Kaboooom

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Kaboooom
Author:	Thomas Eldridge II (USA)
Initial release:	November 1989
Latest release:	Original Version
OS:	DOS, Windows XP or earlier
Language(s):	English
Genre:	RLogic Clones
Status:	Freeware
Website:	No Homepage
Download:	Not Available

Kaboooom is a clone of Relentless Logic written by Thomas Eldredge II (USA) in November 1989 for DOS.

1 Features
2 Place in History
3 Sourcecode
4 Screenshots

[edit] Features

A new feature was the ability to mark adjacent squares with a '0' for safe and an 'X' for a mine. It was still possible to step on a marked mine, but you could prevent this by running the program in a special safety mode. Another feature was giving a number to each square after you moved away. This number served the same function as a number in Minesweeper. Kaboooom also had a solver - if you pressed '?' the game would open or mark all squares logically solvable at that point in the game.

[edit] Place in History

Kaboooom predates Minesweeper possibly had the first solver for this game genre. Marking mines and showing numbers were not new, having been introduced in the earlier RLogic clone XMines. However, Kaboooom seems to have developed the marking of mines seperately, as XMines used a mouse to mark mines and automatically prevented you from stepping on marks.