Introduction

You've reached the Homepage of software developer John Cheetham. Here you will find some of my programming projects. These are all Open Source. They were developed and tested on Linux but most should work on other platforms too.

News

23rd March 2011
Versions 0.4 of gShogi (the Japanese chess program) and 0.1.4 of gse (shogi usi engine) have been released.
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3rd October 2010
Version 0.3 of gShogi (the Japanese chess program) has been released.
On this version you can play engine vs engine and compare different USI engines.
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13th September 2010
The first version of gse has been released.
gse is a USI shogi engine that runs on Linux and windows.
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20th August 2010
Version 0.2 of gShogi (the Japanese chess program) has been released.
This supports adding USI engines.
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14th July 2010
The first version of gShogi (version 0.1) has been released.
gShogi is a program to play shogi (Japanese chess).
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4th May 2010
Added a Linux Section. More.

27th October 2009
Version 0.1.8 of the Samuel Draughts program has been released.
Click here to find out more.

gShogi - An open source Shogi game for Linux

gShogi is written in Python / PyGTK / C.

Click here to go to the gshogi page

Samuel - An open source Draughts game for Linux

Samuel is written in Python / PyGTK / C++.

Click here to go to the Samuel page

Breakout - An open source breakout game

Breakout is written in Python / PyGame.

Click here to go to the Breakout page

Hangman - An open source hangman game

Hangman is written in Python / PyGTK.

Click here to go to the Hangman page

GetBeeb - An open source program to generate links to BBC audio files

GetBeeb can be useful if your system can't use iPlayer or if it struggles with the BBC website (for example PDAs).

Click here to go to the GetBeeb page

JCPlayer - An open source java audio file player

JCPlayer is written using the java swing classes and will play flac, mp3, ogg and wav files.

Click here to go to the JCPlayer page.