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File contents
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<< H E X >>
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A board game for two players
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Contents:
1 - Rules of the game.
2 - Using the program.
3 - Brief history of the game.
4 - Acknowledgements.
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1 RULES OF THE GAME 1
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Two players take it in turn to place a nought or a
cross on the hexagonal board.
The 'crosses player' wins by making an unbroken
line of crosses between the two edges of the board
marked with crosses (left to right).
The 'noughts player' wins by making an unbroken
line of crosses between the two edges of the board
marked with noughts (top to bottom).
The winning line can be as convoluted as
necessary, it doesn't have to be a simple straight
line.
The corner hexes count as a nought or a cross -
for example, a row of noughts across the short
diagonal is a win for noughts; a row of crosses on
the same line is a win for crosses.
Play can be made at any hex on the board, you do
not have to make your next move adjacent to the
last.
There is always a winner - in blocking your
opponent from making a line, you must make an
unbroken line between your sides of the board.
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2 USING THE PROGRAM 2
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The application installs on the icon bar, with the
main game board window open. Before starting a
game, the following options can be selected:
From the main board menu:
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Red to start The player to start when the
Blue to start next game starts can be
selected. The starter auto-
matically alternates between
games, but can be forced by
selecting one of these
options.
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Show scores Opens a window displaying
number of wins.
Reset scores Resets scores to zero.
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Set game options Opens a window displaying
several options:-
i) Blue player - human / computer
ii) Red player - human / computer
iii) Computer level - 1 (easy) to 5 (hard)
When these options have been set, select the
'OK' button to confirm. 'Cancel' resets the
options, and makes no changes.
NB These options can be saved using
~~ 'Save options' from the icon bar
menu, and will then be used when
the program is next run.
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You are now ready to start a new game - select
'Start new game' from the main board menu.
The board indicates which player is human, and
which is being played by the computer. The player
to move has a coloured background - if it is a
human's move, simply click select over the hexagon
where you wish to place a blue circle (or red
cross).
A human player can resign when it is his or her
turn to go, by selecting 'Resign' on the main
board menu. This can also be used to abort a
computer vs computer game: change one to human and
resign.
A win is signalled with a beep, and the winning
line is indicated.
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3 BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GAME 3
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The game is rather well described in the book
'Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions' by Martin
Gardner, Pelican Books, ISBN 0 14 02.0713 9.
It was invented by Piet Hein of the Institute for
Theoretical Physics of Denmark in 1942. The board
can be of any size, but 11x11 is convenient: it
can be played using counters on a hexagonal board,
or, like noughts and crosses, using pen and paper.
A board can easily be drawn using Draw with an
isometric grid - all you then need is a pen and a
friend.
The game has been computerised previously (1953),
using an anologue device which modelled the board
as a two dimensional potential field, with the
moves represented by positive and negative
charges. The next move was determined by measuring
saddle points in the field. Like this program, the
anologue computer was poor at end play - clinching
the win.
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4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4
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The program was originally written as single
tasking, and was shoe-horned into a multi-tasking
shell using the Dabhand Guide to BASIC Wimp
Programming on the Acorn, and its associated 'Bare
Bones' applications, library functions and
procedures. This book is truly excellent, and I
am obliged to make the following statement
verbatim in order to freely use the supplied
code:-
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'Program developed with routines written by
A.P.Senior as provided with the book BASIC
Wimp Programming published by Dabs Press'.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I strongly recommend buying the book with the
optional floppy discs.
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END OF HELP
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