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HexGui is a modified version of the application GoGui, for the game Hex. It was created mainly to have a Windows version of the open source engine [[Six]] (originally a KDE-Application by Gábor Melis).
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HexGui is an application by [[Broderick Arneson]] to display a Hex game board, keep track of a game tree (a sequence of moves with variations), load and save games, attach a Hex strategy engine, and debug it. HexGui is written in Java and works on any operating system. HexGui can connect to any Hex strategy engine that supports the [[GTP]] protocol.
  
GoGui is a tool for Go programmers and players, to display Go game trees, save them in .sgf format, attach an engine and debug it (analyze mode). Also some smaller non-GUI tools like TwoGtp (test two engines against each other) are included. GoGui is an open source application, written in Java, by Markus Enzenberger.
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== History ==
  
In HexGui, some features were removed (e.g. "set up" a position), and tools like TwoGtp may be untested, but could quite easily be made working again.
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HexGui is a modified version of the open source application [http://gogui.sourceforge.net/ GoGui] written in Java by Markus Enzenberger.  
  
Link: [http://mgame99.mg.funpic.de/hex.php HexGui homepage]
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== Availability ==
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HexGui is no longer available from its original [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~broderic/hex/ download site].
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A more recent version is available from [https://github.com/selinger/hexgui GitHub].
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== Other software with the same name ==
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There was also another program named HexGui and derived from GoGui, which used to be available from [http://mgame99.mg.funpic.de/hex.php HexGui homepage]. However, that link is now broken.
  
References:
 
http://gogui.sourceforge.net/,
 
http://six.retes.hu/
 
  
'''Note:''' There is also another program named HexGui and derived from GoGui. This program is the GUI that the authors of [[MoHex|Mohex]] and [[Wolve]] recommend on [http://benzene.sourceforge.net/ their web page]. It is available at http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~broderic/hex/
 
  
 
[[Category:Computer Hex]]
 
[[Category:Computer Hex]]

Revision as of 18:07, 1 March 2020

HexGui is an application by Broderick Arneson to display a Hex game board, keep track of a game tree (a sequence of moves with variations), load and save games, attach a Hex strategy engine, and debug it. HexGui is written in Java and works on any operating system. HexGui can connect to any Hex strategy engine that supports the GTP protocol.

History

HexGui is a modified version of the open source application GoGui written in Java by Markus Enzenberger.

Availability

HexGui is no longer available from its original download site. A more recent version is available from GitHub.

Other software with the same name

There was also another program named HexGui and derived from GoGui, which used to be available from HexGui homepage. However, that link is now broken.