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<title>Four-in-a-Row Manual</title>
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<title lang="en">Four-in-a-Row Manual</title>
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<abstract role="description">
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The object of Four-in-a-Row is to place four pieces in a vertical,
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horizontal, or diagonal row while the opponent tries to block and
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make his/her own row of four. Four-in-a-Row can be played against
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<legalnotice id="legalnotice">
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
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License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later version published
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a copy of the GFDL at this <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:fdl">link</ulink> or in the file COPYING-DOCS
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distributed with this manual.
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<para> This manual is part of a collection of GNOME manuals
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<para lang="en"> This manual is part of a collection of GNOME manuals
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distributed under the GFDL. If you want to distribute this
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manual separately from the collection, you can do so by
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adding a copy of the license to the manual, as described in
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section 6 of the license.
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Many of the names used by companies to distinguish their
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products and services are claimed as trademarks. Where those
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names appear in any GNOME documentation, and the members of
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DOCUMENT AND MODIFIED VERSIONS OF THE DOCUMENT ARE PROVIDED
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UNDER THE TERMS OF THE GNU FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE
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WITH THE FURTHER UNDERSTANDING THAT:
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<para>DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS,
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<para lang="en">DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS,
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WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR
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IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES
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THAT THE DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION OF THE
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<para>UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL
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<para lang="en">UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL
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THEORY, WHETHER IN TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE),
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CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL THE AUTHOR,
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INITIAL WRITER, ANY CONTRIBUTOR, OR ANY
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<releaseinfo revision="2.26" role="review"/>
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<revnumber>Four-in-a-Row Manual V2.8</revnumber>
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<date>Setembre de 2004</date>
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<date>September 2004</date>
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<para role="author">Timothy Musson <email>trmusson@ihug.co.nz</email></para>
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<para role="author" lang="en">Timothy Musson
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<email>trmusson@ihug.co.nz</email>
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<para role="publisher"/>
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<releaseinfo>This manual describes version 2.12 of Four-in-a-Row.
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<releaseinfo lang="en">This manual describes version 2.12 of Four-in-a-Row.
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<title>Feedback</title>
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<para>To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the Four-in-a-Row
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<title lang="en">Feedback</title>
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<para lang="en">To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the Four-in-a-Row
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application or this manual, follow the directions in the
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<ulink url="ghelp:user-guide?feedback-bugs" type="help">GNOME Feedback Page</ulink>.
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<title>Introduccion</title>
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<application>Four-in-a-Row</application> is a four-in-a-row game for the GNOME Project.
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The object of the game is to build a line of four of your marbles
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while trying to stop your opponent (human or computer) building a
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<command>gnect</command> on the command line.
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<application>Four-in-a-Row</application> is included in the <filename>GNOME-games</filename> package,
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which is part of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes
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version 2.8 of <application>Four-in-a-Row</application>.
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Four-in-a-Row also features multiplayer support with two
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human players in hotseat mode.
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<sect1 id="usage">
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<title>Basic Usage</title>
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<title lang="en">Basic Usage</title>
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<sect2 id="playing">
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<title>Playing Four-in-a-Row</title>
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<title lang="en">Playing Four-in-a-Row</title>
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To start a new game of Four-in-a-Row choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Game</guimenu><guimenuitem>New Game</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
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The <interface>game board</interface> consists of seven columns and
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six rows. Above it, a special row indicates the current player and the marble about to be played. Each move consists of dropping a marble in one of the columns. The marble lands on the topmost empty row of the chosen column.
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<para>To make a move, click on a column with the mouse. To play with the keyboard, move the marble in the top row with the left and right arrow keys, and drop it in place with the down arrow key. Your marble will drop into the topmost empty row of that column.
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<para lang="en">To make a move, click on a column with the mouse. To play with the keyboard, move the marble in the top row with the left and right arrow keys, and drop it in place with the down arrow key. Your marble will drop into the topmost empty row of that column.
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<imagedata fileref="figures/mainwindow.png" format="PNG" srccredit="trm"/>
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<phrase>Four-in-a-Row's Main Window</phrase>
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<caption><para>Four-in-a-Row's Main Window</para></caption>
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<caption><para lang="en">Four-in-a-Row's Main Window</para></caption>
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The game is won when one of the two players manages to line up four
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of his or her marbles horizontally, vertically or diagonally. If the
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board fills up without a win, the game ends in a draw.
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<title>Comandas</title>
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<para>To take back a move, choose <menuchoice>
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<shortcut><keycombo>
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<keysym>Ctrl</keysym><keycap>Z</keycap>
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</keycombo></shortcut>
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<title>Preferéncias</title>
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To change the game's settings, select
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<guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> from the
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<guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu. This opens the
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<interface>Preferences Dialog</interface>.
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<guilabel>Player One</guilabel> and
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<guilabel>Player Two</guilabel>
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Human for both Player One and Player Two.
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<title>Creating New Themes</title>
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<title lang="en">Creating New Themes</title>
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This section's included in case you'd like to make your own themes for
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<application>Four-in-a-Row</application>. It assumes you're familiar with basic text editing, graphics
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software and the command line.
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<title>Imatges</title>
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<application>Four-in-a-Row</application>'s tile sets contain six tiles of equal size, lined up
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horizontally. From left to right:
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<para>Player One's marble as it appears on the game board</para>
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<para>The game board's background</para>
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<title>An example tile set</title>
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<screeninfo>This image shows the six tiles in a tile set</screeninfo>
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<screeninfo lang="en">This image shows the six tiles in a tile set</screeninfo>
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<graphic format="PNG" fileref="figures/tileset.png" srccredit="TRM"/>
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Tiles three and four will be repeated over the game board and
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top row unless a full window background image is specified in the
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PNG format is recommended for tile sets. The first, second, fifth
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<title lang="en">TIP</title>
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of the tile sets that come with <application>Four-in-a-Row</application> use square tiles measuring
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50 pixels by 50 pixels.
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measures 7 by 7 tiles, including the top row, so the ideal background
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<title lang="en">Putting It Together</title>
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The last step is to put your image(s) where <application>Four-in-a-Row</application> can
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find them. You could put them in Four-in-a-row's install directory (which will
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directory. Those names are important, as <application>Four-in-a-Row</application> won't look
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<para>Have fun!</para>
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<para lang="en">Have fun!</para>
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<title>Autors</title>
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<application>Four-in-a-Row</application> was written by Timothy Musson (<email>trmusson@ihug.co.nz</email>)
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and David Neary (<email>bolsh@gimp.org</email>). Various others
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have taken the time to help in many ways since work on <application>Four-in-a-Row</application> began.
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The <ulink type="http" url="http://www.ce.unipr.it/~gbe/velena.html">Velena Engine</ulink>,
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<application>Four-in-a-Row</application>'s main computer player, was written by Giuliano Bertoletti.
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We're grateful to him for allowing us to include his work, without
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which <application>Four-in-a-Row</application> wouldn't be nearly as worthwhile.
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This manual was written by Timothy Musson.
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To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or
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this manual, follow the directions in this
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<ulink url="ghelp:user-guide?feedback-bugs" type="help">document</ulink>.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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<citetitle>GNU General Public License</citetitle> for more details.
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A copy of the <citetitle>GNU General Public License</citetitle> is
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included as an appendix to the <citetitle>GNOME Users
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Guide</citetitle>. You may also obtain a copy of the
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Software Foundation by visiting
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Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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