- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- Personal Chess Trainer 2007, And Now, It's Possible! — The chess game is one of the most ancient, non-trivial and brain-changing game since the humanity’s origin. It is well-known that it is much easier to «understand the rules» (how each figure moves, and what to do basically) than to really «learn chess». Some have even argued that there’s no way to learn chess on your own by just playing or reading books. But now, it’s possible! You…
- Chess-7 — Long before computers appeared, chess had become a widespread and interesting game. For many years, fans of this game have been competing with each other for the title of the «greatest intellect». Now you can contend against the artificial intelligence and train yourself to be the best chess player. What you need for that is Chess-7. Chess-7 gives you an excellent opportunity to play chess with both a computer and a human…
- Fast Link Checker 1.5, Well-Linked Site — Fast Link Checker addresses the problem of checking links between files and pages on a website of any size and complexity. It works just like a «web-crawler»: starts from an arbitrary page and goes through all links until all links within your site are analyzed; then, Fast Link Checker provides you with a detailed report on links that are broken, their location, and the specific error that occurred when the link was analyzed. The report…
- Addict 3.5, Spell-Checked! — Addict Component Suite is a set of VCL components for Borland Delphi/C++ Builder (wide range of Borland/Turbo IDE versions are supported). The suite is designed to solve spell-checking issues once and for all: virtually any scenario of checking is easily supported with highly customizable controls. The basic option is the dialog-based spell-check: you click on the «check» item and see the dialog with misspelled words shown one…
- Jack-o's Revenge 1.9, Wild Power of Retro — The progress of computer games sometimes tends to be too univocal. «Everybody knows», what is «old and boring» and what is «new and cool»; Sometimes I just want to cry: All of your new cool games are not what I want! But the games I’ve loved are «sooo 80’s», that there’s almost no hope to have those «retro» ideas in a modern cover, with…
- Multis 6.6, The Essence Of Tetris — Since its invention in 1985, Tetris puzzle game has gone through zillions of remakes, ports to various platforms (even cell phones in the last years), design changes and even changes of the game itself. The «Classic» Tetris with seven classic bricks, still keeps its popularity, but we’ve seen and played several successive versions with the changed shapes, or different initial states or other rules. None of them can repeat the…
- RIT 1.6, Check the Intelligence — Typical software or paper-based «intelligence tests» are a one-time thing; once you’ve run through a test, the next run will show incorrect results. Moreover, once you’ve run through one of intelligence tests, other similar ones will also become «inappropriate» for you. That’s because of the usual approach to intelligence testing: a set of static constant puzzles and questions — you see them…
- TETCOLOR 2 - a new life of the good old Tetris concept — If you were a kid once, you definitely know what Tetris is. This genius game was invented way back in the days when computers were only evolving into what we see today on our tables. However, the concept was so wildly popular that it spawned hundreds of clones and basically laid the foundation of today’s casual games genre. If you still get nostalgic of the times when you spent endless hours playing Tetris, you should check…
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