Sudoku Portable 1.1.7 Released (Updated)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on August 22, 2006 - 12:47pm

Sudoku logoSudoku Portable 1.1.7 has been released. For the unfamiliar, Sudoku Portable is the wildly popular puzzle game packaged as a portable app, so you can play on any PC. It has multiple difficulty levels, automatically saves your game and more. It'll even run from a CDROM. Read on for all the details...

Sudoku Features

Sudoku Portable has several great features making game play even more fun:

  • Four difficulty levels (Easy, Medium, Hard and Impossible)
  • Entry of possible solutions for empty boxes (hold down shift and a number from the standard number row, not the numeric keypad)
  • Automatic saving of your game on exit
  • "Check Game" feature to check your current work
  • "Solve Game" feature so you can see the solution to the current puzzle
  • Resizable interface, so you can make the numbers as large as you'd like

Portable App Fetaures

Live/CD & Read-Only USB Support - Sudoku Portable supports running from a CD or other read-only media right out of the box, making it even easier to carry with you and use on other systems. Just be sure to run it once before burning it to CD. Full details are in the support topic on Running from a CD.

In-Place Upgrades - Sudoku Portable supports the ability to do what we're calling an "in-place upgrade". This means that you can extract it right over an existing installation of Sudoku Portable without losing any of your settings or saved games and it'll Just Work.

Partial WINE Support - Sudoku Portable support installation and use within WINE under Linux/UNIX. Your settings and game will not be saved, though.

Grab a Copy

The new release of Sudoku Portable is available for immediate download from the Sudoku Portable homepage.

Updated: August 22, 2006

An updated version was posted that fixes a bug where you could edit the read-only cells.

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Comments

yey! sudoku on usb!

sudoku is one of d games of my symbian... trial though

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I can see this becoming a permanent addition to my pendrive!

The WINE support under Linux works a treat, as I'm not too fussed about saving games - I like to solve them straightaway. Smile

sgt99999

September 2, 2006 - 10:59am

John, great job! Do you think in a future release you could add the ability to enter a puzzle? I would like to use the program to work on puzzles from the news paper. Thanks for all your hard work.

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Ryan McCue

September 2, 2006 - 7:48pm

Well, although John didn't make this, he did fix some things, so it might be possible for him.
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John T. Haller

September 3, 2006 - 12:41pm

It's programmed in C and all the source is included. It uses the lightweight FLTK toolkit (which is pretty cool) and the code isn't that hard to read. Perhaps someone could come up with an edit mode and submit a patch. Drop a note in the forum if you can.

I made some minor changes... mainly to remove the sound (which had issues on some older OSes and required a closed source DLL), update the help file about shift and number keys, and indicate that it's a modified version.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

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Ryan McCue

September 5, 2006 - 3:16am

Steve and/or I could have a look at it.
Edit: Looks complicated. Mind you, I've only looked at the FLTK source Wink
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R McCue
PortaBlog Home and My Website
And before anyone complains about the grammar, I'm so jetlagged that my
hands aren't even in the same time zone...

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

thanks john you've made my wife happy she loves the game plays all the time

if you don't know-ee you should ASCII

splattymelt

September 7, 2006 - 5:43pm

had problems with this game? It runs fine, but often the game has multiple solutions, which makes it not a true Sudoku. Anyone else have this problem?

thanks