Features and Requirements

Welcome To The BOARD18 Project

This page has been updated to comply with Release 1.4.x of BOARD18.

BOARD18 is a tool for playing “18xx style” games via Email.

The BOARD18 game session associated with a PBEM game is used to display the game board and the stock market for the game. It will run as a web service accessed via the player's web browser.
The How To page linked to here contains step by step instructions for setting up a PBEM 18xx game.

BOARD18 is open source software available under the MIT License

Please click here to help support the BOARD18 Project.

NOTE: For more information on 18xx style games, see this wikipedia article.

Features

BOARD18 allows multiple players to access a game board and an associated stock market chart and to place, move and delete track tiles and other tokens as required by the game being played.

Supported features include:

• Player registration and log in
• Admin level with special privileges.
• Mid level security [encrypted passwords]
• Game session creation form
• The play of multiple concurent games
• Context menus
• Hot keys for many game actions
• A snapshot facility
• Concurrent update protection
• Support for all [I hope] current browser releases.
• Limited support for iPad and Android devices.

BOARD18 game boxes can be created for various 18xx games and loaded into the database on the server.

Requirements

BOARD18 is a web application that has both client side requirements and server side requirements.
These requirements are discussed separately.

The BOARD18 server requires:

• An Apache web server
• MySQL version 5.5 or later
• PHP version 5.3 or later

The BOARD18 client requires a web browser that supports:

• HTML5 [including Canvas]
• CSS 3
• The JavaScript standard referred to as ECMAScript 5

NOTE: most current web browsers meet the above requirements.

Lacks

Currently BOARD18 does not have:

• A complete set of game box creation tools. But a partial set does exist.
• The ability to back out an accepted move.
• The ability to zoom in or out while viewing the game board. Though this works with some iPad and Android devices.