Njudge
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In computing
, Njudge is an implementation of a Diplomacy
adjudicator, receiving orders and sending messages and results via email
.
It works on a variety of Linux
and Unix
platforms.
Njudge was originally written in the late 1980s by Ken Lowe as a project to learn C
as well as to serve local interest in Diplomacy. It then expanded and was installed on several servers internationally. With the advent of free email access for all, its use has boomed and the most active judge has in excess of 10,000 registered players and more than 100 games active at any one time.
It is an email
based system, and uses its own special syntax for commands, surrounded by a signon/signoff sequence, with a password verifying the user. No web interface at present exists, although there does exist Alain Tésio's mapping service that uses a modified mapit program to interpret move results onto a graphical map.
Commands not only allow orders for units to be made but messages to be sent to other players. A master is normally also appointed (usually the creator of the game) who can use a whole set of special commands to alter game parameters.
Many different variants, both of rules and of maps are also implemented. Among this are Modern, Youngstown, and Colonial Diplomacy. In addition, Njudge supports the play of Machiavelli Diplomacy, a game similar to standard Diplomacy but with significant rule changes.
The code is free for non-commercial use, and players of judges are not charged for their use, so that a steady increase has been seen both in the judges and the players that use them.
Ken Lowe's original Judge software had been written as a project to help him learn to program in C. As a result, other programmers who saw the code, while thrilled that it worked, were somewhat less glowing in their praise of the quality of the coding. Eventually some of them undertook to rewrite the code more elegant.
The name Njudge comes from the fact that the person to start the process of re-writing Ken Lowe's original C code was Nathan Wagner of Madison, WI. He called it njudge to distinguish it from the original Judge software which Ken Lowe had written.
Some of this can be read at:
http://devel.diplom.org/Zine/S2002R/Miller/What_is_njudge.html
Computing
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, Njudge is an implementation of a Diplomacy
Diplomacy (game)
Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases and the absence of dice or other game elements that produce random effects...
adjudicator, receiving orders and sending messages and results via email
Email
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
.
It works on a variety of Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
and Unix
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
platforms.
Njudge was originally written in the late 1980s by Ken Lowe as a project to learn C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
as well as to serve local interest in Diplomacy. It then expanded and was installed on several servers internationally. With the advent of free email access for all, its use has boomed and the most active judge has in excess of 10,000 registered players and more than 100 games active at any one time.
It is an email
Email
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
based system, and uses its own special syntax for commands, surrounded by a signon/signoff sequence, with a password verifying the user. No web interface at present exists, although there does exist Alain Tésio's mapping service that uses a modified mapit program to interpret move results onto a graphical map.
Commands not only allow orders for units to be made but messages to be sent to other players. A master is normally also appointed (usually the creator of the game) who can use a whole set of special commands to alter game parameters.
Many different variants, both of rules and of maps are also implemented. Among this are Modern, Youngstown, and Colonial Diplomacy. In addition, Njudge supports the play of Machiavelli Diplomacy, a game similar to standard Diplomacy but with significant rule changes.
The code is free for non-commercial use, and players of judges are not charged for their use, so that a steady increase has been seen both in the judges and the players that use them.
Ken Lowe's original Judge software had been written as a project to help him learn to program in C. As a result, other programmers who saw the code, while thrilled that it worked, were somewhat less glowing in their praise of the quality of the coding. Eventually some of them undertook to rewrite the code more elegant.
The name Njudge comes from the fact that the person to start the process of re-writing Ken Lowe's original C code was Nathan Wagner of Madison, WI. He called it njudge to distinguish it from the original Judge software which Ken Lowe had written.
Some of this can be read at:
http://devel.diplom.org/Zine/S2002R/Miller/What_is_njudge.html