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RiskPlayers is a bunch of additional computer player modules for the famous Risk.app (by Mike Ferris). While the players are still not strong enough to pose as ferocious enemies they do enhance the variety of different types of computer animated players. Still, a slightly experienced player will not have too much trouble winning. The status of the implemented players is experimental, though stable enough to not crash too often (alpha tested by Donald A. Yacktman <don@misckit.com>, thanks). Current implementation does not even reflect the described strategy, but surprise might add to the fun. Haudruf: I inherited the basic implementation together with my version of Risk.app I think. Sources are included, hope that is ok with the original author. 'Haudruf' is kind of german, meaning something like 'going berserk'. That pretty much describes the implemented strategy. Coop: in a way is intended to be cooperative, whatever that means. This is not following the mathematical definition of cooperative as used in game theory. Block: A refinement of Coop, currently my strongest player. Together with Strat (by Royce Howland royce@splunge.uucp, kakwa!atlantis!splunge!royce) the two opponents make interesting games. Software comes as is, GPL copyleft should apply where no other copyright holds. I have no intention to refine the players or invent new strategies but Don convinced me to share the results anyway. It was fun for a couple of days to hack along. If you use these as basis for further development I would sure like to know. Winter 1995, Juergen Sell js@icem.de [Note that the source code is inside each .cp wrapper. Since the sources are so short, it probably doesn't matter much if you keep them around. If you're really pressed for disk space, you can delete the source code and thin the binaries down... -Don Yacktman]
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.