Carom Billards Mac OS
Carom Billards Mac OS
Carom billiard is played on a billiard table without pockets and with a set of 3 balls: one red and two white of which one is marked. The player must use the cue ball to make contact with the other two balls on the table in order to score 1 point. There are several different carom. The basics training program is not only a useful guide for beginners into the fascinating world of carom billiards but also advanced players can improve and control their technique. The effects are systematically tought - separately as well as in combination - by means of exercises. A collection of training games guarantees lots of fun.
| FooBillard | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Florian Berger |
| Platform(s) | AROS, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, MorphOS, Microsoft Windows, Android |
| Release | 2002 |
| Genre(s) | Sports |
FooBillard is a free and open-source, OpenGL-based sportssimulationvideo game.
Gameplay and features[edit]
FooBillard supports several kinds of billiard games: carom billiards (three-cushion billiards), snooker, and pool billiard (pocket billiards) in the eight-ball and nine-ball variant.
FooBillard has a realistic physics engine and a computer opponent AI. It features an optional red/green 3D stereo view (requires anaglyph 3D glasses), a free view mode and an animated cue.
History[edit]
FooBillard was started around 2002 by Florian Berger. The cue sports simulator is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Originally implemented for Linux it was and ported to AROS, Mac OS X,[1]MorphOS and Windows. The most recently released version is 3.0a.
As the original FooBillard has not been under development for many years, the Foobillard++ project was created around 2011 as continuation of the game's development.[2] Latest version of FooBillard++ 3.42 was from 2012. An Androidport was created around 2014.[3]
Reception[edit]
Foobillard was reviewed in 2005 by Chip.de and noted for the 'beautiful graphic' and 'realistic physic'.[4]Between 2002 and 2016 the game was downloaded 1,470,000 times from Sourceforge.[5]
The game is also included in many Linux distributions, e.g. Ubuntu[6] and OpenSUSE.[7]
How To Play Carom Billiards
References[edit]
Three Cushion Carom Billiards
- ^Mac Version of FooBillardArchived 2008-09-24 at the Wayback Machine on softpedia.com
- ^Foobillard++ on sourceforge.net
- ^foobillarddemo on play.google.com
- ^Foobillard on chip.de (2005)
- ^foobillard - stats on sourceforge.net
- ^foobillard on apps.ubuntu.com
- ^Foobillard on opensuse.org
External links[edit]
- foobillard on SourceForge.net – original project by Florian Berger
- foobillard++ on SourceForge.net – continuation
Mac Os Versions
Carom Billards Mac OS