CyberBoard Beta Number 4 Now Available

From: dlarson@execpc.com (Dale Larson)

Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Hi,

Beta number 4 of CyberBoard is now available at my web site:

http://www.execpc.com/~dlarson/cyberboard.html

This version primariy contains bug fixes. I highly suggest you upgrade to it
if you're using Beta 3 due to a bug in the way game histories were handled.
There are also a couple new minor features.

Enjoy!

For those not familiar with CyberBoard a summary follows.

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The following lists some of CyberBoard's features:

- Emulates real life game components (boards, pieces, markers...).
  GameBox files hold the boards, pieces, markers etc. Scenario files
  contain the starting situation of a particular game. Game files
  hold the current state of a game as well as it's entire history of play.
- A game designer program is used to actually design the components of a game.
- A game player program is used to create scenarios and actually play the
  PBEM game.

Game Designer Program Features:

- Graphical bitmap editor for manipulating tiles. A global transparent
  color can be defined to allow non-rectangular tiles.
- Free form graphics editor for drawing lines, rectangles, ellipses, and
  polygons.
- Each board has three sizes: full scale, half scale and small scale.
- Board editing is done on three drawing layers: A grid layer is wedged
  between two free form drawing layers.
- Create two sided playing pieces.
- Create graphical marker tiles for marking various things during game play.
- Boards can use Hex grids (two varieties), brick grids, and rectangular
  grids. The grid lines can be hidden.
- Snap grids.
- Other stuff I can't remember right now.

Game Player Program Features:

- A scenario designer allows you to layout the starting positions of a game
  and also allows you to define what game boards and playing pieces are to
  be used. The pieces that are in play are placed in trays or on a board.
  Trays are defined in the scenarios. All game play start with a Scenario
  file.
- Moves are exchanged in a small recorded move file so they can be EMailed
  to your opponents.
- Auto stacking of pieces.
- Flipping two sided pieces.
- Rotation of playing pieces for indicating facings.
- Two playing piece tray windows.
- A single marker window used to gain access to graphical markers.
- Allows plotted moves so your opponents can see exactly the path taken
  when you moved your pieces.
- Text messages can be sent any time while you're recording your moves.
- Maintains entire history of a game.
- Other stuff I can't recall right now.

Dale Larson
NorseSoft
dlarson@execpc.com