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- David's BackGammon
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- Features:
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- • Play against the Computer
- • Play against another person
- • 5 skill levels
- • Fast computer play
- • Piece movement is animated - pieces DON'T just appear in the new location
- • Utilizes mouse or keyboard for easy play
- • Can pick up multiple pieces at once
- • Easily take back as many moves and doubles of the cube as you wish
- • Speech - Original Macintalk and the new Speech Manager
- • Digitized sound effects
- • Cube can be used in all modes of play
- • Recommends "best" moves
- • Gives Doubling Cube Advice
- • Save your game to finish later
- • Switch board direction and colors
- • Setup any board situation.
- • On-line Help
- • Context sensitive help
- • Helpful messages during play using speech & text
- • Tournament Play
- • Print the entire game
- • Selectable board size
- • Multiple board color schemes
- • Both color and monochrome
- • Hot key to hide the game quickly (in case your boss shows up)
- • Add comments when saving a game for later recall
- • Concede games
- • Option to input dice rolls
- • Change the speed of piece movement
- • Can create your own board colors
- • Select number of automatic doubles
- • Beaver option supported
- • Jacoby rule optional
- • Option to allow one roll-over during game
- • Option to Re-roll first roll
- • Option to not allow backgammons
- • Option to make sure you win the first roll with a good roll
- • Option to force the computer to accept your doubling of the cube
- • Option to have winner roll first
- • Easily (1 click) display pipcounts and remaining rolls for both players
- • Note pad for taking notes during game play
- • Automatic Rolls of the dice for faster play
- • Choice of shorter dice sound for faster play
- • Keeps track of statistics for up to 4 pairs of players
- • Instant replay of computers's last move
- • Option to show possible moves when a piece is picked up
- • Display the risk of your blots being hit
- • Select to pick up either 1 piece at a time or multiple pieces
- • Option to speak the dice rolls.
- • Can replay the game using the same rolls - either using yours or the computer's rolls
- • Can continue a game after the game has ended due to the cube being declined
- • Keeps game and sessions statistics as well as running/cumulative statistics.
- • Plus more...
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