Connect 4

Miles Michelson's Connect 4, originally a Macintosh game, is highly configurable; there are ten board sizes from 6×5 to 14×12, eight difficulty settings (even the lower ones are quite formidable), and you can choose whether three, four, five, or six in a row wins. The graphics, too, are remarkable.

Unfortunately, Miles Michelson's Windows port of his own game does not quite live up to the Macintosh original. The graphics suffered a bit due to conversion of the Windows palette. Then, the palette of some of the bitmaps got corrupted, and the graphics won't display correctly unless the game is run under hi-color at least.

But it still is a Connect Four with good graphics and a strong AI. And it runs under Win32s, which makes it, as far as I know, the only Connect-4 with 256 color graphics that can be played on Windows 3.1.

Steckbrief

• Concept: Connect Four
• Author: Miles Michelson
• Year: 1999
• Country of Origin:

Download

• Connect 4 1.1.8 (139kB, ZIP)

Links

• The Macintosh original