HISTORY OF KsirKhttps://apps.kde.org/ksirkI started this game during 1995 (?) in order to learn C++ and Windows 95 programming.It was initialy named "Risk". I used a book about WinG, one of the first Microsoftattempts to give gaming abilities to Windows. But a lot of the examples of this bookwere in assembler, that I never learned :-( I used these routines but whithout beingable to fully understand them. This first version never got an acceptable status.Some time later I heard from Java and decided to learn it. So, I decided to convertRisk to JRisk. I obtained, if I remember well, a version that was running not so bad,but really slowly.That was due to the use of an early version of Java but also toa really uggly programming.In the meantime, for my work, I learned Smalltalk (VisualWorks), THE OO language (tryit, you really cannot experience higher OO programming pleasure ; I was an addict)and sodiscovered all the power of good OOP. I started also to use Linux and KDE. I wantedto learn KDE programming and so decided to convert back my lovely project to C++ !KRisk was born ! But with my experience of Smalltalk and the APIs of Qt and KDE, mywork has been, I think, quite better.At the time of 04/24/2002, some architectural problems due to this complex historyremained, but it worked good and I think I could release a public version. I choosed torename it in order to avoid copyright problems : welcome to KsirK !In early 2003, the evolution continued with a minimal AI (for Artificial Idiot as itsdecisions were chosen completly at random) and the themability of the world.This last point is a direct consequence of the improvements of the overallarchitecture of the game.In parallel, the online tools linked to the game continued to improve: with thisversion appeared a mailing list and a CVS repository!INSTALLATIONPlease read INSTALLUSING KsirKPlease read tooltips on buttons, the statusbars and the KsirK HTML manual.- map scrolling : place your mouse near a window border or use your mouse wheel  (with the Alt modifier for horizontal scrolling)- armies distribution : Left-click to put an army, Right-click to remove one- to setup a move or an attack, click and drag from the source country to the  target oneCONTACTmailto:kleag@free.fr