Christian Jung

Software Development & Sales

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presents:

The Red Nine

for Windows95

Cordially welcome to this interesting card game. The rules of the game for Red Nine are simple.

- The basic rules of Red Nine

- Laying down and drawing of cards

- Adjustable rules of the game

- Program settings

- Sound settings

- The calculation of the points for the high score

- The size of the cards

- Red Nine and the ASP

Important: Red Nine is a genuine 32bit program, this means, it will work only with Windows 95 and Windows NT. It is not executable under Windows 3.1.

Last but not least I would like to thank Wilfried Lottermoser, Ellsworth Hall, Josef Nell and all others who have been of great help.

Christian Jung


ASP
 Red Nine and the ASP

This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help.

The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members’ products.

Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MT 49442-9427 USA, Fax 616-788-2765 or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.


The size of the cards

If you use a resolution of 640x480, the cards in the lower row can not be seen in full. You can solve this problem as follows:

Draw the button-bar that you find under the menu to an other place of your choice. Click the edge of the bar with the mouse and draw it e.g. to the right side of the screen.

Therefore all cards move to the top and all can be seen.


Laying down and drawing of cards

There are two possibilities to lay down a card:

- Click it with the left mouse button and draw across the deck

- Click it with the right mouse button

To draw a card of the deck just click on the deck.


Rules of the game
The rules of the game

The target of the game is to be the first to discard of all cards. This is relatively simple to implement, since each player may put down cards till this is no longer possible. Then, he has to draw from the deck. After that it’s the next players turn.

A card may be laid down if it matches in color (Hearts, Diamonds, Spades, Clubs) or is the same type as the top card of the deck. The Red Nine (Hearts or Diamonds) is therefore the Joker. If one lays a Red Nine, one can choose any card to follow.

The Black Nine also has a special meaning:

If you lay a Spade Nine, the deck will be blocked until a player releases it with a Red Nine.

If one lays the Clubs Nine, following happens: A Red Nine has to be put down otherwise the player gets 9 points deducted for each card in hand.

In the registered version of Red Nine you have the additional possibility

Basically that is all you need to know. In the fullversion of Red Nine you have the additional possibility, to change the rules of the game.


Calculating points
The calculation of the points

The scores of the cards

The player who has put down his cards first gets all the points from the cards left in hand of the remaining players. Therefore the following point effectively counts:

Seven, eight, nine, ten: 0 points

Jack: 2 points

Queen: 3 points

King: 4 points

Ace: 11 points

Red Nine: 20 points

Black Nine: 10 points

Additionally you get:

50 Points, if you finish first.

20 Points, if you finish second.

10 Points, if one was not exactly the last one.

You therefore should try to get rid of the highscoring cards as quickly as possible as otherwise the others may get too many points if they finish first.

The high score

The winner is the one who reaches the allotted amount of points first.

Then you can determine if the result should be registered in the scoring list. The high score stores the points reached from all four players. Rank 1 always holds the player which reached the highest score of all games played.

You can reset the high score anytime by calling the same name function in the menu “High Score”


Select Players

The game Red Nine can be played up to four players. It is not to wise to play with four people since one can see the cards of each of them. But it works...

Besides for the name of each player, you can also determine if there should be 2 or 4 players (tick “Playing”) and if they should be handled by the computer (tick “Handled by computer”)


Change rules
Change rules of the game

To adjust the rules you can use the following window. Click the separate elements in order to obtain the meaning of them.


Change settings

To change the settings of the program you can use the following window. Click the separate elements in order to obtain the meaning of them.


Here you can preset the amount of points the game may reach. The first one who reaches or passes this goal is the winner.


Here you preset how many cards each player gets delt at the beginning of the round. Valid values are 3-6.


This value defines how much time each computer driven player gets for a draw. This indeed has no influence on the quality of his decision, but merely serves the purpose for you to see which card has been put down.


If you have a fast computer, you may diminish the speed of the cards. Therefore select one of the three speeding levels.

This function only has an effect if the movement of the cards is switched on.


Mark this box in order to switch on the movements of the cards. Therefore the cards move slowly across the screen, which looks much better. If you have a slow working computer this function may be turned off. The cards jump then immediately from the starting point to the end point.


Laying down a Spade Nine will block the deck if this box is activated. Cards may only be put down again if a player has laid down a Red Nine.


Activate this box if you want points deducted if a Clubs Nine was laid and no Red Nine followed. Nine points for each card in hand will be deducted from the player who has put down any card matching the Clubs Nine.


If this box is marked, a Red Nine may follow on any card. If it’s unmarked, a Red Nine also only may be put down if it matches in color or type the card on the deck.


If this box is activated, the round ends as soon as one player has laid down all cards. If it’s not activated, the game carries on until there is only one player left.


Sound settings

To change the sound settings you can use the following window. Click the separate elements in order to obtain the meaning of them.


If this box is ticked, the sound will be switched on during the game.


Tick this box in order to switch on the background music. Therefore you need your sound card correctly installed under Windows.

By the way, the sound file will be played once only in the shareware version. In the fullversion you can hear your sound files constantly.


You may select which music file will be played, by entering the name of any MIDI file in this field. Should this not be filed in the folder of Red Nine, you have to state the complete path.

Should the file name be unknown to you just click the button “Browse” and select one file of your choice.


Press this button, in order to select a background music. Therefore a window will be opened which indicates all existing MIDI files. Simply select a file from there.