Tasholiiwe v1.0s is a 256 color shareware version of an ancient Anasazi
game. The name 'Tasholiiwe' is Zuni Indian for 'wooden dice', which is also the name of their version of this game, but this is far from an exclusively Zuni game. Take a map of the U.S. and divide it roughly in the middle -- right through the Great Plains -- forming a west and east half. This game, Tasholiiwe, under various names and forms, was played by many of the tribes inhabiting the western half of the division from very ancient times. Its most notable and prominent forms come from the Zuni, Hopi, Navajo, and Kiowa Apache, but many other tribes had versions -- the Laguna, the Commanche, the Cheyenne, the Keres, the Walapai, the Havasupai, the Tigua, the Shoshone, etc., etc. It is a very ancient, and venerable, game and may be older than even the Anasazi themselves who surely played it.
Tasholiiwe was used in a religious and ritualistic sense for divination -- the throw of the sticks was thought to be able to tell the future -- forecast war or peace, prosperity or famine, joy or sorrow. It is said that even today, the game is used by many of the Pueblo tribes to bring rain. This game requires VBRUN300.DLL to play.
TASHO.ZIP should yield the following program files when un-zipped:
README TXT
HORSE10 WAV
BUMP10 WAV
BUMP11 WAV
BUMP1 WAV
BUMP2 WAV
BUMP3 WAV
BUMP4 WAV
BUMP5 WAV
BUMP6 WAV
BUMP7 WAV
BUMP8 WAV
BUMP9 WAV
HORSE1 WAV
WINIT WAV
HORSE2 WAV
HORSE3 WAV
HORSE4 WAV
HORSE5 WAV
HORSE6 WAV
HORSE7 WAV
HORSE8 WAV
HORSE9 WAV
PROLOG WAV
RAIN1 WAV
RAIN2 WAV
STICK1 WAV
STICK2 WAV
STICK3 WAV
STICK4 WAV
WATER1 WAV
WATER2 WAV
WATER3 WAV
WATER4 WAV
TASHO HLP
TASHO EXE
TASHO2 MID
ANASAFAC TXT
TASHO1 MID
Tasholiiwe is written in Visual Basic 3.0. As such it
requires that VBRUN300.DLL exists in your Windows System directory.
If you have trouble installing the game on your system you can
contact me by:
E-Mail at:
CompuServe: 74212,1123 or
Internet: psneeley@compuserve.com
or psneeley@bigfoot.com
or psneeley@vii.com
or by Mail:
Steve Neeley
248 W. 3325 N.
North Ogden, UT 84414
You can also come by my homepage at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PSNeeley
To install Tasholiiwe, please do the following:
1. Check that VBRUN300.DLL is in your Windows System directory. If not,
please download a copy (there should be a copy on the BBS from which
you downloaded TASHO.ZIP or you can get it from my homepage above).
2. Create a directory TASHO.
3. Copy all the files 'unzipped' from TASHO.ZIP
to this new TASHO directory.
4. Create a program manager icon for TASHO.EXE by adding it as a file
in your GAMES program manager group.
That's it.
Thanks for trying Tasholiiwe. I hope it's challenging, fun, and