MineSweeper

<body stylesrc="index.html" background="images/linoleum.gif" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000">  <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><h1 align="center"><img src="images/mines.gif" align="top" hspace="5" width="40" height="40"></h1> </td> <th align="left" width="100%"><h1 align="center"><font color="#004080" size="6">M</font><font color="#008080" size="6">ine</font><font color="#004080" size="6">S</font><font color="#008080" size="6">weeper</font></h1> </th> <td><h1 align="center"><a href="http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html"><img src="images/ribbon.gif" alt="Join the blue ribbon campaign" align="top" border="0" hspace="5" width="43" height="69"></a></h1> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="left"> </p> <div align="center"><center> <table border="2"> <tr> <td><a href="MineSweeperB.html">Beginner (Color)</a></td> <td><a href="MineSweeperI.html">Intermediate (Color)</a></td> <td><a href="MineSweeperE.html">Expert (Color)</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="MineSweeperB_bw.html">Beginner (BW)</a></td> <td><a href="MineSweeperI_bw.html">Intermediate (BW)</a></td> <td><a href="MineSweeperE_bw.html">Expert (BW)</a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p> </p> <h3><font color="#DD0000">Instructions</font></h3> <p>The purpose of the game is to open all the cells of the board that do not contain a bomb. You lose if you set off a bomb cell.</p> <p>Every non-bomb cell you open will tell you the total number of bombs in the eight neighboring cells. Once you are sure that a cell contains a bomb, you can right-click to put a flag it on it as a reminder. After you have flagged all the bombs around an open cell, you can quickly open the remaining non-bomb cells by shift-clicking on the cell.</p> <p>To start a new game (abandoning the current one), just click on the yellow face button.</p> <p>Happy mine hunting!</p> <p> </p> <h3><font color="#DD0000">History</font></h3> <p>I originally wrote a prototype of this program during a weekend as sample code to show at a job interview. The interview didn't work out (selfish shameless plug: if you're hiring, please take a look at my <a href="Resume.html">resume</a>), but something good came from it: MineSweeper! It took me another couple of weeks of work to complete/debug it, and here it is.</p> <p>MineSweeper was/is, in the author's intentions (that would be me), a Java standalone application, from which the applet you see was obtained by removing all that functionality that did not comply to the applet security restrictions. If you like the applet, consider downloading and/or setting up the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in your computer, in order to run MineSweeper in all its glory. You don't need the entire Java Developers Kit (JDK), as you can find a compiled version of the standalone application included in the source code downloadable from this page.</p> <p> </p> <h3><font color="#DD0000">Copyright notices</font></h3> <p>I have to give credit where credit is due: most (all?) of the graphics and user interface conventions are the same as the original Windows version, and therefore copyrighted by Robert Donner and Curt Johnson, Microsoft Corporation.</p> <p>All the source code, however, is (unless clearly stated otherwise) intellectual property of Roberto Virga, Carnegie Mellon University.</p> <p>Please <a href="mailto:rvirga+@cs.cmu.edu">notify</a> me if you're going to use part of the MineSweeper source and/or bytecode in your {applet, application, web page, whatever}.</p> <p> </p> <h3><font color="#DD0000">Sources</font></h3> <ul> <li><a href="archive/MineSweeper.zip">ZIP archive (59 KB)</a></li> <li><a href="archive/MineSweeper.tar.gz">TAR.GZ archive (40KB)</a></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.gamelan.com/"><img src="http://www.gamelan.com/stickers/gamelanbutton.gif" border="0" width="197" height="43"></a></p>  </body>