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Poker Solitaire
version 1.1
Release date: Nov-03-1988
(version 1.0 was never released to the public)
<C> 1988 by Eduardo Martins
Poker Solitaire was entirely written using Turbo pascal 5.0.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Poker Solitaire requires an IBM-PC or compatible, with an EGA/VGA
card and monitor. A Microsoft-compatible mouse is optional.
RULES
Shuffle one regular pack and deal twenty-five cards one by one, placing
them in a 5 x 5 square. The skill arises in picking the best spot for
each card. The object is to make as high a score as possible. counting
each row and column as a Poker hand and scoring as follows:
Straight flush 30
Four of a kind 16
Straight 12
Full house 10
Three of a kind 6
Flush 5
Two pairs 3
One pair 1
The hands are not ranked as in Poker, but in accordance with their
relative difficulty in the solitaire game. A straight is hard to make,
for if you play for it you risk making nothing at all. A full house is
easier, for you can afford to play for it, making three of a kind or
two pairs if you fail. Flushes are very easy to make; in fact, the
usual plan is to try for flushes in the columns and full houses or
fours in the rows. Most of the time you will make three or four flushes
without giving up any higher-scoring opportunities.
You may discard up to five cards from the pack, but you lose two points
for each card discarded.
COMMANDS
For instructions on how to play, refer to the on-screen help.
If a Microsoft-compatible mouse driver is installed on your system, you'll
be asked whether or not you want to use the mouse; otherwise commands
are entered from the keyboard.
A note on the Undo command: the last card you've placed on the 5 x 5
grid can be moved back to the top of the pack, provided that you
haven't turned the next card face-up (this restriction is to avoid
'cheating': after you turn a card face up, you could find that
the new card would give you more points if you placed it on the spot
where you've just placed the last card. Since the rules don't allow
for that, once you turn the top of the pack card face up, you can't
recall the last card you've placed on the grid.), and that you haven't
discarded a card since your last move. Since undo operates on
your LAST command, after you discard a card you can recall that card
to the top of the pack, but you can't recall a card you've placed on
the grid before that.
If you wish the game to be silent, use the -nosound option when loading
the game:
poker -nosound <Enter>
Poker Solitaire writes the top ten scores on a file called 'poker.sco'.
If this file is not found on the current drive or directory when the
game is loaded, a new one will be created. If you're playing from a
floppy disk, DO NOT put a write-protect tab on the disk, or a fatal
error will occur.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to:
- Neil Rubenking, for PianoMan, and Scott Bussinger, for BACKPLAY.
Those two programs made the task of adding songs to the game a
lot easier.
- Richard Sadowsky, for MOUSE4, used to develop the EGA mouse
support unit EGAMOUSE (available for download at the BPROGA
Forum on CompuServe as EGAMOU.ARC).
- Mael Martins, for countless hours of beta testing (although she
did seem to enjoy it a great "deal"!).
- All the folks at CompuServe's Borland Forum (BPROGA), for
invaluable help whenever it was needed.
REGISTRATION
Poker Solitaire is a shareware program. Feel free to copy and
distribute it to your friends, or upload it to bulettin boards, as
long as you include this accompanying doc file. If you enjoy the
program, please register by sending $15 to
Eduardo Martins
2083-C Orchard Street
Urbana, IL 61801
This program cannot be sold without express written consent from the
author. If you have any comments or suggestions for future releases,
please write to the above address, or send EASYPLEX to Eduardo
Martins, 73300,267.