How to play 3D Tic-Tac-Toe

     The object of the game is to place four of your own pieces along any straight line within the 4x4x4 grid displayed on the screen.  You can place your pieces in any open spot in the grid.  The difficulty lies in the fact that you are playing in 3 dimensions, and some of the diagonals can be very hard to spot.  The computer does not have this problem, however, so be careful!!
     The Players menu controls who plays the game.  You can play against the computer or against a friend.  You can also pit the computer against itself.  The Circle and Cross menus are used to determine the levels of play when the computer plays itself.
     When you play against the computer, there are four levels of play ranging from merely irritating to outright infuriating.  The computer can be beaten, however, so don't despair.
     You can print the playing board whenever you want to.  The ‘Print Tiled’ option was included so you could print out a full page of empty playing boards for you to play your friends on.

Registration

     If you have any suggestions for improving this program, please let me know.  If you haven't paid for the program, please do so.  It took a lot of effort to get the program to work, so a contribution of US$10 or more will be greatly appreciated.
     Some of this program's features are protected by a password.  This was done to encourage you to send in your shareware fee.  The menu item 'Enter Password' allows you to enter the password and unlock the protected features.  When you send me US$10 and the Phrase given in the Enter Password dialog, I will send you the correct password.
     Once you enter the password, the program will save it so that you do not need to do it again.  Please remove the password from the copies you give to your friends.
     I'll be happy to send you a list of my other programs if you want me to.  I also do custom programming, in case you need a program that will do something special.

     My address is:

     John Lindal
     P.O. Box 4092
     Point Dume, CA  90264

     My E-mail address is:

     jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

Disclaimer

     I have tried to debug this program on all the common Macs.  However, I can't guarantee that it will work with all systems.  If the program does crash, send me a letter telling me how it happened, and I'll try to fix the problem.
     Please don't feel that you have to pay for the program before you report a problem.  (But it wouldn't hurt.)  I'm more interested in fixing bugs and getting new ideas than getting paid for the program.

Bugs Fixed from Previous Versions

1)  Clark Chang discovered that you could place markers on level 5 of the playing board, even though there are only 4 levels.

2)  Numbers occasionally appeared with a slash in the middle.  (This one was very rare.)

3)  Mike Dickens pointed out that “if you have the screen space, use it!”  He's right, so now you can move the game window to any screen.

4)  You can thank Lloyd Wood for helping me make the password system more secure.

5)  Lloyd also pointed out that the fonts in my program were interfering with the system's fonts.