Abalone 1.5.1

About Abalone for the Macintosh 1.5.1 Description Abalone is a very nice stratetic board game for two or more players. If you don't know the rules, you can read about them in the About box. This program is a Macintosh implementation of the game Abalone. Each of the two or three Abalone players can be humans (local or remote on the network) or Macs, so you can use the program - in 'demo mode' (all Mac players), - to play against the Mac (one Mac player and one human player [you]), - to play against others, either using one Mac or using two or three networked Macs. Currently, four different but similar strategies can be chosen for a Mac player, and each strategy can be played at several different levels. More strategies may be implemented in the future; good ideas for this are welcome. If your idea sounds promising and is easy to implement, I may do so some day. Distribution Abalone for the Macintosh is freeware, but it is copyrighted by the author. The price for COMMERCIAL distribution is one free copy of the medium (floppy, CD-ROM, magazine, whatever) used to distribute Abalone, sent to my home address for free. All user feedback like postcards, bug reports, questions,dollar bills, comments etc. are welcome and can be sent at my home address, or at my mail address. You will find these addresses in the About box. Source code As of this version, the sources for Abalone are also made available (conditionally). They are distributed separately, as most users will not have much use for them. Having the sources will allow programmers to easily implement their own strategies and test them using my program. My copyrighted sources are made publicly availabe for this purpose only; it's explicitly forbidden to re-distribute a modified version of the program commercially (and this includes shareware), or with a changed About box. Requirements THIS PROGRAM REQUIRES SYSTEM 7. It definately won't run under earlier system software versions. The minimum size in the Finders Get Info box is enough to fully use the program, except for the 3D Graphics option, which makes the graphics a lot nicer. To use this option, the preferred size should be available to the program, and you also need to have QuickTime installed (to decompress the JPEG-ed PICTs). (De)Installation No special installation is needed; "just copy that floppy". When you quit this game, your settings are automatically saved in a Preferences file (in the Preferences Folder inside the System Folder, where these files belong). If you decide to trash Abalone, remember to remove the Abalone Preferences file. -1- If you don't like the background pictures provided, you can replace them with your own: create PICT resources, preferrably JPEG-medium compressed and with dimensions 494 * 430, and use them to replace the ones in Abalone with an ID in te range of 200…205. Please distribute Abalone with the original pictures. If you have some really cool picture, …