I’d tried to apply what I’d learnt to the Minesweeper app. The object is to open all safe squares in the quickest time possible. Minesweeper is a logic game where mines are hidden in a grid of squares. At University, a few of my modules were about systems analysis and design using UML. MineX - Classic Minesweeper for Mac OS X, supports retina display, game statistics (3bv, 3bv/s, IOE.), Game Center leaderboards, all mouse click techniques and game replay. Whilst restoring files to the new MacBook Pro, I found the TurtleMine folder and found all the analysis and design documentation I’d written. I stopped supporting it back in 2006 so wasn’t really expecting much. I recently bought a new MacBook Pro 2016 model and was curious to see if the app still worked in macOS Sierra (it was originally written for Classic Mac OS (8.6-> 9.x) and MacOS 10.1 -> 10.5. In the summer of 2001 I set about creating a Minesweeper clone for the Mac. An equivalent development on the Mac was REALbasic (which has recently been taken over by Xojo) which I started using in my spare time whilst studying at University. I played the game quite a lot and couldn’t find a clone that did the Windows version justice.ĭuring my time at College I wrote a number of applications in Visual Basic 6 and was quite comfortable with how it worked. One thing I missed when moving to the Mac however was Windows Minesweeper. I loved that computer, it was bullet proof compared to previous Windows PCs I’d owned. It was a iMac G3 266Mhz running MacOS 8.6.

I’ve mentioned a few times on various blog posts that I got my first Mac back in 1999.

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