
    Welcome to PSPMANCALA - 1.0.1

Written by Ludovic.Jacomme also known as Zx-81 (zx81.zx81@gmail.com)

AI-Minimax from H. Huseby & G.T. Lines


1. INTRODUCTION
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  Mancala is a board game familly, originated in East Africa.  The word
  "Mancala" came from arabic word "naqalah" that means literaly "To move".

  PSPMancala is the "Awari" variant, and even if the rule of this game is
  simple, the complexity can be compared to chess Game.


  This package is under GPL Copyright, read COPYING file for
  more information about it.


2. INSTALLATION
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  Unzip the zip file, and copy the content of the directory fw2.x or fw1.5
  (depending of the version of your firmware) on the psp/game directory.

  It has been developped on linux for Firmware 1.5 

  For any comments or questions on this version, please visit 
  http://zx81.zx81.free.fr or http://zx81.dcemu.co.uk


3. CONTROL
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  Cross       Valid 
  Cursor      Move on the board
  Select      PSPMancala menu
  

4. COMPILATION
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  It has been developped under Linux using gcc with PSPSDK. 
  To rebuild the homebrew run the Makefile in the src archive.

5. HOW TO PLAY ? (from awari.cs.vu.nl)
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  Awari is played on a board where each player owns 6 pits.  In the initial
position, all pits are filled with four stones, thus the initial position has
48 stones. 

  The player to move chooses one of its own, nonempty pits and removes all
stones from the pit. The player then sows the stones, counterclockwise, over
the remaining pits. 

  If the last stone is sown into an enemy pit that contains 2 or 3 stones
after sowing, the stones are captured. 

  In this case, if the second last pit is also an enemy pit that contains 2 or
3 stones, they are captured as well, and this process is repeated clockwise,
until the own pit, or an enemy pit containing less than 2 or more than 3
stones is reached.

  The player who captures most stones, wins the game.  The game end when a
player cannot move, however, to avoid such a situation early in the game, it
is not allowed to do a move that leaves the opponent without countermove,
unless all moves eradicate the opponent. 


  Enjoy,
  
         Zx
