Carambola is a fun, simple, and easy to learn computer simulation game of the classical Three Balls Billiards, also called French Billiards or Carom Billiards. The game's goal is to use one ball to hit the other two in a single shot, this is called 'carambola' in spanish. In a multiplayer game, you keep shooting as long as you make a carambola, and the winner is the one with the most carambolas accumulated. Your knowledge and perception of real world physics are at test here. Try to predict the collision and bounce path before you shoot in order to make a carambola. You can select different game options such as the table cloth color, the table quality (cushions and cloth friction), for beginners there is a shot helper, and for experts the diamond guides and the three cushions scoring mode. There are several other options for you to discover, including an Online Game Mode to play remotely against other players. Universal Binary (PPC/Intel) • Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. Carambola
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Maximum Pool v1.06 plays fine on a Power Mac G4 (MDD 2003) running Mac OS X 10.2.3. I had to install the game from the original CD copy using Mac OS 9.2.2 and apply the v1.06 patch on Mac OS X 10.2.3 to make it compatible with both operating systems. Carom Billiards is the most realistic and closest to reality billiards simulation available on store. A game of carambole is played with 2 players, each playing with a yellow or white ball. With their ball, players must hit simultenaeously the two other balls. Carom billiard (three-cushion, balkline, 4 ball)'s lesson and practice for mobile users. Position image, hint image, demonstration video, lesson video. Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or 'counts' by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball on a single shot. The invention as well as the exact date of origin of carom billiards is somewhat obscure but is thought to be traceable to 18th-century France.
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The traditional titles are all present: Basic Pocket Billiards, Carom Billiards, Cutthroat, Eight Ball, Nine Ball, Rotation, and Snooker. There are instructions available for each, in case you need a quick refresher on the rules or haven't tried one out before.
While the classic games are fine and dandy, you might be interested to explore the five new 'cool' games included with Maximum Pool as well. With names like 24 Cents, Mad Bomber, Chameleon Ball, Poker, and Rocket Ball, you can guess they're not something you'd find in a pool hall. Here's a quick rundown of each:
Each 'cool' game has its own corresponding 'cool' table to play on. Or, you can also choose to use the normal table. The new tables are all sorts of shapes, from triangles to an hourglass-like table for Poker.
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(v1.0, with v1.06 updaters included)
System Requirements
Installation notes from Katie Cadet:
For Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users or for those without Classic Environment on all versions of Mac OS X up to Leopard, a manual copy of the 'MaximumPool' folder from the CD to the hard drive would do the trick! Don't forget to apply the v1.06 patch (pool106updaterx.hqx, not the Mac OS 9 version) to make it fully compatible with the latest PowerPC Mac OS X. I've done this for my November 2018 testing on my G5 iMac running Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard, no issues found!