Terrace Card Game for Windows Copyright (c) 1992-94 P.B.Cook Shareware Version 2.1 31 January 1994 <<<<<<<<<<<<< WIN FREE REGISTRATION OF TERRACE >>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you can succeed in completing the Generals Patience and follow the instructions that appear in the game to print out a copy of the resultant winning screen then I will provide you with a unique FREE registration number for your personal use. ! Only one registration per person ! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0. Documentation For full documentation consult the Windows on-line Help File. 1. Shareware The program TERRACE.EXE comprising the Card Game 'Terrace' and this documentation file is distributed as 'Shareware'. It is a fully functioning program. You may evaluate the program for a period of 30 days, after which continued use of the program requires registration with the author. I don't ask much for the registration fee, and will be pleased to send you an updated version of the program when you register provided you supply a disk and cover my costs. To register see the online Help File. 2. Introduction The Terrace Card Game is a two pack patience game described by David Pelter in his book 'The Penguin Book of Patience'. It has numerous names used around the world and may more prosaically be called 'Queen of Italy' or 'Signora'. The game 'Terrace' is one of a family of related games with slightly varying rules and layouts. The principle variants described in the book have all been implemented in this program. The program is written using Turbo Pascal for Windows from Borland (an excellent language product which I can thoroughly recommend). 3. Installation 3.1 Requirements An IBM PC AT or compatible. Microsoft Windows V3+. A mouse. The program has been tested running under Microsoft Windows V3.0 and V3.1 using hardware varying from an 8Mhz Tandon AT to an IBM 386DX Portable on a range of display adaptors. 3.2 Installation You should receive this software as a single self extracting archive file using the LZH format from Yoshi. (TERR_21.EXE) To install the software a) Copy the file TERR_21.EXE to the Drive and Directory you wish to use for the installation. b) Execute the file TERR_21.EXE. c) You will be prompted with a Copyright screen and the option to proceed to install the program files. d) The program will then de-archive the files TERRACE.EXE - the Windows Executable file. TERRACE.HLP - the Windows Style Help file TERRACE.TXT - this short documentation file. DECK_???.BMP - a set of Bitmap files containing the Deck designs You may include the TERRACE.EXE file in Windows Program Manager or double click on its filename in File Manager to launch the program. Once you have run the program and selected from the user definable options a further file TERRACE.INI will be found in the Directory containing your Windows Files. Should you wish to remove 'Terrace' from your system at a future date then this file may be deleted. Unless registered with the author the program will remind you periodically that the 'Good Guys' register their Shareware Programs. 4. Other Products At the time of writing I can offer for following programs for use with Microsoft Windows - 13OUT V3.0 - Single pack patience game. WINLHA V1.1 - Fully featured Windows Based Driver for the Dos LHA Archive Program from Yoshi (LZH archive files). FREEWARE. Shrink all thoses lesser used files... and think of the space you can save. DOCARC V1.4 - Data file archiving program, allowing the data file to be archived and de-archived and automatically launching the files application. (Try it and see). CARLTON V2.0 Double pack patience game. 4ACES V1.0 Single pack patience game. JACKPOT V1.1 Four Reel Fruit Machine Program PMPlus V1.4 Enhances the Program Manager by allowing you to nest one Program Group inside another. Adds depth to your workspace. TMPlus V1.2 Windows Task Manager replacement. Includes all the functionality of the original and adds a user definable menu system to launch your programs as well as a Browse and Run facility to access your less used programs. For Programmers - if you are a programmer and use Turbo Pascal for Windows then I am also willing to sell a couple of Turbo Pascal Units (TPU files) which implement all the hard work in the card games 13 Out, Carlton and Terrace. All you need to add is the framework of the game plus the logic to implement its rules. Give me a ring for more details. Philip B. Cook January 1994 Mr. P.B. Cook 7 Deaf Hill Terrace, Trimdon Station, County Durham ENGLAND TS29 6BZ Tel +44 429 880319 / +44 642 485395 Update Information V1.0 31 May 1992 First Release version of Terrace Reported Bugs 1. RH Mouse Hints not functioning properly in a number of ways. V1.1 21 June 1992 Bugs in V1.0 fixed. Reported Bugs 2. Problems with Hercules Display Driver using patterns to represent colours. V1.2 10 August 1992 - Bug in V1.1(2) fixed. Hercules screens now use white background (like Solitaire). - Recompiled with TPW V1.5. - Redesigned a smaller size card deck to fit the screens better. - added INI setting to change the background colour. V1.3 14 August 1992 Incorporated new Stack Drawing Code. No changes in functionality over V1.2. Reported Bugs 3. Changing the Dragging Mode caused an extra set of cards to be dealt to the Terrace. 4. Fatal error (produced by nul selector - very rare) V1.4 11 October 1992 Fixed V1.3 Bug 3. Added Windows Help File system. 4. Fatal error (produced by nul selector - very rare) V1.5 25 Nov 1992 Fixed V1.3/4 Bug 4. Modified Help File V2.0 1 June 1993 Added dialog to select the Card Displacement. Added automatic length adjustment of card sequences in the Tableau. Added selection of external card decks from bmp files. Supplied 24 External Decks (same designs as V1.5). Reported Bugs : 5. Three of the variants did not display the base card letter/number on the backcloth to assist play. V2.1 31 January 1994 Fixed V2.0 Bug 5. Incorporated new Registration and About code. No change in the card games. 31 July 1994 Removed references to 4 Aces in the error dialogs associated with loading Card Decks.