Skat card game

Software Ports
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I am looking for a three player skat game, it has to be free software.

It’s okay if it currently does not run on Haiku, I will port it myself then.

So far I have found LSkat from KDE, but this only supports 2 players.

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C++ check
GPL3 check
FLTK interface - should be portable?

3

THis one looks like it’s CLI, but if you got it going a front-end could be written

4

If you are prepared to look beyond C++ there’s Java

and Python

and C

and … old. Really old

5

Oh wow,
Thanks!

I didn’t find any when searching, and you have 6 here in a short time. :slight_smile:

6

No problem. Searching for obscure information is sort of what I did for a living before I retired.

But I never realized how many SKATeboarding apps existed! It takes patience.

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Ok, the jscat one doesn’t run… despite Java beeing “Portable” it doesn’t like Haiku, okay.

/system/lib/openjdk21/bin/java -jar JSkat-0.23.0-linux.jar 
Mai 10, 2025 2:42:27 PM com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl startup
WARNUNG: Unsupported JavaFX configuration: classes were loaded from 'unnamed module @1dfe2924'
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Haiku is not supported
        at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:195)
        at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.getToolkit(Toolkit.java:232)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:290)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:162)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.startToolkit(LauncherImpl.java:651)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:671)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$2(LauncherImpl.java:196)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583)

The xscat one is not free software it seems, :confused:

EDIT: sk can only be played online, and requires giving people your public ip… not something I can use for a normal user, secureskat needs irc. Hmmm… difficult :smiley:

Mainly want/need a skat that supports an AI player, multiplayer would be “cool” but has to be easy to setup somehow.

8

Using JavaFX is what makes it non-portable, some (a lot of?) porting work would be required to get JavaFX running on Haiku.

9

JSkat is currently using JavaFX, but it is still in the process of migrating. You can try an older version (v0.15.0) from before they switched to JavaFX.