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Yay! Now, the the first step is done and a computer opponent is added to the game. Next and last step will be the network code.
Stay tuned…
Download & Project page
Windows package: http://threet.googlecode.com/files/3t_winXP_1.0.zip
Source package: http://threet.googlecode.com/files/3t_sources_1.0.zip
Project page: http://code.google.com/p/threet/
Have fun with the game…

I don’t know why, but the idea of programming a text based version of Tic Tac Toe was bothering me for days and after coding hours in PHP for another project, I needed some “refreshment” and started to code this game.
Because it’s a game with a simple structure, the first implementation was not so much work to do, but lacks of a computer opponent, so you only can play it on one PC with two human players, but implementing an “AI” will be the next step for me.

Screenshot
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As long as there is no device like the /dev/zero from unix on windows and no other alternative build in (or at least I don’t any), I decided (also out of some boredom) to write a tiny C program providing such functionality.
With the DevZero program you can create files of a given size of bytes, filled with null characters (0×00).

It is not really a device like a /dev/zero in unix and has a quite limited functionality, but feel free to expand or modify it, if you have some great ideas.
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