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MONOPOLY
Copyright © Parker Bros.
This Amiga version Copyright © 1994 Al Metz
This is my first publicly distributed program. I hope you like it!
This program is freeware. That means that while I hold the copyright on the
programming, you are free to distribute it. I expressly give my permission
for this to be included on a Fred Fish disk. If you like it spread it near
and far.
Why Monopoly? I've had my Amiga for years but I've seen no good PD
version of Monopoly for it. Of the two I've seen one wouldn't run at all and
the other wasn't very good. Not only did it not have any computer players,
it also had two bugs the author knew about (I found another on my own). The
author stated in the docs that he wasn't going to make a revised version. It
was written in C and the author welcomed anyone to revise the code to improve
the game. While I knew nothing about C, I felt I could make a better game
with AmigaBASIC. My efforts were stalled when I couldn't get the sprites to
appear on the game screen with AmigaBASIC. After a while I bought AMOS
Professional. AMOS has plenty of commands for sprites and bobs and the
included sprite editor makes it easy to pluck sprite shapes from any IFF
picture. It took me a while but this is the result. I have tried to make
this as good as possible while staying close to the original Monopoly board
game. Some improvements over the other version: computer players, pieces
that resemble the real things and options for house rules. I don't recall
seeing multi-color menus in any other program regardless of what language it
was written in.
Credits:
This Monopoly game was written with AMOS Professional and compiled with the
AMOS Professional Compiler.
The game board is from the Ed Musgrove version. It has been extensively
modified including the color and most of the special spaces like 'Go To Jail'
and the railroads. In the process of these modifications it was also changed
from a 320X200 IFF file to a 640X200 one.
The game board and play pieces were designed and modified with The Graphics
Studio and Deluxe Paint IV.
The title animations were created with DPaint IV.
The icon for the Monopoly program was taken from the game board using
Workbench's IconEdit.
The icons for the text files are modified Final Copy icons.
History:
VERSION 1.0 - This version.
Known bugs: NONE
I would like to thank my playtesters Tom Metz, Jesus White and Jim Summers.
If you find any bugs BLAME THEM! :-)
While this program isn't shareware so therefore you aren't required to send
money, I certainly wouldn't refuse any money, blank disks, diamonds, sports
cars, Amiga 4000's, etc... you would like to send. Good or bad, let me know
how you like it. I'd love to hear from you.
My U.S.Mail address is:
Al Metz
6O6 Inverness Ave.
Louisville, KY 4O214-1221
You can also contact me on Amiga run Louisville area bbs's such as LCC or
Amiga Online (but not Thunder) through my good friend Racer X. (Sorry, no
Internet address)
What's next? After a short break to get caught up on my BBSing I have a few
short utilities in mind. My next major project will be a game. I don't want
to give too much away in case I can't finish it for some reason.