README for seahaven
A pure Xlib C++ graphical implementation of a solitare
card playing game sometimes known as Seahaven Towers.
NOTE: a manpage
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NAME
Seahaven Towers - A solitaire game
SYNOPSIS
seahaven [-display display:number] [-speedup num]
DESCRIPTION
seahaven is an X implementation of a solitaire game
sometimes known as Seahaven Towers, which I originally saw
as a shareware game for the Macintosh. seahaven is a fairly
blatent rip-off of that game.
RULES FOR SEAHAVEN TOWERS
The game is played using an ordinary deck of cards. The
cards are all face-up; you always know where all of the
cards are. At any time, each card is in one of three kinds
of stacks:
- Playing stacks. There are ten of these, each initially
having five cards.
- Working stacks. There are four of these, two of them
initially having a card in them. Each working stack is
allowed to contain at most one card.
- Ace stacks. There are four of these, one for each suit.
They are initially empty. Cards must be placed in these
stacks in ascending order, starting with the ace. The
object of the game is to get all the cards in the ace
stacks.
The rules are simple. You may only move one card at a time;
only a card in a working stack or on the top of a playing
stack may be moved. A card may be moved to the top of a
playing stack only if it is the same suit that was on top
there and the next lower card. (In other words, you may
only place the seven of spades on top of the eight of
spades.) A card may be moved to any empty working stack.
And a card may be moved to an ace stack if it is an ace or
if it is the next higher card than the one that is already
there.
PLAYING SEAHAVEN
To move a card, just drag it with the left mouse button.
When you let go, it will be placed on the stack that the
card was moved closest to, if such a move is legal. If the
move is not legal, the card will spring back to its original
location.
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Since it is always to your advantage to move cards to the
ace stacks as soon as possible, cards will be automatically
moved there for you.
There is also a convenient shortcut: you may move several
cards at once from one playing stack to another, providing
that such a move would be possible using available empty
work stacks.
To help you locate cards, if you press the middle button on
a card, the next lower card of the same suit will be
highlighted. If you press the right button, the next higher
card will be highlighted.
Since there is no hidden information in the game, it's not
quite cheating to provide undo commands. There are Undo and
Redo buttons at the bottom of the window; you may also use
the U and R keys. The Restart button will restore you back
to the original set-up.
If you give up, you can press the Autoplay button. This
counts as a loss (unless you've already won the hand). The
computer will figure out whether there's a solution. If
there is, you can review the computer's solution by using
the Restart and Redo buttons.
SCORING
If you get all the cards into the ace piles, you will be
scored a win. If you press the New Game button or the
Autoplay button without having won, you will be scored a
loss. Your wins and losses will be remembered across
invocations of seahaven.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
The -speedup flag changes the speed of the animation. The
higher the number, the faster cards will move when
automatically transferred to the ace piles. The default
value is 6.
BUGS
Needs an icon.
Does not look at any resources at all. That is, your
.Xdefaults file will be ignored.
Lots of the code is horrid.
This man page is poorly written.
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1991 by Terry Weissman and Charles Haynes.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
software and its documentation for any purpose and without
fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
documentation, and that the names of Terry Weissman or
Charles Haynes or their employers not be used in advertising
or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
without specific, written prior permission. Terry Weissman
and Charles Haynes make no representations about the
suitability of this software for any purpose. It is
provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
TERRY WEISSMAN AND CHARLES HAYNES AND THEIR EMPLOYERS
DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL THEY BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL,
INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,
ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE
OF THIS SOFTWARE.
So there.
AUTHORS
Terry Weissman
Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
weissman@sgi.com
Auto-play code by
Charles Haynes
Apple Computer
haynes@apple.com
Card bitmaps provided by
Robert Viduya
robert@shangri-la.gatech.edu
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