I know, I know – TicTacToe? How useless right? Perhaps, perhaps not! Certainly wasn’t for me, but I did it not so I could play TicTacToe, I did it to see if I could write programs for a device like this. Maybe your kids will like it? lol
I’ve been a computer programmer since the late 70s, but have never attempted to write for anything other than the PC since it came out in the early 80s. My Samsung Instinct got me to try. First, let me say that I didn’t actually write this game, it’s a port of a Java Applet that comes with the Java SDK from Sun.
I’ve run into a few issues in porting this – mainly the Instinct’s lack of true LCDUI support. So many functions are not supported – like pointer events? Wow, of all the phones that need that, the Instinct is certainly one.
So I dumped the LCDUI approach and started down the road with LWUIT – it at least supports pointer events. LWUIT is a real nice package and provides lots of power that I am not using in this port – theming for TicTacToe just doesn’t seem useful to me.
Anyway, here’s my first release of this port. I had to disable sounds in this because Sprint has RESTRICTED acess to a media player that works worth a damn. The one I can use, works, but the volume is so low that it is not acceptable. And Sprint did not expose any way for me to control the volume, so I just removed the sounds for now.
I added a score tally bar – scores are not saved and are only viable for your current game session. I am working on completing the winning line draw – it currently works for some wins, but not all.
Please visit Instinct-Software.com – I now do all the distribution of my apps through that site.
Enjoy! Repeat as needed!
Let me know of any problems please.
