# Introduction
W.R. Hutsell's classic VGA Civil War Strategy Game, updated to run on Windows (and Mac and Linux, theoretically), by using QB64. Collaborators welcome!

If you are interested in playing the updated Civil War Strategy Game or any of Mr. Hutsell's other games, we recommend visiting the [official site](https://hutsellgames.com/) where the games have been released for free and full documentation is available!

# Licensing
Civil War Strategy is licensed under the permissive MIT license, however some third part components utilized by CWS are licensed under other various licenses (perhaps most notably, the LGPL). Please see the vendor-licenses folder for additional details.

# We Use...
## Programming Languages
* Original: [QuickBasic, PDS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickBASIC)
* Current: [QB64](https://www.qb64.org/)
## Tools
* [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) - Our primary code editor.
* [Notepad++](https://notepad-plus-plus.org/) - Okay, we use VSC primarily now, but Notepad++ still finds it uses and is just an awesome app all around.
* [Deark](http://entropymine.com/deark/) - Allows us to convert the original memory dump images to more current formats, e.g. PNG or JPEG.
* [Crimson Editor](http://www.crimsoneditor.com/) - Helpful when initially converting the files as the source code contained OEM characters which isn't shown correctly by most software and can wreak havoc in the code.
