FIR - Five In a Row for PalmOS(R)

FIR board FIR board FIR board FIR Options dialog

What

Fir is a "tic-tac-toe"-like two-player game, where each player has a designated symbol. The objective is to get five symbols in a line, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. The players take turns placing their symbol in an unused square. The player who achieves the objective first has won.

How to play

Symbols: You are X, the computer is O.
Placing symbols: Tap on an empty square.
Hint: You can get a hint to where to place your symbol by tapping the "Hint" button.
Auto Play: You can watch the computer play against itself by tapping the "Auto" button. To turn auto play off, tap button or board again.
Start new game: start a new game by tapping the "New Game" button.

For which platform

Platforms running PalmOS(R) ROM versions 3.0 and higher. Color is supported for devices that have color.

Under what conditions

The game is free software distributed under the GNU General Public Licence version 2.
Important: FIR comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details read the licence.
FIR is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; read the licence for details.

Where

You can get the game here. The game is distributed as a gzipped tar (tgz) archive containing the source and a compiled binary for the game. For a windows program to open this archive with, see www.winzip.com.

Misc.

Version: the current game version is 1.0 build 90

Bugs: Please report bugs to staal ta dsg dot harvard dot edu
If you find the game useful or use parts of it, please let me know.
Have fun!


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Last modified: Tue Sep 4 18:46:16 2001