| This is not a detail history. It only summarizes significant changes.
5.7.2 (5/2/08)
5.7.1 (3/27/08)
5.7 (3/26/08)
5.6.2 (2/21/08)
5.6.1 (12/29/07)
5.6 (12/17/07)
5.5.3 (7/26/07)
5.5.1 (7.14.07)
5.4.9 (7/12/07)
5.4.8 (7/12/07)
5.4.6 (5/12/07)
5.4.3 (4/2/07)
5.4.2 (1/30/07)
5.4.1 (1/7/07)
5.4 (12/27/06)
5.3.7 (10/19/06)
5.3.5 (8/24/06)
5.3.4 (4/20/06)
5.3.2 (4/3/06)
5.3.1 (3/7/06)
5.3 (1/24/06)
5.2.3 (12/23/05)
5.2.2 (12/16/05)
5.2 (11/25/05)
5.0.4 (10/19/05)
5.0.2 (9/30/05)
5.0 (9/26/05)
4.9.9 b3 (7/7/05)
4.9.9 b2 (6/14/05)
- When playing with another person, the message "Play the BAR piece first" could be displayed and the game could not be continued - fixed.
4.9.9 (5/27/05)
- Adding the "Clear Session Data?" in version 4.9.8 caused a problem with Money Game play. Fixed now.
4.9.8 (4/25/05)
- When selecting New Session, you are asked "Clear Session Data?", to protect from accidentally selecting instead of New Game.
4.9.7 (12/23/04)
- when notepad or help were selected then closed, the speech menu was not re-populated. Now is.
4.9.6 (10/26/04)
- In Classic and OS9/8, there was not enough memory set for the game to draw the board correctly and to show the piece movement. Now okay.
4.9.5 (7/21/04)
- Added a menu item to go to the Absolute Backgammon web site
4.9.4 (4/2/04)
- with Auto Moves - if only one move and Auto Moves - Partial Moves both selected and the last turn of the game did not use all of the dice, an inappropriate message was given. Not now.
4.9.2 (3/16/04)
- Made a change to how the piece sound is generated. Hopefully fixing a rare problem where the game would go into an infinite loop when playing the piece sound.
4.9 (12/30/03)
- NEW - Added a personality feature to the Skill menu. You can now select to have the computer opponent be aggressive, conservative or normal/best
4.8.1 (11/17/003)
- Improved the concede logic. When you concede, it gives a more realistic concede offer in some circumstances
4.8 (10/3/003)
- Doubling cube logic improved
4.7.9 (7/9/03)
- Fixed a problem that could occur when continuing a cube declined game then taking back the passing of the cube
4.7.8 (5/20/03)
- Fixed a problem that could occur when bearing off when using Easy Moves
4.7.7 (4/14/03)
- Increased the piece speed slightly after several reports of slowness with OS 10.2.5
4.7.6 (2/3/03)
- In OS 9, manual resizing of the board caused a crash sometimes. Fixed
4.7.5 (1/28/03)
- Fix - On some computers running OS 9, the Carbon version would crash when quitting the game, resulting in Preferences not being saved.
4.7.4 (1/8/03)
- improved the piece and cube movement in OS X and PPC versions
4.7 (12/25/02)
- added option to have solid piece colors instead of patterned pieces
4.6.7 (10/9/02)
- Made changes to get around sound problem introduced in OS 9.2. Piece sounds and piece movement
were not always synchronized.
4.6.6 (8/29/2002)
- Fix - Easy Moves and taking back a move with shift-click were broken in OS X because the shift and command keys down were not being recognized.
4.6.4 (7/18/2002)
- added dockOffset = 30 if OS X
4.6.2 (6/19/2002)
- Only minor changes - mostly cosmetic - This is a free upgrade for registered users of 4.5 or later or those that have registered in the last 6 months. 4.6 (4/9/2002) - NEW - Carbon version now works with OS 9 as well as OS X
- NEW - there is now also a PPC version of 4.6 -- previously 4.3.6 was
the last PPC version 4.5.2 (3/13/02) - Resolved the speed problems with the OS X version
- piece speed, program startup and cube speed 4.5.1 (2/19/02) - Increased piece movement speed. Piece movement
was too slow on slower/older Macs. 4.5 (2/18/02) - First OS X-Carbon version - Has the same features
and functionality as 4.3.6 4.3.6 (1/27/02) - The routine that put the web page address or
the 3 letter ID into the clipboard was not working correctly 4.3.5 (12/24/01) - Improved the Rolls Remaining algorithm for
better late game evaluations. Affects the computer's moves and cube
play. 4.3 (11/22/01) - Changed the piece color back to red on the
default board color (greenblack) 4.2.1 (9/22/2001) - Fixed a problem with Show Possible Moves. The
red rectangle was not being cleared properly under a certain situation.
