3D Tic Tac Toe Program
History
This program was on the IBM 1800, the lab computer, when I was a graduate student at IU (1970-1974). IBM had written it in the 1950s as a demo of their new invention, FORTRAN. The program's input and output was 3D coordinates (I had written a graphics display for a graphics CRT we had in the lab; it's impossible to play 3D tic tac toe in your head). I brought the program to UofL but never did anything with it. We, of course, did not have the same CRT.
To give me something to do, I converted the program to visual basic so it had a graphics display but input was still 3D coordinates. Again to give me something to do, I changed it to point and click to input moves.
Note: The program is a PC program. It plays a good game, but it can be beaten.
Instructions:
1) download the zip file below to any temporary location
2) unzip the three files to any temp location
3) double click on the setup.exe file. This will install the program ttt3d.exe and its data file ttt3d.dat to c:/Program Files/ttt3d and put a shortcut in the program list one gets from Start (you may also add a desktop shortcut)
5) all the files in the temp location may be deleted