cutter@cutsys.UUCP (Bernie Hoffstadt ) (12/22/87)
There is a game called "Connect Four" that is manufactured by Milton Bradley. It is essentially an 8x8 version of tic-tac-toe. The idea of the game is to get four checkers of your color in a straight line, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Another optional rule (to prevent stalemates) is; the person putting the topmost checker in a slot wins. I recently saw this game in electronic form as a diversion for bored users of Sketch for the PC. In this game, you played the computer; your "checkers" are indicated by an 'X', the computer's, an 'O'. A crude representation of the game is below. | | | | | | | | | |O| |*|X|X| | |X| |O| |X|*|O|O|X|O| |X|O|X|X|*|O|O|X| |O|X|O|X|X|*|X|O| |X|O|X|X|O|O|X|X| |X|X|O|O|X|X|O|O| |O|O|X|X|O|X|O|X| `-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-' The winning O's are marked by an *. Note that the winning left-upper * was put in after the X below it, which had to go there to stop a horizontal connect of O's. Ok, so now that you all know what I'm talking about, does anyone know of a PD version of this game? If so, please email me info on how I can get it. Unix sources are preferred, with MS-Dos executables second. If anyone ELSE also is interested, email ME, and I'll see that you get whatever I come up with. If I don't get anything within a couple of weeks, I'll consider writing my own version. Thanks, all. -- Bernie Hoffstadt (503)752-5259 1437 NW 9th St Corvallis, Oregon uucp: {tektronix,hp-pcd}!orstcs!cutsys!cutter *** 43rd Law of Computing... Internet: cutter%cutsys.UUCP@CS.ORST.EDU *** Anything that can go wro