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=====Some background information=====
The author, Tom Lai, is currently working in
his first year as a Network Software Developer
in the beautiful province of British Columbia,
Canada. He gets by with just enough knowledge
in network drivers (VxD and NT driver model),
NDIS, TDI-client, SETUPX, Windows NT setup
script, thunking, TCP/IP, MFC, Windows API's,
serial communication, AI, and some hardware
design skills. In his off-time, he's a big
fan of any enjoyable games: RPG, arcade,
strategy, adventure, you name it.
The week before this game was created, the
author was really frustrated looking for a
simple yet enjoyable strategy/board games,
either Shareware or Commercial. He found out
that most of today's strategy games are just
too complicated, requiring long playing time
per game and a steep learning curve. One
morning, the author woke up with an ambition
to implement Chinese Checkers on Windows.
(It's a game that the author loved during his
childhood.) "So what if it fails, I won't get
a peer code review for this anyway! Also, I
can use this project to sharpen up my 32-bit
Windows programming skills." That memorable
day was October 1, 1997. The first beta
version was finished about a month after that.
=====Development Resources=====
Championship Chinese Checkers (32-bit) is
compiled using MSVC 4.0. The player bitmaps
were taken from CrystalVision's royalty-free
cartoon clip-art CD. And the splash bitmap is
the work of a Chinese historical artist. The
voice recording were done from a friend,
Christine Rauchensteiner (sure sounds great!).
I like to thank her for allowing me to use her
voice files freely for the sole purpose of
Championship Chinese Checkers. I also like to
thank another friend, Rob Holstein, for the
tremendous feedbacks and corrections he made
on the game throughout the development stages.