Did you read the instructions? It says there it won't work if you
resize your dice window.
It's not any more funny thing to do than a bot offering a manual
dice rolling feature!
If the bot doesn't cheat, why bother with all that crap features
like manual dice, dice manipulation, etc...??
The idea with the bot offering manual dice function is that any
time the bot has access to upcoming dice, it may be cheating.
When reading from a file, bot can know the upcoming dice. It's
not the same as manual dice. Duh!
MK
On 5/9/2025 4:38 AM, Øystein Schønning-Johansen wrote:
I've tried it out. It "works" but the size of my dice window is bigger so the "click" does not hit
the right dice pair in the window. I thin GNU Backgammon draws the dice window based on the screen
resolution. But the principal works - and it is a funny thing to do. :-)
However - it seems like a pretty similar feature is already available in GNU Backgammon ... let me
check.
Yes!
Settings -> Options...-> Dice (pane) -> read from file (radio button)
When you then click OK it will open a file selection dialog where you can choose a corresponding
file to the dicefile.txt file in your tool.
Thanks for sharing!
-Øystein
fre. 9. mai 2025 kl. 11:49 skrev MK <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Oops. They were in the wrong folder. I corrected it right away.
Try again and enjoy. Thanks for letting me know.
MK
On 5/9/2025 3:39 AM, Øystein Schønning-Johansen wrote:
> The links on the webpage (zip-files) do not work. Dead links.
>
> -Ø
>
> ons. 7. mai 2025 kl. 21:32 skrev MK <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>:
>
> I have created three little utilities that you may find useful.
>
> One reads dice rolls from a text file and passes them to
ExtremeGammon as keyboard inputs
while
> playing in manual dice mode.
>
> Another does the same for GnuBG by sending mouse clicks instead
(since it doesn't accept
keyboard
> input).
>
> And the third one creates text files with dice numbers, in a unique
way, by deriving them
from
> random numbers in the 1-36 range using an array, which may possibly
result in better
"dispersion",
> as well as "distribution", of rolls.
>
> Go to https://montanaonline.net/backgammon/utils.php
<https://montanaonline.net/
backgammon/utils.php> <https://montanaonline.net/backgammon/
<https://montanaonline.net/backgammon/>
> utils.php> to download the ZIP files containing the
> executables, source codes and instructions (they are smaller than 25
Kb each).
>
> From there, you can click on the "Home" icon to explore the rest
of my backgammon site
if you
> want.
>
> MK
>
