WWWTrax - Development Version - Information

You're welcome to try using the development version yourselves, and you may even find it fixes a few bugs in the normal one, but don't be at all surprised if it contains all sorts of debugging information, crashes fairly frequently, detects wins when it shouldn't, etc etc.

Things I'm working on NOW...

• Firstly, I'm converting it from C to perl. This will theoretically make it a bit slower, but I do most of my development in perl these days and basically it'll be easier for me. Having said it'll be slower, SOME of the built-in perl functions are extremely well written, and some of the nice searching and hashing algorythms are bound to be faster than my own hand-written C ones, because I wasn't putting much effort into them. You'll probably not notice any serious speed changes anyway, because the main bottleneck is in the internet, not on my server :-)

  I'm not porting my C version, I'm starting again from scratch, and I'm writing it the way I feel happiest after everything I learnt from the C version, if you see what I mean.

• Most important of all, ZERO NOTATION is going to be in the perl version! I'm writing this
• Provide some nicer way of selecting the move that you want. the "LSR" stuff was a bit ugly, and "/-\" isn't much better.
• sort of replacement for traxfig where you type the moves into a box to see them. This will probably be a separate program that converts the moves into the URL for WWWTrax itself and takes you there.

Things I plan to add or fix later

• Options like tile size, looptrax, stdtrax.
• Make move table more compact?
• Play against other people
  • Store moves on my server
  • Password protection
  • Submitting moves
  • Some way to wait for other player(s) to make moves
  • Challenging system
  • Some way to inform unconnected players that they've been challenged.
  • Some way for players to indicate when they're on the web to play "real-time"
  • Messaging system so players can taunt each other
• Play against an AI or 2?
• Optional frames support?
• Traxlink support?
• Partial integration with Richard's PBeMserv in some way?