4.2 (9/8/2001) - Improved money session features 4.1 (8/5/2001) - A few minor enhancements/changes 4.0 (5/14/2001) - New position rollout feature. Read the Position
Rollout help for more information 3.9.5(2/13/2001) - Fixed a problem that could crash the game at
the very end of the game - mostly on older Macs 3.9.4(12/2000) - Fix - with Automatically Move Partial Moves
selected could cause problem on first roll 3.9.3(11/26/2000) - Took out a test message left in inadvertently
in 3.9.1 & .2 3.9.2(11/23/2000) - Added an item in the Registration menu to go
to the game download web page 3.9.1 (9/28/2000) - Added Command C for conceding 3.9 (8/29/2000) - Improved the computer's use of the doubling
cube - more improvements will be in the next version 3.8 (7/1/2000) - Improved the computer's use of the doubling
cube 3.7.4 (5/9/2000) - Took out Sound Volume control -- fixes a problem
with sound levels and channel balance problems on some machines. 3.7.2 (4/20/2000) - Fixed a potential problem with Replay with
same dice 3.7.1 (3/17/2000) - Fixed a problem with garbled speech sometimes.
3.7 (3/15/2000) - Automatic Moves has been taken out of Easy+Automatic
- seperate menu item now 3.6.1 (3/7/2000) - took out a test message that was mistakenly
left in v3.6 3.6 (3/5/2000) - Enhanced the Auto Moves feature to include
bearing off and when there is only one choice for the move 3.4 (2/22/2000) - This version has many changes in the code to
accomodate a new version of the compiler -- hopefully for the better.
3.0.3 (1/7/2000) - Fixed a problem caused by the changes that
smoothed the piece animation in 3.0.2. 3.0.2 (1/4/2000) - Smoothed the piece animation when you move
a piec. 3.0.1 (1/1/2000) - Piece movement on some systems was somewhat
jerky. Now is smoother. 3.0 (12/24/99) - Added Save Game On Exit option to the Game
menu 2.9.5(11/16/99) - Added new board color 2.9.3 (10/27/99) - Improves game play when is speech used. Action
continues after speech starts in some situations so you don't have to
wait for it to finish. 2.9.1 (9/17/99) - Fixes a compatibility problem with some processors/systems
2.9 (9/15/99) - Improved the computer player's skill 2.8.9 (7/26/99) - Added the ability to toggle between displaying
the session score and pipcount by clicking in the score area 2.8.8 (6/15/99) - Money Game Play option was added 2.8.6/2.8.7 (6/4/99) - Fixes a problem introduced in 2.8.5 2.8.5 - all changes put in this version are put
into 2.8.6 - Added First Rolls Won to Session Stats and
More Scores 2.8.4 (5/4/99) - Fix to registration/demo code 2.8 (4/21/99) - Option to continue to play a game after a double
has been declined by either player 2.7.7 (3/20/99) - Several minor changes were made 2.7.6 (6/15/99) - Increased maximum board size to fill up 17
inch monitor 2.7.4 - Added Game and Session statistics to the Stats
menu 2.7.2 - Fixes a problem that can crash some machines
if "3 Letter ID" menu item selected twice 2.7.1 - Made several minor changes. 2.7 - Added option to select 4 or 2 dice on doubles.
- Fixed a couple of minor bugs 2.6 - Added 4 dice being display when doubles. 2.5.4 - Fixed problem loading custom board when no
preferences file - Fixed problem when "Show Row Numbers"
turned off causing a problem on startup on some machines. 2.5.2 - Added Winner Rolls First 2.5 - added Pick Up Only 1 Piece option - made it
the default 2.4 - Added Tournament Stats to Stats menu- took
off bottom of board frame 2.3 - Fixed the Custom Colors code and documentation
2.2 - Added the AutoPass option 2.1.5 - Improved handling of large monitors and 16
& 32 bit color depths 2.1.3 - Improved computer skill handling the doubling
cube in a running game 2.1 - Fixed the Tournament problem with the score
and doubling 2.0.5 - Much better low memory handling 2.0.4 - Put in Piece Shape option 2.0.3 - Improved computer play skill 2.0.2 - some minor changes and enhancements 2.0.1 - improved computer play skill |