[olug] BillardGL review

[Eric Penne]

Review Form

<Section 1: Project information>

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Program name: BillardGL
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Version: 1.75
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Last Release Date: April 2002
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Website: http://www.tobias-nopper.de/BillardGL/index-en.html
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Binary URL:
http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~nopper/BillardGL/download/BillardGL-1.75-Setup.exe
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Binary Size: 800KB
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Source URL:
http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~nopper/BillardGL/download/BillardGL-1.75.zip
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Source Size: 800KB
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Licence: GPL
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Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Danish,
Afrikaans
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Platforms supported: Win32, OSX, Linux
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Competitors: FooBillard
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User Market: Gaming
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Installer: Yes
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Uninstaller: Yes
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<Section 2: Descriptive review>

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Description:
Shooting pool in 3D environment.

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Prerequisites:
Nvidia TNT or faster OpenGL compatible hardware acceleration
Celeron 300MHz or faster PC

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Comments Overall:

The instructions are laid out at the beginning. There is a practice
session which steps through all the things that you need to do to play.
The orientation with the mouse buttons and dragging takes a while to
get used to. The game is very similar to FooBillard but much nicer to
play.

Looks wonderful and feels like virtual reality.

This game is very difficult to master. The physics are very true to
real life. The installer is standard and easy to install.

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Screenshot URLs:

none available.

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<Section 3: Numerical review>

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Documentation: 8
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Ease-of-use: 7
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Appearance: 10
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Stability: 9 

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