glGo

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Summary

PANDA-glGo is a 3D and 2D Goban, game viewer, game editor, and client for IGS and interface for GNU Go. It is currently the most attractive and versatile client made specifically for use with IGS. Textures and sound samples help provide a more realistic goban experience.

http://chiyodad.port5.com/img/glgo_sample_050722a.png

Screen capture of glGo with custom [ext] tatami background - Courtesy of ChiyoDad.

Latest Version: July 2005

[ext] PANDA-glGo is now up to version 1.3. Its features include:

  • A fancy 3D goban display. The board can be rotated and zoomed
  • A classic 2D goban display
  • [ext] Customizable backgrounds and textures
  • Support for GNU Go over GTP
  • Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux
  • Loads and saves SGF files
  • Loads UGF files and the PandaNet? mail magazine games
  • Loads Ishi files
  • Loads games in the Jago XML file format
  • SGF game editing
  • Two different game tree displays
  • A player database tool implemented as Python plugin
  • A standalone manager for the player and games database
  • A converter for UGF to SGF format
  • A converter for Ishi to SGF format

glGo is written in C++ and Python and based on wxWidgets, OpenGL and SDL.


Enhancements

  • Free and ready-to-use PNG background images for glGo can be found at the [ext] CLG File Library.

History

PANDA-glGo was formerly known as glGo, an open source software. For those that are still interested, the open source version of glGo is still available at [ext] Sourceforge.

Notes on the old open source version

It seems that the sources to this software are no longer made available since its website was moved to the IGS server.

The old version was under GPL, but the author of the code can re-license at will. If the last free glGo contained no code contributed from others, the relicensing is perfectly legal.

The "sources" link does not give glGo sources. It gives the sources to certain libraries used, combined with compiled object files of glGo, which are being provided to comply with the libraries' licenses.


This is a copy of the living page "glGo" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2005 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
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