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- This program may be distributed freely.
- (You're free to stop reading here.)
-
- WinTTT is a 3 Dimensional tic tac toe game for Window 3.0. Unlike 2
- Dimensional tic tac toe, the object of 3 dimensional tic tac toe is
- to get 4 of your pieces in a row (rather than just 3, you see).
-
- So to play you just click the mouse (you need a mouse) where you want to
- place your piece and then wait for the computer to play (should be quick).
- (and Repeat)
-
- You can switch sides with the computer, or have the computer play against
- itself, or play against a friend, or yourself, etc. I think the menu options
- are fairly intuitive. The Guy playing the X's always plays first.
-
- If you spend much time having the computer play against itself, you'll notice
- that it is a HUGE advantage to play first. I think that means that 3
- dimensional tic tac toe isn't a very good game, in some sense.
-
- Sometimes the graphic fills get messed up when it's not being run full-screen,
- I apoligize but I can't think of an EASY way to fix it. It is harmless,
- though, and I don't know of any other bugs. (of course, I'm not saying there
- aren't any others).
-
- If you can beat the computer at the highest level ("Forget it") I am very
- impressed, and would be interested to hear about it. If you have another
- algorithm that can beat this one consistently, I would be interested in
- hearing about/seeing it, also. (So I can beef up my searches, you see.)
-
- If you want my source, you can have it--but it's not too pretty. It was one
- of my first Windows applications so the Windows stuff is very messy. The
- playing algorithm isn't too bad. It doesn't use memory very efficiently,
- but there are some reasonably clever tables (for an EE guy, at least). There
- are no comments.
-
- Anyway, I hope you it keeps your attention for a few minutes; it did mine.
-
- Oh, one more thing: If you think this is a really neat program and are in a
- position to give me a job, I'd be very interested to hear about it.
-
-
- chris aldrich
- UNH ECE Dept.
- c_aldrich@unhh.unh.edu