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KLONDIKE DELUXE AGA DOCUMENTATION V1.1.
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1.INTRODUCTION.
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Before we start, please understand that English is not our
native language and the short time available to type this
docs made the use of an English Dictionary impossible.
So, please forgive us the probable big amount of errors.
In January of this year we decided to try something else on
the amiga as the usual stuff. You guessed it, we wanted to make
a game for the Amiga. After a long and difficult discussion of
what kind of game we should make, we decided that the game was
going to be a klondike game for the A1200 and A4000 with
digitized pictures.
2.GAMEPLAY.
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For you who don't know how to play klondike don't panic, I'll
explain this in the following text.
In the initial setup of klondike there are seven rows in the
upper 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 cards in one row.
In the stock which is in the lower left corner of the screen,
are the rest of the cards. You can now put a card of one color,
on the other color, but these cards must follow up eachother.
e.g. You can put a red three, on a black four. Types of cards
are not very important at this point. You can get cards to do this
from an other row or the stock in the lower left of the screen.
If you can't change something in the upper of the screen. You
must click on the stock to rotate the cards in the stock and you
get a new card on top of the stock. Dependent of the level the
stock turns with one or three cards. On the four ace places in the
lower right of the screen you can put the aces, followed by a two,
three and so on. This must be the same type of card. e.g. spades.
If you have a king you can put it on an empty place in the upper
screen. You can only do this with a king !!!!!
If you played it right all cards of one kind lie on eachother
from ace to king. If everything went right only the four
ace places are filled with all the cards and the rest of the
screen is empty.
3.INSTALLER.
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With the installer you can put this game on your hard drive.
The installer makes automatically a directory called Reko-Productions.
Just click the icon and the official commodore installer
does it's work.
4.PREFSFILE.
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In this file you can put the initial settings of the game.
You can do this by editing a small text file called REKO.PREFS .
In this file are the following lines :
#R=P Resolution: P=PAL V=Multiscan D=DoublePal S=Super72
#W=1 Workbench: 0=Off 1=On
#M=1 Music: 0=Off 1=On
#L=C Level: A=Easy B=Normal C=Hard
#C=0 Cardset: 0 to 9 at startup
#0=cards/Default.REKO
#1=cards/Default.REKO
#2=cards/Default.REKO
#3=cards/Defualt.REKO
#4=cards/Default.REKO
#5=cards/Default.REKO
#6=cards/Default.REKO
#7=cards/Default.REKO
#8=cards/Default.REKO
#9=cards/Default.REKO
#.
You can edit this prefs file with a simple edit tool. e.g. ed .
If you want to change something just take the right letter.
e.g. If you want doublepal, just type in first line : #R=D
This also applies for the other lines. In the lines : #1= / #9=,
you can choose which cardsets you can pick in the game.
5.KEYS.
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During the game you can change some things :
Press <s> for super72 screen mode. (Not available on a 1942)
Press <v> for multiscan screen mode.
Press <p> for pal screen mode (Default)
Press <d> for double pal screen mode.
Press <a> for level a.
Press <b> for level b.
Press <c> for level c.
Press <w> for closing/opening workbench.
Press <m> for music on/off
Press <0> to <9> for different card sets.
Press <r> to restart a card game.
Press <Esc> to stop playing.
6.GENERAL.
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Level A : the stock turns 1 card at a time. And you can move part
of a row.
Level B : the stock turns 3 cards at a time. And you can move part
of a row.
Level C : the stock turns 3 cards at a time. And you can't move
part of a row.
To move cards you first must select a card by clicking on the left
mousebutton and then you must click on the destination card with
the left mouse button.
Some little things:
- You can move cards automatically to the ace places by double
clicking on the left mouse button.
- You can deselect a card with the right mouse button.
- If you make a wrong card move the source card will be deselected.
- You get only the bonus if you play it in level C.
- Wrong choises 'Screenflash'.
- Don't choose a resolution which isn't mounted. The programme
will terminate.
- It is possible to choose a lower level while playing. If you choose
a higher level the game restarts.
7.HOW TO MAKE A OWN CARD SET AND WHY ?
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OK, last things first:
Why?
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Due to the effort we made to bring you this game, we
hope you will reward this by making a cardset for us.
Sending us a cardset not only tells us you like our game
(so we keep on improving it), but also gives us some other
cardsets to play with.
For this reason we also organized ........
THE CONTEST!!!!!
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In case we receive five or more cardsets a month,
we intent to choose the three best ones, which will be
rewarded. If we receive less cardsets, we wait until
we received at least five (5 disks).
First prize winner gets the second and third best set (2 disks).
Second prize winner gets the first and third best set (2 disks).
Third prize winner gets the first best set (1 disk).
The two extra disks used will be from the two worst sets of the
month. This makes the minimum number of disks mentioned
before so it won't cost us any extra disks.
In this way it will cost us just the prize of the stamps to
return the disks.
In case we receive more than five disks a month, we keep these
disks as a kind of payment for the job we did. These disks will
however be re-entered in the contests of months to come, so
one great month of cardsets won't blow your chance on winning a
prize.
We also change the first card of the winning sets into e.g.
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| Mrs. CardMaker |
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| 1st prize |
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| july 93 |
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|Congratulations |
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| from |
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|REKO-Productions|
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This card will also been send to the winners, to put in their own
set. (It would be stupid to send your own cardset back, wouldn't it)
If possible, these cardsets will also be spread world-wide (in PD).
REMEMBER: only winners get their disks back. So don't send us
envelopes with stamps to send back your disk(s), because we won't.
Anyway, the stamps will probably cost you more than the disk(s).
Also any envelopes without enough stamps or stamps that are
tampered with will not be accepted!!!
OK, I hope you will enjoy making cardsets for our game and keep'm
coming.
Oh yeah, don't forget to mention your name and address in a textfile
on the disk. This way we always know which cardset belonges to who.
Otherwise you'll never get any reply from us.
And now first things last:
HOW to make a REKO cardset.
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To begin with there are a number of important values:
Screentype . . . . . . : HAM8 (256,000 colors).
CardHeight . . . . . . : 130 pixels.
CardWidth . . . . . . : 88 pixels.
Number of cards . . . : 55 (CARD00 - CARD54)
The order of the cards : CARD00 = REKO-Production card
(Please use one of the three we provided, or
make one which also mentions REKO-Productions)
CARD01 = Only a border to show an empty place on