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Board18 Overview

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.

Note that game boxes are no longer included in the Download ZIP file. This is due to file size considerations.
Game boxes must be downloaded and added to a BOARD18 web site. Follow these instructions when you do so.

Board18 Releases

Unless you have a good reason not to, please use the most current BOARD18 release or the Current Stable Release.
Please contact Rich Price, rich at board18.org, if you have questions about installing BOARD18 on your server.
Please report any issues with BOARD18 or the BOARD18 install process here.


Release 2.4.3

Implemented Issue 68 - Collapse Help menu.

If you are upgrading from a release prior to 2.4.0, please see this Release 2.4.0 Upgrade Note

Download: Media:Board18-2.4.3.zip

Installation instructions for this release are available at How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site.

Release 2.4.2

Implemented Issue 51 - Provide unlimited tile counts.
Fixed Issue 66 - Positioning problem with token select menu.
Fixed Issue 67 - New "Useful Links" capability incompatible with snap shots.

If you are upgrading from a release prior to 2.4.0, please see this Release 2.4.0 Upgrade Note

Download: Media:Board18-2.4.2.zip

Installation instructions for this release are available at How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site.

Release 2.4.0

Implemented Issue 61 - Correctly rout replies to administrative messages.
Sorted player display in board18Misc.php and board18New.php.
Revised the enhanced display of players names on the left side of board18Misc.php and board18New.php.
Also upgraded player's guide to release 2.4.x.

If you are upgrading to release 2.4.0, please see this Release 2.4.0 Upgrade Note

Download: Media:Board18-2.4.0.zip

Installation instructions for this release are available at How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site.

Release 2.3.2

Did some preliminary work for Issue 61 - Correctly rout replies to administrative messages.
Also enhanced the display of players on the left side of board18Misc.php and board18New.php.

Download: Media:Board18-2.3.2.zip

Installation instructions for this release are available at How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site.

Release 2.3.1

Implemented Issue 64 "Persistent route to desired page on login"
and fixed documentation in a number of javascript scripts.

Download: Media:Board18-2.3.1.zip

Installation instructions for this release are available at How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site.

Release 2.3.0

Added gimpPythonScripts directory which contains all such scripts.
Revised BOARD18make to eliminate inclusion of any game boxes in .zip file.
Deprecated loadGameBox.php utility. It is no longer needed.

Download: Media:Board18-2.3.0.zip

Installation instructions for this release are available at How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site.

Release 2.2.2 Current Stable Release

Fixed some typos in loadGameBox.php.
Fixed more typos in board18Boxes.php.

Download: Media:Board18-2.2.2.zip

Installation instructions for this release are available at How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site.

Release 2.2.1

Fixed some typos [due to Bug 58 fix] in log notes.
Fixed misrouting of game box load messages in board18BoxLoad.php.
Fixed two typos in board18Boxes.php.
Upgraded the doLogNote(note) function to handle NULL BD18.welcomename.

Download: Media:Board18-2.2.1.zip

Installation instructions for this release are available at How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site.

Release 2.2.0

Fixed Bug 58 - The doLogNote(note) function is not always used.
Implemented Issue 27 Part 5 - Provide a tool for loading a game box from a zip file.
And also make some minor edits that prepare for the removal of jqueryMigrate package from BOARD18.

Download: Media:Board18-2.2.0.zip

Installation instructions for this release are available at How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site.