Line Up! 2.0.1 This is a Strategy Game Mactivity's CD-ROM nr 10 advice: This application did run on a b/w 68030 processor under System 7.1, but the behaviour on a ColorScreen of a PowerMacintosh running System 7.1.2 was not satisfying. Our advice: use only on 68030 processors, or try with caution on a 68040 processor This game used to have a different name, but somebody warned me that I might have been violating some copyright rules, therefor the change to Line Up!. Line Up! (Vier op een Rij) is a board game for two players. I started developing this on a Sun Workstation without any user-interface, because a collegue of me had made a version of this game in Prolog and I thought I could do this better in C. This version played pretty good, allthough it couldn't beat my friend Mark, the local Vier op een Rij guru. By tuning the algorithm, I came to a program that could do up to 800000 evaluations per minute, which I myself found impressing. Somewhat later, I started porting the game to my home Macintosh. I finished this at the end of may 92, which resulted in version 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (the last containing some bug fixes). I then put it aside for some time, up to the point where I felt like developing some more. I was working on other program, but since I had some problems there (I found out that it already existed), I decided to go back to Line Up!. I had some ideas fo what could be improved, and what would be nice, and implemented most of it. The most interesting is certainly the possibility to play against somebody on another computer over the AppleTalk network. I first wanted to name this version 1.1, but the enhancements and new features are so major, that I decided to make it a 2.0 immediately. So far for the story behind all this. Back to the Computer Games Index