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AWARI
by Lance C. Thomas
INTRODUCTION
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AWARI is one of the beans-in-pits
games generally known under the name
of "Mankala" or "Mancala". Mankala is
an ancient game played from Africa to
the Philippines.
The board is divided into six pits
on each side. Initially there are
three beans in each pit, for a total
of thirty-six beans. In addition,
there are two home pits at the ends.
A move is made by taking all the
beans from a pit on your side.
Starting with the pit immediately to
the right, these beans are "sown" one
at a time in each pit working around
the board counter-clockwise.
A turn consists of one or two
moves. If the last bean of your first
move is sown in your home pit, you
must make a second move.
If the last bean is sown in an
empty pit, and the opposite pit is not
empty, all beans in the opposite pit,
together with the last bean sown are
"captured" and moved to your home pit.
When either side is empty, the
game is over. The player with the most
beans in his home pit is the winner.
If both players have the same number
of beans in their home pit, the game
is a draw, and there is no winner.
In this computer version the home
pits are colored blue and red. The
blue home pit belongs to the player
with the bottom pits on the screen.
And the red home pit belongs to the
player with the top pits. The bottom
player moves first.
NAVIGATION
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The pointer can be moved by a
mouse in port 1, or a joystick in
port 2, or the keyboard cursor keys.
For the joystick, the FIRE button
and [F7] are used as the left and
right mouse buttons, respectively.
For the keyboard, [SPACE] and
[RETURN] can be used as the left mouse
button, and [F7] as the right mouse
button.
The left mouse button is used to
make a selection. A selection can also
be made with an indicated [KEY]. While
the program is "busy", the arrow
pointer will be yellow. The program
will not process mouse clicks or key
presses while the arrow is yellow. So
if you want to select something while
the arrow is yellow; press a key and
wait, or hold down the left mouse
button, or its equivalent, and wait.
Note, [STOP] has been disabled.
All white areas are "clickable".
There are two player buttons; [A]
for the blue home pit, and [B] for the
red home pit. Use these buttons to
toggle the player between human and
computer. If you want to toggle both,
use the right mouse button.
There are two command buttons;
Play and Quit.
PLAY starts a new game using the
current options.
QUIT quits AWARI, and returns you
to LOADSTAR or BASIC.
CREDITS
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To create this program, I used the
following tools: SYSRES(tm) by Don
Lekei from Hands-on Software Inc.;
ZIP64 by Tim George; FONT STUDIO by
Anthony Rose; MR. EDSTAR by Dave
Moorman; and FONTSWAPPER V2 from
LOADSTAR.
This program incorporates the
following tools: MR. MOUSE 2.1 and
MOUSE MATE by Lee Novak.
LCT