
    Welcome to DINGUX GNU Chess

Original Authors of GNU Chess

  Chua Kong Sian, Stuart Cracraft, Lukas Geyer,
  Simon Waters, David A. Wheeler.


Author of the DINGUX port version 

  Ludovic.Jacomme also known as Zx-81 (zx81.zx81@gmail.com)


1. INTRODUCTION
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  GNU Chess was written in 1986 by Stuart Cracraft, who is continuing to
  develop it with other coders.  It comes with an interface to the X 
  window system to display a pretty chessboard.  It also has an opening 
  book which is being added to all the time.

  (see http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/chess/)

  DINGUX Gnu Chess is a port on DINGUX of the version 5.7 of GNU-Chess
  with my UI developped initially for PSP and WIZ.

  Special thanks to Yiorgos for his feedback.

  Skins were designed by NinJato, big thanks to him.

  This package is under GPL Copyright, read COPYING file for
  more information about it.


2. INSTALLATION
   ------------

  Unzip the zip file, and copy the content of the local directory to your
  SD memory card.

  For any comments or questions on this version, please visit 
  http://zx81.zx81.free.fr or http://zx81.dcemu.co.uk


3. CONTROL
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3.1 - Virtual keyboard

  In the chess menu, press Start to open/close
  the On-Screen Keyboard of "Danzel" and "Jeff Chen"

  Use Analog stick to choose one of the 9 squares, and
  use A, B, X, Y to choose one of the 4 letters of the 
  highlighted square.

  You can use this keyboard to specify game filename ...


3.2 - Game Control

  In the game window you have the following mapping :

  B           Valid 
  Y           Undo
 
  Cursor      Move on the board
  Select      Menu
  L/R Trigger Display status

4. SKINS
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  You can design your own skins or modify existing ones.
  All you have to do is to create a new folder in skins directory.
  This folder can then contain :
  . a file skin.cfg describing the RGB colors you want. 
    You just have to edit this file using your favorite text editor.
  . png files for each chess piece (29x29)
  . png files for background, board (320x240) etc ...

  You're not obliged to put all png. If a file is missing then it
  loads the corresponding file in the default skin folder.


5. COMPILATION
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  It has been developped under Linux FC9 using gcc with DINGUX SDK. 
  All tests have been done using a Dingoo with Dingux installed
  To rebuild the homebrew run the Makefile in the src archive.


6. How to play Chess ? 
   ------------

  Have a look to the manual on Wikipedia:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess


    Enjoy,
  
         Zx
