Ya Mancala

This is a maintenance release of YA-Mancala that (hopefully) addresses the proverbial post-release bugs in YA-Mancala v1.0. Attention all board game lovers: here is YA-Mancala v1.0.1 (Yet-Another Mancala). This program is, as the name suggests, an implementation of the classic board game Mancala. For those who don't know the game, it is one of the oldest known board games. It is traditionally played with stones on a carved wooden board, or with a set of cups. The game has very simple rules, so it is easy to learn. But like all good games, there are subtlties of strategy lurking beneath the simplicity. This game is suitable for children of all ages. There are a few other implemenations of Mancala floating around the Net and some of them are cheaper than this one (Shareware Can$10), so you may be asking yourself why you should bother downloading YA-Mancala. Well, quite simply, this program is better (IMHO, of course). Here's why: -It supports multiple colour depths. The graphics are optimised for either black and white or 256 colours or grays, but it runs fine at other depths. Please note that in order to run the game in Thousands or Millions of colours you will have to double or triple the default partition size. The default (620K) should be fine at 256 colours or less. In fact, users with lower colour depths can reduce this even further. In b/w, the game only requires about 100K. In 24 bit colour it should run in 1800K. -It should support all Macintosh models that support Colour Quickdraw, under any version of the operating system since 6.0.5. (It is now know not to work on pre-colour quickdraw machines like the Mac Plus. A b/w only version that will support those machines should appear soon. (Contact krose@mips2.phy.queensu.ca for details.) -It is perfectly happy on all monitors, including 9" displays. It should be great on your PowerBooks too.