This is connect6-ng, a fork of connect6 project. The project aims at improving the old project in several aspects.

Please refer to www.connect6.org for general information on the connect6 game.

The recommended way to use connect6-ng is building from the source code. You need prepare git, JDK, ant, findbugs to begin the journey.

First you should clone the repository by git:

git clone https://code.google.com/p/connect6-ng/

Then cd into the directory connect6-ng on your local machine. To build and run the game from the source, simply type:

ant run

in your terminal's prompt line.

Alternatively, if you get the jar archive, simply type

java -jar connect6-ng-XXX.jar

(where XXX should be replaced by the real version) or double click its icon in your file manager. That should be enough.

The old connect6 project's svn history has been converted to git style by git-svn. Also the historical log is linked with the current project's tree by git-replace. However, git clone and simple git pull won't download the old history. To get it, add this line into origin section in the file .git/config:

fetch = +refs/replace/*:refs/replace/*

Then run git pull. Hopefully you can see the longer history.