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Richard's Curling Game

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Category:	Sports
Perspective:	Top Down
Year released:	1996
Author:	Richard Woloshyn (Gluonic Systems Research)
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richards_curling_game.sit (462.23 KB)
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For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9

Emulation
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Inspired by Ingemar's Skiing Game, I decided to write this game as a tribute to Manitoba's curling champions, past, present and future.

Putting curling on the computer presents a certain number of problems. First, in real life a curling rink is about 10 times longer than it is wide, a geometry that would not be feasible to adopt on a computer screen. I have used a ratio of 5:1 with stones relatively larger than in the real game. This simplifies the game, but, I hope, not too much.

Due to the lack of space and to keep the game moving at a reasonable rate, the number of stones per end has been reduced from 8 to 6 (or 4 as an option). Also, due to the short travel time, I have made no attempt to implement sweeping which some diehards claim is the essence of curling.

(v1.1)

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Minimum Requirements

Mac OS 7.0
640x400 display set to 16 or 256 colors

This is among the few games to specifically support the 640x400 resolution of early PowerBooks.