Cello

Graphically Cello is appealing but a bit odd. The graphics are 256-color, only the unnecessarily incompatible palettes require hi-color, and were obviously designed for a 640×400 display: if you stretch the screenshot 20% vertically, the pieces will become perfectly circular. The marble background provides a stark contrast to the mundane window with its run-of-the mill icons. A nice touch is the busy cursor in form of a coffee cup. The toughest difficulty setting is called Coffee Break, probably because you can take one while the program figures out its next move.

There is one annoying habit that has to be reported. Cello allows saving games. These savegames have the not uncommon extension SAV. The annoying part is that whenever you start it, Cello registers itself as the default program to open SAV files. It even has a special icon for them. There is absolutely nothing you can do about that.

Cello runs under Win32s. It needs 64k colors minimum for best viewing.

Steckbrief

• Concept: Othello
• Author: James P. Ivers
• Year: 1997
• Country of Origin:

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• Cello (351kB, ZIP)