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- A b a l o n e — version 1.0 beta 2
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- The game
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- 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.
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- The past of Abalone
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- 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 André: 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
- André 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!
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- The future of Abalone
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- 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).
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- The cost of Abalone
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- Abalone is Freeware. This means that you are free and encouraged
- to copy and distribute it gratis, but you are forbidden to sell
- it.
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- Please feel free to send us any comments via email; we'll try our
- best to answer any questions you bring up.
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- Comments, bug reports: email to:
- pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr
- andre@burgond.remcomp.fr
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- And finaly, some legalese:
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- COPYRIGHT This program, source code and all associated documents
- and data files are Copyright 1991, 1995, by André 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.
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- DISCLAIMERS This program is distributed “AS IS”; 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.
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- Have fun!
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