Christian Jung

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presents

WinCardo

for Windows95

WinCardo is a very simple card game with specially designed and painted cards. It might feel a bit strange at the beginning because of the different looking cards, but you will quickly get used to it.

- The basic rules of WinCardo

- The meaning of the cards

- Laying down the cards

- Adjustable rules of the game

- Program settings

- Sound settings

- The calculation of the points for the high score

- The size of the cards

- WinCardo and the ASP

Important: WinCardo 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, Josef Nell, Ellsworth Hall and all others who have been of great help.

A special thanks to Corel for releasing different graphics used in this game.

Christian Jung


ASP
 WinCardo 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 cards
Laying down the cards

WinCardo cards will get laid down or get rid off.

Get rid off means, that one card in hand gets put down on the deck in the bottom right corner. Laying down means to take one card in hand and putting it on ones own stack or directly next to the ones of a fellow player.

After each putting or laying down of a card you automatically receive a new one. There are two possibilities to lay or put down a card:

- Click the card with the left mouse button, keep it pressed and draw the card directly to the desired deck.

- If you want the card on your own deck click the card with the right mouse button.


Rules of the game
The rules of the game

What’s it all about?

It is very simple. You should build a house. The player who accomplishes this first is the winner.

To follow this through you need a building license and a lot of money. The house is built if you have spent a pre-selected sum of money cards.

The game starts by firstly laying out a card with a building license followed by money cards. If you have neither one nor the other in hand lay down any card and receive a new one. The game is over if one player has laid down enough money cards to reach the amount needed for building.

Boring, isn’t it? But, as you’re not playing on your own, you can disrupt the building plans of your fellow players. Just use the special cards to put on their decks.

For example: a card which brings storm will damage the just finished roof of your fellow player. If you lay down this card he will not be allowed to lay down money cards until:

- he has repaired the roof (for this a certain card is needed)

- And he also has to lay down a new building license card.

Naturally there exists many nasty cards like this but also some to protect you from such attacks. More information to the meaning of each card you’ll find under: The meaning of the cards.


Meaning of the cards
The meaning of the cards

The following cards exists in WinCardo:

Money cards:

Collect the amount needed for building with these cards. Card values  $10.000, $20.000, $50.000, $70.000 and $100.000.

Building license:

This cards has to be laid in order to lay down money cards.

Cancellation of building license

When laying down this card on an other players deck, he is only allowed to lay down money cards, when he has laid a building license card first.

Damage- and damage cancellation cards:

Following cards are to be laid down to damage the house of the fellow player. If this happens, he is only allowed to lay down money cards if he has a matching removal card and a new building license.

If putting this card, your fellow player will have a damaged roof.

This is to repair the roof. This card may only be laid down on a damaged roof.

Hopefully one can see that the poor fellow is freezing. In other words: This card means that the heating of the respective player is broken.

And this kind fellow fixes the heating. He is only allowed to be laid down if the heating is broken.

A crack in the wall.

This card fixes the crack in the wall.

Power failure in the whole house .....

The power has been connected.

Receives a player this friendly guy, he will know that he is (almost) broke. He only can put down $10.000 and $20.000 money cards until he avoid bankruptcy with following card:

Laying down of this card moves the bankruptcy to the get rid off deck. From this point on you are allowed to lay down again the money cards of your choice.

The Aces:

All cards marked „A“ have a special meaning.

The player who has laid down this card does not need a building license for the duration of this game as he has a friend at the housing authority who granted a permanent building license.

E.g. if there is a power failure, you only have to put down a power card before you continue with money cards.

If a card like this would exist in real life, you never would need a roofer again. A  guarantee that your roof never breaks. No player is allowed to lay down a „damaged roof“ card for you.

An always functioning heating promises this card. Without further worry you can get rid off all your heating cards as nobody is allowed near your heating.

There’s a fitting Ace for your walls too. Once laid down your walls are safeguarded for the duration of the game.


Calculation of the points

Calculation of points

At the end of each game all results will be stored in the score list. The height of the points shown in the high score are effected by the laid down sum. Rank One goes to the player who has laid down the most money cards of all games.

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


Select players

The game WinCardo 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 3 and 4 players (tick „Playing“) and if the should be handled by the computer (tick „Handled by computer“).

The first 2 players always have to play, therefore you cannot deactivate the function „Join in“ for this players.


Change the 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 total amount of money cards for building a house. 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 5-7.


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.


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.


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.


Set with this function if the necessary amount must be reached exactly or if it’s sufficient to exceed it. For the first case you cannot lay down $20.000 if the total sum is $300.000 and $290.000 are already laid down. You have to wait so long until you are able to lay down the missing $10.000.


Here you may check if the computer driven players are trying to collect the amount needed for building (function switched off). You may also select that the automatic players lay down more attack cards for you and your fellow players (e.g., damaged roof etc.) if you are a step away from victory (function switched on).


If this function is switched off all laid down cards are irrelevant in the actual game.

By shuffling the cards during the game only the get rid off cards will be used.

Through this e.g., no more building licenses can be delt if all of them have been already laid down. Switching on this function ALL laid down cards will be shuffled.


Switch on this function if you don’t want the cards to be newly shuffled during the game. A game ends when all cards on deck are used up.


If this function is switched on, each player receives $50.000 for each laid down Ace.

These only will be counted at the setting of the high score and therefore have no influence on the laid down money cards.


If this function is switched on, the winner of the game will receive a $ 250.000 bonus.


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, a few sounds will be played back 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 registered version you can hear your sound file 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 WinCardo, 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.