Original game imageAbout
Minesweeper is a logic puzzle genre in which players clear a grid of tiles without detonating hidden mines, using numeric clues about the number of mines neighboring each safe tile. xminesweep is an X11 Minesweeper clone by Ashley Roll, version 3.1 from January 1993, distributed as fully self-contained source requiring no external data files; it was built and tested on Sun series 4 machines running X11R5.
How it differs from the original
The game includes an optional cheat mode — triggered by a Ctrl-Shift-C key sequence, or removable at compile time via the CHEAT_OK define — that reveals a mine-free square to help start a game, which is not a standard feature of Minesweeper.
Getting started
Build with Imake ('xmkmf && make install && make install.man') or by renaming Makefile.normal to Makefile and running make; consult the included man page for usage details.
Known issues & limitations
- compatibility: Known problem on SUN 3/60 where mouse clicks always expose the bottom right square regardless of click position.
- On a SUN 3/60, mouse clicks always expose the bottom-right square instead of the clicked square — the author suspects an X library issue.
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