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Age of Empires III - Experience the Age of Discovery through amazing 3D graphics. Crush your enemies with devastating cannons and rifled infantry.

Navigate your naval fleet to claim strategic waterways. Build cities with towering cathedrals, and forge a thriving empire with a booming economy.

Command one of eight mighty powers grappling to conquer the New World in this new generation of the landmark Age of Empires series.
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Age of Empires III isn’t just one of the best-looking real-time strategy games ever, it’s one of the best-looking games of any kind ever.

Much like a persistent character in a role-playing game, your Home City is a support system that regularly sends you supplies or military reinforcements. As you get better, your Home City becomes stronger, allowing you to unlock new types of soldiers or buildings, broaden your tech tree, and customize the appearance of your city. You can even visit your Home City to watch its citizens, get an opinion on how you’re doing, or plot your next move.

viaverbi 1.3 is an advanced vocabulary training tool for any language based on the spaced repetition learning method. The automatic test scheduler helps you to memorize items as efficiently as possible. The intuitive user interface makes it suitable for students of any age. viaverbi is distributed as Shareware. This means you are allowed and encouraged to download and test the software without a time limit. If you want to use viaverbi on a regular basis, you must register!

Major Features:

1. Unicode support,
2. Automatic keyboard switching
3. Integration of the Mac OS X spell checker.
   

Requirements:

• Mac OS X Version 10.4 (Tiger) or newer!

Cribbage Plus! 1.1b is a new and useful cribbage game, in which you can customize your game with many other optional rules. For the purists out there, if you wish to play pure, standard cribbage, no problem! The game defaults to the standard rule set. However, if you wish, you may apply the following customizations:

• Count other numbers instead of 15. This can also be randomized so that it is a different number each hand!
• Peg to other numbers instead of 31. Just like the 15s, this can also be randomized for each hand.
• Swap a card with your opponent each hand.
• Peg points for flushes! This adds a whole new element to pegging strategy.

Also, you can pick from 3 opponents to battle with. The first is Novice Nelly. She may be new to cribbage and doesn't think all of her moves through, but she is just as likely to get good cards as anybody. Nevertheless, she should be an easy opponent to anyone with solid cribbage experience.

If you desire more of a challenge, you may play The Professor. The Professor is an expert at cribbage, and as such will prove a formidable foe for just about anyone. See if you can maintain a .500 average against him! I promise you, he isn't cheating!

However, if it is pure abuse you are after, you can choose to play against God. God (or whatever deity you see fit to play against) promises not to adjust the deal of the cards in any way shape or form. But if you were God, you'd at least be taking a glance at everybody else's cards, admit it. Well, the God you play against here is no different. It is possible to beat Him, but you're going to need cards to do it!

The game comes complete with sound effects that will harken back to a different age of video games. However, if you like, you can adjust the volume of these sound effects separately from your system. Or, if you don't like all of the bells and whistles, you can choose a less obrustive sound set, or turn them all off. It is all set in the easy to use Preferences Window.

Another feather of Cribbage Plus! is the extensive data it records about your games. Not only does it keep track of your wins and losses (grouped based on difficulty level and customization), but it keeps track of the average points scored pegging, in hands, and in cribs, for both you and your opponent. It keeps track of winning streaks (and losing streaks), and the record of your last 10 games!

Play against three difficulty levels (if you choose to register). Keep track of your win/loss record, your average scoring habits, and more statistics!

