MultiGo

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A freeware Windows SGF editor. (Some previous versions were shareware.)

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Features (Version 4.4.4)

  • Custom bookmarks (not supported by SGF) allow to mark and jump to locations in a game
  • Annotations (Good move, Hotspot, Unclear ,...)
  • GnuGo undo
  • Search nodes for name, annotations, text, markers; bookmark findings
  • Easily Video record goban.

(It is not certain if Win98 is still supported[1].)

Features (Version 4.2)

  • Custom bookmarks (not supported by SGF) allow to mark and jump to locations in a game
  • Annotations (Good move, Hotspot, Unclear ,...)
  • GnuGo undo
  • Search nodes for name, annotations, text, markers; bookmark findings

(It is not certain if Win98 is still supported[1].)

Features (Version 3.9)

Platform:

  • Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and up
  • Extremely fast loading and also suitable for older Windows machines
  • Includes English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese packages.

Editing:

  • Supports Undo/Redo for all editing operations
  • Easy to create, change or delete multiple branches, as well as insert sgf-stored branches into the actual game
  • Copy SGF from/to clipboard
  • Branches can have names (node names); these names are used in an optional tiptext window that pops up when several branches can be chosen from to continue
  • Remove custom SGF marks (e.g to get rid of CGoban's CR markers!)

Game viewing:

  • Two modes exist to navigate through branches (Branch mode, Gamme comments mode)
  • Scroll wheel to navigate through moves
  • A slider control for fast navigation
  • Can automatically show branch tip window when facing multiple branches.
  • "Try play" (discard moves if you don't like them) - "tutor play" (you must click on the recorded move to continue - great to review reviews (try to find the move the teacher wants you to find), replay games, test your memory)
  • Remembers previous edit position in a sgf, handy when reloading an sgf
  • Children-style variation viewing (see [ext] http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/user_guide/index.html#variations)
  • Various tree traversing modes

Printing:

  • Prints multiple figures at once, up to 6 figures per page, with dead stones and comments, like a real book
  • User can set title, subtitle and header.

User settings:

  • Flip, rotate, mirror boards
  • Full screen view
  • Customize appearance of board, stones, editing and traverse preferences.
  • Customizable keyboard shortcut, lot's of user settable options
  • Customizable toolbars

Other:

  • Can be used to play with GnuGo
  • Can batch process SGF files, trim tags.
  • Has its own forum

File formats

  • input: SGF (no game collections), MGT, BDX?, NGF, GOS?, GIB, UGF, ( GO/Ishi not really, see:[2])
  • output: SGF
  • export as: picture (JPG/BMP/PNG)

Screen shots

MultiGo Screenshot

Print Preview:

MultiGo Print Preview

Links

[1]: 4.1.2 seems to run OK on Win98SE

[2]: for viewing of Ishi-format files see Multigo/Bugs


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