Zigc is a client for playing Go (WeiQi) over Internet. Zigc is written in Java. It takes the full advantages of Java. First, Zigc can be run as an applet. Therefore, you can play Go by simply pointing your browser to one of the Go servers on Internet. The size of Zigc applet is relatively small (less than 80K). It takes a minute or so to start Zigc. The advantage of using Zigc this way is that you do not need a client program installed on you computer and you always use the latest version of Zigc. Second, Java is platform independent. Therefore, Zigc should run on any platform that supports Java.  It has been tested on Windows 95 and SGI Irix without any problem.

A few of  Zigc's features include:

• Observe multiple games.
• Play a game while observing games.
• Most commonly used commands can be performed by mouse clicks.
• Alarm clock (No more lost by time).
• User side time counting (No more lost by netlag).
• Automatic answer and shout.

Using Zigc as an Application

If you have Java 1.1 or higher installed on your computer, such as Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) , you can download Zigc and  run it as an application. You start Zigc the same way you run other Java programs. For example, in a DOS window of Windows 95, you type:

            java -cp zigc.jar Zigc
or
            javaw -cp zigc.jar Zigc

These two commands assume you start Zigc from its home directory. Running Zigc as an application will enable certain features that are disabled in the browser due to security limitations on an applet. For example, you can save your game records and your preference settings to files. Also, you can connect to more than one servers.

Download Zigc

 
zigc.zip (180K bytes)