the bridge card game on linux

pan64 · 02-10-2022, 05:36 AM

Hi,
do you know any bridge double dummy solver or offline board game or anything similar running on linux (not wine).

onebuck · 02-10-2022, 08:46 AM

Hi,

Just did a DDG search; https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+bridge...297-5__&ia=web

Looks like several choices.

pan64 · 02-10-2022, 09:05 AM

the first one was a collection of wine + exe, the second one was a 404, the next one is just "a collection of decks of playing cards made with the SVG format." The following ones are quite similar, links to abandoned apps, window apps and almost-related apps.
So actually it is not that easy.
What I found is: https://github.com/dds-bridge/dds, but it is not a complete solution, and an exe: https://www.bridgecaptain.com/downloadDD.html
That's why I'm looking for a real native linux one. (interesting I can easily find apps for smartphones).

enigma9o7 · 02-10-2022, 10:57 AM

How about pybridge? It's in debian buster... I quickly tried it, no single player mode, seems someone needs to run pybridge-server; so doesn't meet your offline requirements.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

(interesting I can easily find apps for smartphones).

You're probably not interested - but just incase, if you're using wayland, you could try waydroid to run android apps, if there is an android version you like.

pan64 · 02-10-2022, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enigma9o7

How about pybridge? It's in debian buster... I quickly tried it, no single player mode, seems someone needs to run pybridge-server; so doesn't meet your offline requirements.

Yes, pybridge is a candidate, I need to rework it a bit to connect to dds via python-dds. It could be challenging.

Quote:

Originally Posted by enigma9o7

You're probably not interested - but just incase, if you're using wayland, you could try waydroid to run android apps, if there is an android version you like.

Yes, wayland on debian 11. waydroid is new to me, so I need to check it. Anyway, thanks for the tip.

ondoho · 02-11-2022, 12:26 PM

This is in the AUR:

Code:

1) aur/bcalc 16.05.0-1 (4, 0.00)
    Double-dummy solver for bridge (the card game).
2) aur/dealer 20040530-5 (4, 0.00)
    generate bridge cards game hands for partnerships bidding training or for generating
    statistics that can be used to design conventions, or win postmortems
...
$ pikaur -Si bcalc
AUR Git URL     : https://aur.archlinux.org/bcalc.git
Name            : bcalc
Package Base    : bcalc
Version         : 16.05.0-1
Description     : Double-dummy solver for bridge (the card game).
URL             : http://www.bcalc.w8.pl
Keywords        : None
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : lua52, qt5-base
Optional Deps   : None
Make Deps       : None
Check Deps      : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Maintainer      : anntzer
Votes           : 4
Popularity      : 0
First Submitted : Tue Jan 29 17:22:23 2008
Last Updated    : Mon Jun 27 08:06:37 2016

pan64 · 02-12-2022, 12:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

This is in the AUR:

Wow, thanks

syg00 · 02-12-2022, 03:32 AM

Be interested to hear your opinion of the tools. I long ago gave up looking. I use a commercial app on Android that I had been using for decades on Windows - took a while to get to Android, but it helps me pass the time on a train or anytime waiting (coffee shops, doctors, whatever).

pan64 · 02-12-2022, 04:19 AM

This is a solver, and actually I was looking for a solver. This aur looks quite good, although probably I would like to see the source and some improvements.
I don't know the quality of the solver (right now), but looks promising.
For playing I use BBO and Bridge V+ from ZingMagic on android, which is not that good, but playable on a train or anytime waiting (if I'm all alone).

pan64 · 11-23-2023, 12:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarmaer

This is the first time I've heard of this game

that is an old software, not really improved since 2015, payware and runs only on windows (and does not work offline).