benjamin3344/connect4

A matching software for the boardgame Connect Four

Name

Connect_Four

Inroduction

A simple matching software of boardgame Connect Four running on linux

Operating System

Linux, Mac OS (Terminal), Windows (PowerShell)

Installation

Unzip the projects and running the following two commands:

make -f makefile_server
make -f makefile_client

If you are matching using local area network (LAN), modified the IP address to the server's IP address and port in client.c.

Instructions

Once installation finished, running commands on two terminals respectively on the server and client:

./bin/server
./bin/client

After starting up, the software is initialized and the match started as shown below:

PORT:8888 IP:127.0.0.1
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Connect Four START!......
Client's turn:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
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6 _ _ _ _ _ _ 0 
Server's turn:
1
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6 * _ _ _ _ _ 0 
Client's turn:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
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4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
5 _ _ _ _ _ _ 0 
6 * _ _ _ _ _ 0 
Server's turn:
1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
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5 * _ _ _ _ _ 0 
6 * _ _ _ _ _ 0 

Others

The program was adapted from the Gomoku games: https://github.com/youngyangyang04/Gomoku

The rules were adapted to Connect Four and Game termination process was optimized