Potelo

Easy to learn Japanese game for your palm.

POTELO 1.1

Copyright (C) 1998 Nori Kanazawa

Thanks for your interesting in POTELO!

What is POTELO?

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POTELO is a Othello game, some people say 'Reversi'. But most

of the Japanese call it 'Othelo'.

Author

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This program was developed by Nori Kanazawa([email protected]).

Instruction to install POTELO.

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Just install with any types of your conduit softwares.

I recommend you to uninstall the previous version of Potelo before

installing this version.

You may have to soft-reset during installation. I am not sure why,

but it might be caused because, I changed my development environment

lately.

How to play?

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It's simple, you can start a game from 'New game' of command menu.

[Menu]

- Command

New game : Start a new game.

New Record game : Start a new record game.

Show Record : Open a dialog, and show your results.

Save game : Save a game.(You can not save during record game)

Load game : Load a game you saved.

About Potelo : About dialog

- Edit

Undo : Undo. (Unable during record game)

: You can do UNDO with Hardware Down KEY!

Redo : Redo. (Unable during record game)

: You can do REDO with Hardware UP KEY!

Option : Change game options

Preference : Change game settings

[Option form]

COMPUTER LEVEL : Change the computer level[1(easiest) to 5(strongest)].

: You can use only level 1, if you have not registered.

Black : Change who is Black.

White : Change who is White.

[Preference form]

Drawing Speed : Change how fast coins are drawn.

Sound Click : Set volume for tip sound when you click the screen.

Sound Event : Set volume for event music.

Show next move : If checked, next possible moves are shown.

Show the last move : If checked, the last move is shown on the board.

Record game

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On the ecorded game, your win-lose results are recorded. You can

start a new record game from 'New Record game'. On that mode, you can

not do UNDO, REDO, and Configuration. After you finish a game, the

result is applied to the result history. If you stop a record game

with 'New game' or 'New Record game', the result is added as 'Draw'.

To confirm if you are in record mode, '=REC=' is shown at the bottom

left corner.

Ecah time you start a new record game, the configuration window is

opened. You have to configure the game there. You can choose only

which color you want, not like the normal mode.

You can see your result from 'Show Record'.

On record game, you can not save game, because you can cheat Potelo

and get good win-lose results if you can save.

To-Do

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. Much wiser algorithm.

. Speed Up!

. Save board data into MemoDB.

. When the menu is pushed, the computer's thinking should be suspended.

. Gray-scale mode. It seems difficults, and the program size would be big.:<

COPYRIGHT

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You can not re-distribute this program, because it is still

under the development!

And I have to say to you that there is no warranty for this

program.

Others

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I really appreciate your any questions, comments, and bug reports.

This version of Potelo is shareware. If you like Potelo, please pay US

$10.00 from http://www.pilotgear.com.

There is only LEVEL 1 on the shareware version.

You can also reach them with TEL:817.461.3480 or FAX:817.461.3482.

History

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0.1 : 5/1/98

Fist Release

0.2 : 5/4/98

Second Release

Improved evaluation function(Think::evaluateBoard())

Improved speed up of checking moves.

Fixed a bug in a thinking function(Think::step())

Fixed a bug in a drawing board function(DrawBoard())

Support two levels. (Think:start( int level) )

Add Undo/Redo Feature

The first move is changed to black.

0.3 : 6/2/98

Third Release

Modified many codes to support multiple moves.(Think::step())

Some new thinking functionalities.

- MinMax Search

- Alpha-Beta Search

Fixed some bugs.

Add more computer levels(1 to 4).

Changing the weight both of mobitality and of potential mobitality

according to the board.

Compiled with PRC-TOOLS5.0.

0.4 : 6/7/98

4th release

Changed the drawing way. Now came to be very good!

Save preference data when stopping app.

Resource id was defined in res.h.

fix the Undo/Redo problem.

The icon is much better than before, I suppose. ;->

Add the configuration form for changing the computer level and players.

The algorithm was not changed at all. :-|

0.5 : 6/12/98

5th release

Potelo came to be a shareware program. If you want to keep playing

Potelo, please regist from www.pilotgear.com.

Undo/Redo functions was updated.

The drawing speed came to be changeable.

Show the rate of thinking for the next move.

Add some sound events.

The popup window let you know messages.

0.6 : 7/11/98

6th release

Add a option to turn off sounds.

Reset preference data when system-reset.

Add a new level. But this is too slow to play. I will tune up soon.

Coins came to have shadow.

Show where the move was taken by last player.

There are two versions now. Unregisterd version has only level 1.

0.7 : 7/31/98

7th release

The reporter which indicates where the last moves shows came to be better than before.

The board is refreshed before the alert dialog box is shown.

The bug of algorithm was fixed.

The alogroithm around the middle of game was improved. <- not enough.

The design of the board was modified.

The undo function when the Computer is thinking works correctly.

The indicator which shows how long it takes for the computer to think came to be better.

0.8 : 9/7/98

8th release

Add Win-Loss records.

Fixed serial line problem.

Modify some messages.

The alogrithm was changed little bid.

Fixed a bug of the algrithm. ;-)

0.9 : 9/25/98

9th release

Finally I added original sounds! with volume!

Fixed a bug of algorithm.

Algorithm at the end of game improved.

The number of Undo/Redo came to be unlimited.

The coins are flipped after putting a coin. Thanks, Barbaro.;-)

1.0 : 10/12/98

10th release

I added all functions I thought when I started to write this program.

So, it is version 1.0 now.

The Potelo data is saved as DB in Pilot. It used to be saved

as the preference. Previous versions of Potelo refresh the preference data

every RESET. Now the data is in DB format, so you can delete it with 'Memory'.:)

Potelo came to be wiser around corner moves.;-)

You can save games up to 5!

The undo history is saved.

You can use Hardware buttons for Undo/Redo.

Some bugs are fixed.

File size came to be smaller.

1.1 : 11/1/98

11th release

Can show the last move on the board. ;-)

Can show next moves on the board. ;-)

The configuration dialog is separated to two. Now you can

change options during Record Mode Game.

Some bugs fixed.

Thanks,