Fanorona

File	fanorona.hqx
Size	410.4 KB
Category	Board Game
Mac OS	Mac OS 8, Mac OS X

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Fanorona is a Java implementation of the ancient Malagasy board game of the same name, brought to the classic Mac by computer scientist David Eppstein in 1998. It lets players sit down to one of Madagascar's national pastimes without needing the traditional wooden board, stones, and an opponent across the table.About the gameFanorona is a capture game traditionally played on a 5x9 grid of intersecting lines, with capture by approach or withdrawal rather than by jumping. The Mac edition follows the standard rules and lets a single player face the computer.Java on the classic MacBecause the program is written in Java, it depends on Apple's MRJ 2.0 runtime and Mac OS 8.1 or later, running through System 9 on 68k-compatible hardware. An applet edition and source code are also hosted on the author's University of California, Irvine pages.AuthorDavid Eppstein, a computer science professor with a long-running interest in combinatorial games, packaged the program as a small Mac download alongside the web applet so players without a browser-based Java environment could still try it.