- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Total Game Control, The Helping Edge — Is it even appropriate to compare the feeling of playing a dynamic action game with the keyboard and the feeling of playing the same game with an intuitive control device — like a steering wheel for racing or a joystick for an action game? When you have no time to think of your next move and have to take an action now, often by the intuition, do you have time for looking for the right shortcut…
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