Snow Col Boxes
| Filename | snow-col-boxes.hqx |
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| Size | 67.9 KB (69481 bytes) |
| Downloads | 7 |
Snow Col Boxes is a small Macintosh implementation of the classic pencil-and-paper game dots-and-boxes, written in 1995 as a class project by students of Computer Science 112 at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, under instructor Russell Baird. It was uploaded to Info-Mac alongside two sibling student projects.
The game
Players take turns drawing a single edge between adjacent dots on a grid. Whoever closes the fourth side of a box claims it (and takes another turn). When the grid is full, the player owning the most boxes wins. Snow Col Boxes plays this on a Mac window with mouse input.
Origin as coursework
The submitter, Mark Gardner (gard9525@badger.snow.edu), uploaded a bundle of CS 112 projects in June 1995. Snow Col Boxes is one of three; the others are Snow Col Tic-Tac-Toe and Snow Col Pseudo Checkers, all credited to the same class.
Preservation context
The game survives only through the Info-Mac brd/ category. There is no commercial release, no Macintosh Garden page, and no known author beyond "a CS 112 student" — which is part of why preserving it matters.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
