- Amazing Mahjongg 3D 1.2.6, Ancient Breath in the Modern Skin — The original Chinese Mahjongg game is thousands of years older than the chess. Its origins are attributed to the famous philosopher, Confucius, who traveled through China provinces near 500s BC, populating his doctrines, sights, and the game. He called the new game «Mahjongg» (hemp bird) simply because he loved birds. The traditional Mahjongg is very widely spread in its homeland. The game even appears to be a part…
- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- OceanDive 1.3. The World is Amazing. Always — The world is huge and beautiful. The number of amazing places is so great that you’ll never see them all, even if you decide to spend your entire life only for traveling. But, of course, places you cannot visit «physically», you can always see «virtually», through TV or (since the Internet is widespread) through the computer. The OceanDive screensaver makes you «feel like a scuba diver»; thus…
- 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…
- War Games Construction Kit — Do you sometimes think it’s high time you took a break and put your work off for a minute? You definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to release the tension and wreak some havoc on the battlefield? But what would be a good time killer in a situation when you don’t have any games at hand? There is an answer for all action-lovers out there — War Games Construction Kit! This game is ideal…
- Amaze Copy — From the first glance, the issue of saving web pages to your hard drive doesn’t seem to be important at all. We all know the ‘File — Save as’ method and seem to be quite happy with it. However, have you ever given a thought to its obvious disadvantages? Sometimes it works and sometimes the browser apologetically notifies you that the page cannot be saved for some reason. Sometimes, when the page seems fully…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- My SUDOKU 1.62, The Game From Endless Time — In 1849, prominent mathematician Leonard Euler published his work «De quadratis magicis» («On magic squares»), describing properties and construction of «squares of digits» with special constraints for sum by rows and columns. In 1979, American architect Howard Garns published in Dell Magazines a puzzle called «Number Place». In 1986, Japanese puzzle publisher Nikoli republished Garns’ puzzle…
- Magic Camera, Amaze Your Friends — They say, one picture tells a thousand of words. In video chats, the picture comes from a webcam hooked up to the computer. But where is one supposed to get the picture if the webcam is still in the store? If buying a new device is not an option at the moment, give a try to Magic Camera. The software adds a virtual camera to your Windows system and allows using it the way…
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