Hey,
I think that game is also konwn as Owari on the continent of Africa and is
still fairly popular in Egypt. There is a Palm version floating around out
there for anyone interested in seeing it in action.
Christopher Rydberg
solitaire0@xxxxxxxxxxx
afterlife.100megsfree4.com
I bought the game when I was a kid I believe and it had polished stones.. I
got it at the Museum Of Natural History on a class trip in school.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John K. Harvey" <jkharvey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [stella] vcs net play A0?=
> Correct. Or shiny gems. The travel version I bought had pebbles....
> interesting that I actually paid for rocks.
>
> Anyway, whatever you use, they'll all look the same once they become
> highly-pixelated.
>
> This is the game where you pick a pit on your side of the board, pick up
> all stones, and drop one in each sequential bucket, filling your
"Mancala",
> or big pit as you go.
>
> It's a pretty amusing game, and shouldn't be too hard to program. There
> are only 6 moves possible at a given time (which pit to pick up from),
and
> there are < 6 moves whenever any of these pits empties itself.
>
> -John K. Harvey
>
> At 09:33 PM 7/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >Mancala is the game with marbles, right?! I kinda forget how to play,
but
> >that sounds very simple.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "John K. Harvey" <jkharvey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:04 PM
> >Subject: Re: [stella] vcs net play A0?=
> >
> >
> >> I had planned to turn my rs232 demo into a version of Mancala. I
figure
> >> that would have been the simplest to do: draw the board vertically,
and
> >> have P0 be the left pit graphic, and P! the right pit graphic. The
board
> >> could be drawn with PF GFX. Any takers?
> >>
> >> -John
> >>
> >> At 08:43 PM 7/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >> >If someone wants to start out making online VCS games, why not just
start
> >> >with turn based games?! Chess, checkers, heck maybe someone can
program
> >> >something like a simple version of "Risk". Wonder if Scrabble would
fit
> >on a
> >> >VCS screen.
> >> >
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