The Number Race: Download

Version 2.3 Released

31/3/2007: A new version of Number Race (v2.3) is now available in all languages. This version has the following improvements:

The user can now select the initial difficulty level when a child is first registered. This makes it easier to tailor the software to children's initial ability. The updated documentation includes a description of the levels.
Registration screen bugs have now been fixed
Sound bug with Java 5 is now fixed

Languages

The Number Race is currently available in the following languages:

Hungarian and Finnish versions are expected soon. Many thanks to those who have helped to produce translated versions of the French original, by translating and recording the dialog: Bert De Smedt (Dutch), Roland Wilhelm (English), Helga Krinzinger (German), and Josep M. Serra-Grabulosa (Spanish).

Alternative download site

You can also download The Number Race from SourceForge.net.

Other software needed

If your computer does not have the following installed you may need to download them:

A decompression program to unzip the file, eg. Winzip
The Java language

Documentation

Please make sure that you read the documentation which comes with your download!

Operating systems

The current version is optimised for Windows 2000 & XP. Apparently it can be run on a mac from the unix command line, as long as your mac OS includes Java. We hope to have a more user-friendly mac version available at some point. (Note: Having no access to a mac, help with this would be greatly appreciated!)

Support

Please note that the software is provided without user support. Consult the software documentation for installation and use instructions.

Known bugs

The software contains some minor known bugs, which can be viewed in the SourceForge bug database. You may with reports of further bugs, and we will endeavour to fix major bugs where possible. Currently there are no major known bugs.

Further development

The software is written in Java, and is open-source, distributed under the GNU general public license. If you would like to further develop the software, you need to first download the English version source code.

Please note that you are in turn obliged to distribute any developments you make under the conditions of the GNU general public license.

We recommend to inform us that you are developing the software, because she can help you with developer documentation.

The software makes use of two other open-source modules: BeanShell (GNU LPGL), and JMAT (GNU LPGL), as well as selected modules from David Brackeen.

Software License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.