Super Othello is an implementation of the classic board game Othello, which is also known as Reversi. You play either red or green on an 8x8 grid, and the object of the game is to gain as many of your opponent's pieces before the game ends.
Super Othello features Player vs Player, Player vs Mac and Mac vs Mac modes with eight different levels of difficulty. You can show available moves, log and save games, in addition to flipping the board and inverting it. Super Othello also allows you to watch a tutorial explaining the rules for flipping.
Super Othello was previously written using HyperCard. If you are interested in the last version distributed for HyperCard, please contact me on any of the addresses below. You can also find it at the YLS web-page: <http://home.sol.no/~stoedle/YLS/>
Requirements
Super Othello 2.3.1 requires any Macintosh or compatible with System 7.0 or later, a 13" screen capable of displaying atleast 256 colors and 1800 kb of memory. Super Othello 2.3.1 is fully compatible with MacOS 8.
Shareware...
Super Othello is shareware. That means that if you like it, you should pay me $15, £10 or 100 NOK*. You can use the provided Register application or pay with cash or a money order directly to the address below.
* Please note that there are discounts available. Each copy up to the tenth costs $15, if you buy more copies that that, each copy is $10. If you buy more than 25 copies, each copy of Super Othello is priced at $7. Site and world licenses are available at $500 and $2000 (not very realistic for a game, though).
More information on payment can be found in the document Paying for Super Othello, which includes useful information about how to use the Register program and what to do when you have used it.
Yellow Lemon Software can be contacted via e-mail or snail-mail at these addresses:
E-mail:
yls@kagi.com
stoedle@online.no
Snail-mail:
Yellow Lemon Software
Daniel Stødle
Fogd Dreyersgt. 21
N-9008 Tromsø
NORWAY
Please support shareware and pay for Super Othello. If you have any comments, bugs, or suggestions, please report them to either of the above addresses. You can also send any questions you may have to those addresses.
Upon registration, you will receive a code which will allow you to personalize Super Othello. This code will also prevent the registration reminder from being displayed every time you run Super Othello. Please make sure you enter your name and registration code exactly as typed on your registration card. If you have problems entering your code, contact me on any of the above addresses, and I will try to help you out.
Documentation for Super Othello is included in the document Super Othello 2.3.1 Docs, which should be in a folder called "Documentation".
For updates, info and other products from Yellow Lemon Software, please check out the YLS web page, located at <http://home.sol.no/~stoedle/YLS/>
Important note to registered users of Super Othello versions prior to 2.3
If you registered your copy of Super Othello prior to version 2.3, you do not have a serial number which will let you personalize Super Othello. Please contact me and I will get back to you with one as soon as I receive your request. If you have an e-mail address (which is in the YLS records), you should have received an e-mail with your code. Also, if you did not have an e-mail address at the time you registered, but do now, including it with your request will allow me to send your code to you faster. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Known bugs
- During a game, if you choose "About Super Othello…" from the Apple menu while the cube is moving up, the contents of the About box may become garbled. I don’t know what causes this, but it is not a dangerous bug (it won’t crash your machine), so you can safely continue playing.
- Super Othello may not work correctly with a display set to millions of colors. I haven’t been able to test this, so if you have a Mac (or compatible) on which Super Othello fails to draw its graphics correctly, please contact me.
If you want to distribute Super Othello on a CD-ROM or similar, please let me know, and if possible give me a free copy of the product. Make sure the following files are included if you decide to distribute Super Othello on a CD-ROM or similar:
√ Super Othello 2.3.1 (FAT)
√ Super Othello 2.3.1 Read Me
√ Super Othello 2.3.1 Docs
√ Super Othello FAQ
√ Paying for Super Othello
√ Version History
√ YLS Products
√ License Agreement
√ Register
Yellow Lemon Software does not take any responsibility for loss of data, crashes or other bad things that can happen to your Mac while playing Super Othello. Super Othello has been tested extensively on a variety of Macs, and has been found to be quite bug free. The known bugs are stated above in the section "Known bugs".
Please make sure you read the included License Agreement.
