CARDZ ~~~~~ © 1995 by Paul Morley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INTRODUCTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome to cardz - a NON AGA conversion of Klondike deluxe for all Amiga owners to use. Cardz retains one of the best features of Klondike Deluxe i.e. the ability to load other card sets ( more on this later ). 1 LOADING CARDZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Boot disk from drive DF0: and double click on the Cardz Icon. Cardz requires 1Mb of memory. 2 PLAYING CARDZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cardz is based around the game of Klondike. For those of you unfamiliar with Klondike a brief explanation of how to play the game follows. When you first play there are seven rows of cards located along the top of the screen. In the first row lies one card, in the second two and so on, until in the last row there are seven. You can only see the front side of the first card in the row. The remainder of the cards are located in the lower left corner of the screen in what is referred to as the stock pile. To play you must place a card of one colour on a card of the other colour, you must also follow in numerical sequence e.g. You can put a red two, on a black three. Cards can be taken from the stock pile or another column. Click on the stock pile to rotate the cards in the stock and obtain a new card on top of the stock. Dependent of the level of play the stock turns with one or three cards. Situated on the lower right of the screen are the four ace places. Here you may place any of the aces, followed by a two, three and so on. Cards placed on the ace places must be of the same suit. Kings may be placed on any empty place in the upper screen. To win the game all cards must be placed in the correct Ace place and the rest of the screen empty. 3 CONTROLS ~~~~~~~~~~ To move cards you first must select a card by clicking on the left mouse button and then you must click on the destination card with the left mouse button. To automatically move a card to an ace place click on the card with the right mouse button. When playing the game the following keys may be used. Press to restart a card game. Press to stop playing. Press to load a cardz set. Press to read instructions Press to read more Cardz Press set game to easy ( turns one card at a time ) Press set game to hard ( turns 3 cards at a time ) 4 GENERAL ~~~~~~~~~ * If you make a wrong card move the source card will be de-selected. * Wrong choices 'Screenflash'. * Loading another Cardz set will restart the game. * It is possible to choose a lower level while playing. If you choose a higher level the game restarts. * On loading Cardz searches for the cardset named "DEFAULT.CDZ", if this cannot be found the program exits. If you have a favourite cardset which you wish to use as a default set simply rename it to "DEFAULT.CDZ" 5 OTHER CARDZSETS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cardz uses MODIFIED Klondike AGA cardsets. These sets are converted from AGA ( very often HAM8 ) images and reduced to 16 colours to retain compatibility with the entire Amiga range. Using dithering techniques quality loss is kept to an absolute minimum. For details of other Cardzsets please read the File MORE_CARDZ found on the disk or from the main menu. 6 DISTRIBUTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cardz may be freely distributed. 7 INFORMATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * If you have any questions regarding this program please send them to the following address: Paul Morley, 1O3 Micklefield Road, HIGH WYCOMBE, Buckinghamshire. HP13 7EX. ( Please remember to enclose a stamped self addressed envelope for any reply ). * Many thanks to Caroline for her help in play testing. * Amos Pro, PPaint 6.1 and Pegger were used in the development of this program. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope you enjoy the program. Paul Morley, June 1995 SOFTOGRAPHY ~~~~~~~~~~~ Perm Check Pools Tools 1&2 Course Form Dividend Winner Quiz Base LATEST RELEASES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lottery Winner Cardz