Tasholiiwe v1.0s is a  256 color shareware version of an ancient Anasazi
game.  The name 'Tasholiiwe' is Zuni Indian for 'wooden dice', which is also the name of their version of this game, but this is far from an exclusively Zuni game.  Take a map of the U.S. and divide it roughly in the middle -- right through the Great Plains -- forming a west and east half.  This game, Tasholiiwe, under various names and forms, was played by many of the tribes inhabiting the western half of the division from very ancient times.  Its most notable and prominent forms come from the Zuni, Hopi, Navajo, and Kiowa Apache, but many other tribes had versions -- the Laguna, the Commanche, the Cheyenne, the Keres, the Walapai, the Havasupai, the Tigua, the Shoshone, etc., etc.  It is a very ancient, and venerable, game and may be older than even the Anasazi themselves who surely played it.    

Tasholiiwe was used in a religious and ritualistic sense for divination -- the throw of the sticks was thought to be able to tell the future -- forecast war or peace, prosperity or famine, joy or sorrow.  It is said that even today, the game is used by many of the Pueblo tribes to bring rain.  This game requires VBRUN300.DLL to play.

TASHO.ZIP should yield the following program files when un-zipped:

README   TXT
HORSE10  WAV
BUMP10   WAV
BUMP11   WAV
BUMP1    WAV
BUMP2    WAV
BUMP3    WAV
BUMP4    WAV
BUMP5    WAV
BUMP6    WAV
BUMP7    WAV
BUMP8    WAV
BUMP9    WAV
HORSE1   WAV
WINIT    WAV
HORSE2   WAV
HORSE3   WAV
HORSE4   WAV
HORSE5   WAV
HORSE6   WAV
HORSE7   WAV
HORSE8   WAV
HORSE9   WAV
PROLOG   WAV
RAIN1    WAV
RAIN2    WAV
STICK1   WAV
STICK2   WAV
STICK3   WAV
STICK4   WAV
WATER1   WAV
WATER2   WAV
WATER3   WAV
WATER4   WAV
TASHO    HLP
TASHO    EXE
TASHO2   MID
ANASAFAC TXT
TASHO1   MID

Tasholiiwe is written in Visual Basic 3.0.   As such it
requires that VBRUN300.DLL exists in your Windows System directory.	

If you have trouble installing the game on your system you can 
contact me by:

E-Mail at:

CompuServe: 74212,1123  or  

Internet: 	psneeley@compuserve.com
	or	psneeley@bigfoot.com
	or	psneeley@vii.com

or by Mail:

Steve Neeley
248 W. 3325 N.
North Ogden, UT 84414

You can also come by my homepage at:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PSNeeley

To install Tasholiiwe, please do the following:

1. Check that VBRUN300.DLL is in your Windows System directory.  If not,
   please download a copy (there should be a copy on the BBS from which
   you downloaded TASHO.ZIP or you can get it from my homepage above).

2. Create a directory TASHO.

3. Copy all the files 'unzipped' from TASHO.ZIP 
   to this new TASHO directory.

4. Create a program manager icon for TASHO.EXE by adding it as a file
   in your GAMES program manager group.

That's it.

Thanks for trying Tasholiiwe.  I hope it's challenging, fun, and 
educational at the same time.

Steve