In todays world ships are behemoths of steel and electronics. Combat takes place in an almost videogame like environment, with engagements happening not hundreds of yards away but possibly hundreds of miles away. Life and death is decided by a click of the mouse, and in seconds a fleet can be sent to the bottom.
Travel back in time to an era when battles for the supremacy of the sea lanes was decided by brave men commanding massive fortresses of floating wood and cloth. No radar lock- ons, just the Mark I eyeball, and no guided missiles, just heavy orbs of iron. Battle would be joined so close together that you could practically see what your enemy had for lunch by spotting the stains on his uniform. This was an era of steel nerves and sound tactics, of sea knowledge and possessing a little bit of Poseidons own luck. Spruegames Salvo! recreates this era.
Set in the 17th through 19th centuries, also known as the Age of Sail, Salvo! is an exciting single-player game of naval warfare for Windows. Take command of the navies of England, France, the fledgling United States, and others, as you wage war in a fully realized three-dimensional environment. Relish in the sight and sound of full-scale battle, as ships are pounded into submission, rendered right there on your screen. Forget having to worry about a bunch of boring stats, as thanks to Salvos visual feedback youll always know whats going on with the fleets, from tattered sails to shattered hulls (hopefully only the enemys!).
Combat can involve a handful of ships all the way up to scores of vessels participating in a single engagement. Thanks to the innovative and highly intuitive action marker system controlling your ships is a snap. Order ships individually, or by squadron, the choice is yours.
With numerous campaigns there are plenty of scenarios that cover the gamut of warfare during the period. Especially interesting is the application of tactics between battles during the campaigns. It wont be enough to simply win a battle, players will have to win the campaign by carefully choosing when and where to fight, based on how the previous combat resulted. Failure to keep the big picture in mind may have drastic consequences, like Napoleons army marching through London!
With easy to grasp mechanics, beautiful graphics, and an excellent branching campaign structure, this is the fighting sail wargame youve always wanted!
Main features:
- Single player, turn-based game of naval warfare set during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
- Eschewing dry tables and charts, combat results are visually represented on the avatars, making combat resolution both beautiful to behold and highly functional to watch.
- Everything is rendered in full 3D and directly inspired by the artwork of the time depicting the naval battles.
- Command ships from a variety of navies that include the nations of England, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and the United States. Also get your plundering fix with the pirate hordes of Barbary and the Caribbean.
- Land and shallow water! Learn to take advantage of the environment while battling along a coastline.
- Variable winds for the ultimate combat challenge!
- Easy to use Action Marker system provides precise control for individual ships, while Salvos squadron controls allow you to direct whole groups of ships at the same time. Move, shoot, grapple, board, form a line of battle and more with just a few clicks of the mouse!
- Highly intuitive interface makes Salvo! perfect for everyone from landlubbers to old sea dogs.
- Boarding actions!
- Age of Sail chrome: fire ships and shore batteries!
- Branching campaign structure that allows the player to chart the course of the campaign and decide where next to fight. Depending on how one battle goes there can be up to a half dozen possibilities for the next scenario, allowing a huge amount of replayability.
- In between scenarios refit and upgrade ships. You can even use captured enemy vessels in your own fleet! Ships in the game include ships of the line, sloops, xebecs, frigates, gun platforms, and bombards.
- Once again, pirates!! Arrrrrrr!

EV Nova is the third game in the Escape Velocity series, and is by far the most ambitious installment to date. With a completely redesigned gaming engine, EV Nova thrusts you into a sprawling universe dominated by a myriad of warring factions, each sharing a common bond, but so philosophically different as to make conflict inevitable.
The remnants of the Colonial Councils utopian vision of a united galaxy are littered about like so many discarded dreams. The eccentric genius in Omata Kane, whose Hypergate system brought distant stars within reach, has all but been forgotten.
Like a wave in the darkness of space, colonization flowed outwards from Earth, until discord and dissent against a growingly corrupt central government caused it to come crashing down.
Open rebellion caused the destruction of critical parts of the Hypergate system, severing entire systems from the umbilical cord of civilization. They were left adrift in the lonely void of space, forced to fend for themselves, truly strangers in strange lands.
The collapse of a central government caused civilization to slide helplessly into a dark age of isolation. The few pockets of humanity that did survive developed in near solitude, clinging perilously to life like a tree desperately trying to gain root on a rocky cliff.
Enhancements:
Changes:
- corrected problem that could cause a crash when clicking on an empty square in the ship selection window
- improved handling of compressed PICT resources in plugin files
- changed some beam handling logic so that multiple fast firing beams cause the correct amount of damage
- improved collision detection when using rle8/rle16 resources.

All users of Macintosh now have a new great game - Challenge Checkers!
The game is a wonderful training for you logic force and strategy skills. You play with your device or with your partner, getting more and more experience on several skill levels. Enjoy also great graphics and sound - endless pleasure for devoted chess player of any age.
A real challenge for all checkers masters!
Main features:
- two players mode
- game autosave on exit
- demo mode with advanced AI engine
- various sound and animation effects.