The game is played with stones and piles. There
are six piles for each player, plus one score pile each. (See the gif
below.) Player one's piles are in the bottom row, and player two's piles
in the top. Player one has his scorepile on the left; player two has her
scorepile on the right.
(You can play on your Powerbook!
See the Black and White screen.)
(Bing!) Auf deutch: Diese Computervariante eines komplexen
Strategiebrettspiels afrikanischen Ursprungs ist manchem vielleicht unter
dem Namen Kalaha bekannt. Sie treten gegen den Computer oder einen
Spielpartner an und mssen versuchen, mit der Maus die Spielsteine
umzuschichten und Punkte zu sammeln. Eine ausfhrliche Spielanleitung
liegt dem Programm bei. - macpool
On your turn, you choose a pile by clicking on it. All the stones in
that pile get scooped up. The computer then 'seeds' the stones around the
board clockwise, putting one stone in each subsequent pile. As you move
around the board, you seed stones into your own score pile, but not that
of your opponent. Plus, if your last stone lands in your own score pile,
you get a free turn.
Here's a sample move.
These are the basic rules. The game has many variants, including
numbers of stones per pile, pickup limits, a tournement stone, the
pick-up-and-go rule (my favourite) and a major variation called Ayo (also
known as Wari or Sorry!).
Stones II features full colour and
sound, fast and easy play, full documentation, many game variants, and a
selection of computer opponents varying from the mundane to the
unbeatable. Play the computer or a friend.
Stones II will run on
any Macintosh computer equipped with system 7.0 or later and Colour
Quickdraw (i.e. any Mac made since the Mac SE excluding the PB100 and the
Classics). The game is both PowerPC and 68k native. It requires 1 Mb of
hard drive space, and will run fine with 1 Mb of free memory.
This
game is shareware, $10 American or Canadian, but does not require
registration for full features.
Stones II requires a
Macintosh with 1 MB of free memory, and 900k of free disk space. It will
run native on a PowerMac as well as 68k machines that have Colour
Quickdraw (i.e. Any mac from the Mac SE on up, excluding the PB 100 and
the Classic.) Also required is System 7. It runs fine on most
Powerbooks.
Download Stones II v1.0 (583k, Stuffed)
Download Stones II v1.0 (804k, Stuffed and
BinHex'd)
Remember: Stones II is now shareware! You are allowed to keep the
game for 30 days before deciding to buy. Stones II costs $5 per site (see
below). Please pay; I have put many weeks of work into this game, and lots
of money into the tools to make it. Stones II is not crippleware,
however, and you don't have to register to get full features.
Remember to send it to:
Black Plaid Software
Apt 10, 3 Forrest Hill Drive
Guelph, ON, Canada
N1G 2E1
New Shareware Fees!
As of August 27, 1997, I have not
recieved a single shareware payment. Not one. Nada. Zero. For five
months. My web counter tells me that at least 100 mac users have hit this
site, and no doubt more have it by CD-Rom and archive.
Ok, perhaps ten bucks was a little steep: it's now officially 5
dollars (US or Cdn) per copy.
Moreover, I've stopped getting mail about the game. Did it crash
everyone's machine? Or has the shareware fee made everyone guilty? I
would like to think that someone likes the game...
In any case, I'm now offering two new payment options:
1. Send me ten small, interesting stones of your choosing to the above
adress in exhange for your copy, or:
2. Send me $500 and Stones II becomes freeware for everybody! CD-Rom
distributors take note.
C'mon, people, pay up!
--- Nathaniel
That's it. Go back to my Home Page, if you like.
<Revised: 8/27/97> Nathaniel Tagg /
ntagg@uoguelph.ca
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