I've made a blue and white board based on a mix of the one used at GammOnLine (http://www.gammonline.com) and my own settings for gnubg. There's also precision dice ;)
Below is a screenshot, and I've attached the full folder zipped just below.
After unzipping simply add this folder to your existing Boards folder.
This is now version 2 (http://www.fibsboard.com/index.php?showtopic=402&view=findpost&p=3731) of the Blue & White board.
:D Thankyou.. thankyou and thankyou alef, i have been waiting a long time for a new javafibs board and you have produced a fantastic board for us fibsters.. thanks alef and may i have many a winning game on my new backgammon board..
thanks again alef.... from gogogiz
:D
i would love to try it - but i cant unzip stuff :( And sooo wanted to try those precision dice!! :)
Really nice Board
I love it :hart:
Wanna play :jump:
First Match with it, First win :P
I think I will keep it :agree:
Quotei would love to try it - but i cant unzip stuff
Hmm. How did you manage to "install" JavaFIBS if you can't unzip? You can try http://www.winzip.com/ (http://www.winzip.com/) for an unzipper. I think you can still use a free trial for it.
http://www.7-zip.org/ (http://www.7-zip.org/)
Better, open, free
QuoteHow did you manage to "install" JavaFIBS if you can't unzip
That is an interesting story :)
I had winzip, and installed java, then my son downloaded something else - which stoppped winzip working (and java properly). Webrunner helped me get rid of that, but now i still cant unzip stuff - and since last time everything went belly up - havent had the heart to go trying to get it again - in fact i havent been able to download stuff for ages now - so cant get all the good stuff like netscape that i wanted. This is a very unhappy machine :( I put off doing anything about it, short term, based on that dream i have of getting a better one quite soon. :D
Zipgenius is nice too.. a little bit more userfriendly for beginners.
And some nice extra tools like a password manager and ftp client.
http://www.zipgenius.it/index_eng.htm (http://www.zipgenius.it/index_eng.htm)
Loads of features like multiple zip open enad transferring files from one zip to another, (look here) (http://www.webalice.it/zipgenius/shots/image2.png), connect to virusscanner, backup, etc. etc.
And..... free! :jump:
ok, thx once again folks - http://www.7-zip.org (http://www.7-zip.org) worked a treat - and i can now unzip stuff!! I have the board - off to see what else i have lying around that needs unzipping :)
I've been tweaking my Blue & White board for a while and now have put up version 2 for download (http://www.fibsboard.com/index.php?showtopic=402&view=findpost&p=2732). Changes:
- textured background
- undo arrow in middle
- narrower bar
- shadows in same direction
- piece edges smoother
- pieces and points align better
i'd always installed your board...
when i set up a new windows i first only had the standard-boards of javafibs. and i lost nearly every match...
when i loaded your skin again my bad luck was broken :D
it's the best!!
I have taken Alef's good-looking board and just increased it in size about a factor of 1.4. That size seems good to me. I've called it big_alef and attached is a zip file containing the files needed. Obviously you can name it whatever you please, but it is still Alef's design.
Nice work, Alef!
I have made a further mod to Alef's board. I found that the points weren't contrasting enough for me, so I darkened the dark ones. If anyone wants, I can zip up the whole shebang again. For some reason, just using the background.png won't work correctly. Somehow the board got shifted by 3 pixels in both x and y directions, so the normal.metrics and reverse.metrics files had to be adjusted accordingly. It might have something to do with having to export the new file out of Gimp, but I'm not sure. I am a new Gimp user and haven't figured out how to use all the features yet.
I redid the board from my previous post so that the original .metrics files would work. If you downloaded what I called alef_big, you can use this background.png in its place.