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A b a l o n e Đ version 1.0 beta 2 The game The purpose of the game is to push at least six of the opponent's balls outside of the board. You can push them with a row of your own balls. A row of two balls can push one ball of the opposite color; a row of three balls can push one ball or a row of two balls of the opposite color. Balls can be moved by rows of one, two or three, in any of the six directions, one step at a time. A row can push only along its axis, one step at a time too. Black balls begin. The past of Abalone Previous release did not have such beautiful, such marvellous balls and boards. So how did they appear? That's the magic of another program by AndrƯ: Alef. (At least, it's the name right now, but it has changed of name several times, the most prominent ones having been Solidworks and Adam). Alef is a powerfull first-class 3-D modeler and render for Macintosh. Please contact AndrƯ Reinald for more information about this stonishing software. Also, Abalone used to be shareware. Now it's freeware, but there is a catch. Find it! The future of Abalone Next release will feature a Player setup panel, allowing you to change sides, change of opponent (human, computer, remote network players). The playing algorithm could be smarter. And may be a 3-D version (moving balls left, right, forth-left, forth-right, aft-left, aft-right, up-forth-left, up-forth-right, up-aft, down-forth, down-aft-left, and down-aft-right). The cost of Abalone Abalone is Freeware. This means that you are free and encouraged to copy and distribute it gratis, but you are forbidden to sell it. Please feel free to send us any comments via email; we'll try our best to answer any questions you bring up. Comments, bug reports: email to: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr andre@burgond.remcomp.fr And finaly, some legalese: COPYRIGHT This program, source code and all associated documents and data files are Copyright 1991, 1995, by AndrƯ Reinald and Pascal Bourguignon. All rights are reserved. Distribution is allowed as long as all code and manuals stay together, intact, and unmodified. Resale as a commercial product (of either the original or derived work) is strictly forbidden without the authors' written permission. DISCLAIMERS This program is distributed ªAS ISº; if it messes up and trashes your disk, or your network (which it most probably won't) then we will wave our hands in the air and disclaim all responsibility and liability. Have fun!
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