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- Connect-Four for Presentation-Manager
- Version 1.00, 1993/12/15
- (c) 1993 by Andreas Bergen
-
- Object of the game
- ------------------
- The object of the game is (for each player) to place four pieces of his
- color in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. The first one to reach this
- goal wins the game. If no one does so, but each position on the board has been
- filled, the game is a draw.
- The computer's color is red, your color is blue.
-
- Legal moves
- -----------
- You can only put a stone on top of another stone or in the bottom row of the
- board. Legal moves are indicated by a cross shaped mouse-pointer.
-
- About the programming of the game
- ---------------------------------
- Connect-Four for PM is my first attempt in writing an application in C++ and
- for PM. The "think-procedure" runs in its own thread to avoid the wait-pointer
- from being shown outside the application and therefore preventing the user from
- for example resizing the window or quitting the game while computing the next
- move.
- I hope that there are not so many remaining bugs and that you enjoy playing
- the game.
-
- Installation
- ------------
- Connect-Four for PM is comprised of the following:
-
- FourPM.EXE the executable
- EMX.DLL and EMXLIBC.DLL Dynamic link-libraries (c) by Eberhard Mattes.
- They are needed, because FourPM.EXE has been
- compiled using GNU-CC and EMX.
- FourPM.DOC you are reading it.
-
- To install the game, simply verify, that the DLL's are in a directory that is
- in your LIBPATH. The current directory is ok, if a simple '.' is one of the
- entries in your LIBPATH.
-
- License
- -------
- Connect-Four for PM is copyrighted material. Permission is hereby granted to
- distribute and copy Connect-Four for PM, provided that:
- All four files (FourPM.EXE, EMX.DLL, EMXLIBC.DLL, FourPM.DOC) are distributed
- unmodified and as a group, and that no charge be made for copying and/or
- distribution, except a minimal fee covering media or handling expenses.
- If you like and use the program, any amount of cash may be sent in my direction:
- I think, 25 DM, that is about $15 is appreciated. If you decide to honour my
- work you should know that german banks take a high fee of $8-$10 for discharging
- foreign cheques, so sending me a bank note is cheaper.
- You can also get the complete source code of the program for $150.
-
-
- Any suggestions, bug reports or frustration-reports about how often you lost
- should be sent to
-
- Andreas Bergen
- Danziger Straße 35
- 71737 Kirchberg an der Murr
- Germany
-
- or
-
- E-Mail:bergen@minnie.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
-
- I like receiving E-Mails ;-)
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