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Manual dice input utilities for XG and GnuBG

Posted By: MK
Date: Wednesday, 7 May 2025, at 7:26 p.m.

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.

Anothe 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 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.