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1.About

Current Version of sfourmi: 0.41 révision 0 (September,11.2001)

Previous release (stable) : 0.37 révision 50 (mars,6.2001)

Copyright SFourmi Group.


2.Authors

The Sfourmi Program has be written by two students Michel Tran Ngoc (T&T) and Manik Bhattacharjee (aka Kinam) since february,17.2000 with the help of FL (optimizations) and TATMF (graphics). See members for more information.


3. Licence

You can use the binary release of this program and give it for free but you are not allowed to open it for editing and modifying, to remove the readme file and/or the authors' names, to use the images and screenshots without asking the authors an authorization. (sfourmi.log@online.fr, manik-fourmi@altern.org, tatmf@club-internet.fr.


4. NON WARRANTY

BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

5. INSTALLATION

-You should have at least a 586-133Mhz with some disk space (about 2Mb) and a lot of RAM.(128Mb recommanded)

-You should have

*Microsoft Windows(tm) 95 or highter with DirectX installed( >5)

*Linux or xBSD with GTK(1.2.8) and gtk-pixbuf(>0.9)

WINDOWS :

Just create a directory and copy the two mains executables: SFourmi.exe and SfSetup.exe.

Run SfSetup at least one time and configure the initial values.

That's all ! Run SFourmi for the simulation

LINUX :

Just create a directory and copy the two mains executables: GTKFourmi and SfSetup.exe.(you need wine to use this win32 program until I get a GTKFSetup)

Run SfSetup at least one time and configure the initial values.

That's all ! Run ./SFourmi for the simulation

NOTES:

The port of Sfourmi under Linux isn't complete. Some fonctions aren't working but the simulation is OK.


6. What is/is not SFourmis ?

-Sfourmi is NOT a game. It could be as fun as game but the interactivity is limited. Maybe, it will become a true game in the near future. :-p

-SFourmi IS a simulation of artificial life that tries to simulates a real ant's life by copying the reality. Each ant is self-dependant and can communicate with others.


7. Keys, Actions and Informations.

F1 Informations about the Authors, the version.
F2 Go inside the nest.
F3 Focus on the nest's main entrance.
F4 Enable/Disable the mini-map.
F5 Focus on the selected ant.
F9 Save the map and its ants.
F11-F12 Change the colony.
V Enable/Disable the violent mode (Ants kill their ennemies)
S Show/Hide the statistics
T Enable/Disable Turbo mode.
Arrows move on the map. You can move by clicking on the mini-map, too.

Screen:

Each ant is in a circle that shows (by its color) in which colony it lives.

Arrows on the ground represent the pheromons.

Rose/blue pheromon

Danger pheromon


8. Good test ! And don't hesitate to report problems, bugs, notes that you keep in mind !

Last Update:

10/21/2002