BallTriX

Paul Benenson first wrote BallTriX as a learning experiment in Visual Basic 4.0, but later rewrote it in C for better performance and a smaller executable. Compared to Color linez, BallTriX is far less fancy: The two figurines on their pillars are gone, there is no wobbly animation for the balls, and even the balls themselves are not as nicely drawn.

But it is far more customable: You can choose how big the playing field is, how many balls appear in each turn, how many balls in a row you must have before they vanish, and whether or not you get a free turn when you clear a row. The window can be resized at will. The screenshot above shows BallTriX running in the smallest possible window under Windows 3.1 with Win32s, click on it and you see how it starts by default under Windows 95 and above.

Steckbrief

• Concept: Color Lines
• Author: Paul Benenson
• Year: 1997
• Country of Origin:

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