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Ready for a new version of backgammon, made especially for OS X! Try this attractive and easy to use version of the game.
Has many features including 5 different methods to move the pieces including your voice, 5 skill levels for all levels of play and, along with the default board, you can use many other attractive boards.
Can be played using English,German,French,Spanish,Dutch or Italian.
Uses speech and also works with OS 8 and 9 (requires CarbonLib)
For those concerned that the dice rolls might not be random, the game has an option to save the dice rolls, to be used in the game, to a file in the game folder before the game starts. There is also and option to ask if you want to use your dice rolls or the computer's dice rolls. With these 2 options selected, even the most skeptical can be assured that the game is not cheating. Also, you can check the stats that the game keeps to assure you that the dice rolls are random and not favoring either player.
Works with Leopard and Intel Macs!
What's new in this version:
- in some endgame situations, the computer would offer a double, when a gammon was possible, when it shouldn't. Fixed. After checking it appears the problem was created during extensive code changes in version 6.0
- enjoy the many board beautiful and interesting board styles to chose from
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.0
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Something smells fishy - Version: 6.1.6, 6/22/2009 12:52PM PST
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- Something smells fishy
Backgammon 6.1.5 for Mac 
- Version: 6.1.5, 5/18/2009 04:11PM PST
thatjoe
Backgammon for the Mac 
- Version: 6.1.4, 4/25/2009 01:48PM PST
kevinwparker
I've only played it for two days but am fairly pleased so far. It took some getting used to as some of the details on how to pick up and put down pieces differed from the old MacGammon (or whatever it was called). Once I got settled in to that, I was satisfied.
Appearance is good, game play is good. I'm running with the default settings right now for the opponent, who seems remarkably aggressive to me, leaving pips exposed that I would never leave exposed, even to send one back. It seems to be at a competitive level for me, neither too stupid nor totally beyond me.
I have some sympathy for the "cheating" accusations as it seems to be very good at getting doubles right after the stakes are raised. But I thought that about the old game, too, so I'm assuming it's just some quirk of human psychology.
I don't know what sort of alternatives there are out there, but I'm pretty happy with this one.
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Pass me a herring.