About Pasang Emas

Pasang is a traditional game of Brunei.

In this game, black and white tokens are arranged on a playing board, forming a pattern. There is a catalogue of more than 30 different patterns. Many of these patterns resemble embroideries commonly seen on kain songket or kain tenun, Brunei's traditional cloth.

Two players take turn capturing these tokens, scoring 1 point for each black token and 2 points for each white one. The game ends when the board is empty, or when a player runs out of moves.

Pasang is commonly played during celebrations of royal weddings and the annual birthday festival of the Sultan of Brunei.

Pasang Emas brings this unique game to your computer.

More stuff on Pasang Emas:

• Learn how to play Pasang Emas.

Download

Pasang Emas is available under the GPLv3 license. You are free to use, modify and distribute it for any purpose (including commercial). But you are not free to deny this same freedom to other users.

• Download the source code (in tar.bz2 format). Untar and read the README file for installation instruction.

  

• (Optional) Download two additional themes. Untar and read the README file for installation instruction.

  

• (Optional) Download marble theme. Untar and then either
   $su
 #cp -r marble `pasang-emas --themes-path`
  or
   $cp -r marble your-home-directory/.pasang-emas/themes

  

Supported Platforms

Pasang Emas is developed and tested on Debian stable. We restrict our choice of software libraries to those found in the stable repository. Given the conservativeness of Debian stable, Pasang Emas should compile and run on practically all the latest Linux distros.

Pasang Emas should also compile and run on BSD and Hurd, though we haven't confirmed this yet.

Acknowledgements

Mohd Abdoh bin Haji Awang Damit of Jabatan Kokurikulum, Brunei, first suggested the idea of developing a computer program to play pasang. Jabatan Muzium-Muzium Brunei published a book, Mari Bermain Pasang, which is a great source of reference. Unfortunately, the book is vague and incomplete in some places. Pg Haji Ismail bin Pg Ibrahim of Jabatan Muzium-Muzium Brunei, helped clarify the rules of pasang, lent a pasang set (a board, tokens, and pattern cards), and verified an initial implementation of Pasang Emas.

Contact Address

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norjaidi.tuahQQ@ubdXeduXbn
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