I have been playing with the idea of writing an Ataxx program since about 1994. I completed a very poor Ataxx program with a friend in that year for Windows 3.1. However, time passed, and the game was not released.
Then, in mid-1998, I decided I should learn something about Win32 (Windows95/98/NT) programming. So I picked up the code for the original Ataxx I had written with my friend in 1994. However, I decided that the code needed a full rewrite. So I discarded everything from the original project, except for the icon. :) Then, a few months later, I had a working program. It could play better than all Ataxx programs I could get my hands on, usually in the same time, or occasionally in more time, taking advantage of the limited maximum strength (search depth) of most opponent programs.
After completion of version 1.00, I was busy with
research for my Masters degree for a few months. But I managed to get
enough free time to prepare a release in mid-1999, and did so.
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