Polyominoes 5.0 is the long-overdue color version of Polyominoes. A polyomino is a piece made up entirely of squares connected edge-to-edge. For example, a domino is a polyomino with 2 squares. In Polyominoes, you can use pentominoes, tetrominoes, trominoes, hexominoes, or create a set of your own pieces using the Piece Editor.
Polyominoes is really three games in one. In game mode, you have a very interesting strategy game in which you try to put the last piece on the board. The pieces can be flipped or rotated in any manner. You can use any of the over 60 different boards, or create one of your own using the Board Editor. In puzzle mode, you can try to place all the pieces on any of the boards. In spanning puzzle mode, you try to ﾒspanﾓ the board with the fewest number of pieces. The program keeps track of all of your best efforts.
Polyominoes is Shareware, $8.00 registration fee. It should work on any Macintosh with either System 6 or 7, with or without 32-bit addressing. It should work with both color and monochrome monitors. Note to users with gray scale monitors: you should either play around with the color settings in the program, or trick it into using black/white mode. To make it run in black/white, set your monitor depth to black/white before running.
Major changes since version 4.0:
･ color!
･ another way to rotate/flip pieces
･ preferences file remembers keyboard and color preferences
･ options to allow alternating of who goes first, and cycling of boards
･ 640x480 screen support
･ hexomino pieces added
･ piece editor to create your own piece sets
･ probably faster
･ 28 additional boards
･ new "smart borders" so the boards look nicer
･ a new tougher level to play against (as if it wasn't hard enough already)
