A very simple but fun backgammon game.

Acey Deucey is a cool Backgammon game.

There are some things  that can be improved so feel free to let the author know about problems or give him suggestions for improving the game or the documentation. 

Here are some key features of "Absolute Acey Deucey":

￭ Includes Acey Deucey and International Backgammon
￭ Play against the Computer opponent
￭ 5 skill levels
￭ 3 personalities: Normal, Aggressive, or Conservative
￭ Choice of 5 methods to move the pieces
￭ Fast computer play
￭ Piece movement is animated - pieces DON'T just appear in the new location
￭ Can pick up multiple pieces at once
￭ Easily take back as many moves and doubles of the cube as you wish
￭ Use the voices built into OS 8/9/X
￭ Digitized sound effects
￭ Gives suggestions for moves
￭ Save your game to finish later
￭ Switch board direction and colors
￭ Setup any board situation.
￭ Helpful messages during play using speech & text
￭ Select from several beautiful board styles and sizes (only the default style is available with first release)
￭ Change the speed of piece movement
￭ Option to have winner roll first
￭ Easily (1 click) display pipcounts and remaining rolls for both players
￭ Automatic Rolls of the dice for faster play
￭ Choice of shorter dice sound for faster play
￭ Instant replay of computer's last move
￭ Option to show possible moves when a piece is picked up or when a piece is passed over
￭ Select to pick up either 1 piece at a time or multiple pieces
￭ Keeps game and sessions statistics as well as running/cumulative statistics.
￭ Option to automatically make moves for you if there is no choice.
￭ Can take advantage of a 2 button mouse.
￭ Can print the details of the game
￭ Can save a picture of the board during play
￭ Can choose to have the dice, to be used in the game, saved to a file before the game starts
￭ Can select to use the computer's dice rolls instead of yours (for those that think the computer gets better dice rolls)


Requirements:

￭ CarbonLib


Limitations:

￭ In the demo, you will be able to finish a random half of the games (for as long as you wish).This is to give you a chance to see if you like the game before purchasing.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· NEW in 3.0 - Dutch Backgammon has been added to the already included Acey Deucey and Backgammon.
· NEW in 3.0 - Exact Bearoff has been implement as an option for backgammon
· Fixed a problem with Suggestions with Dutch Backgammon
· Fixed a problem with scoring in Dutch Backgammon
· It works with Leopard and Intel macs
· Check out the other attractive board styles/skins that can be used with the game at: http://bestbackgammon.com/aceydeucey/html/otherboards.htm