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(Oct 16th 1992, Turku, Finland)
Montana v0.1
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By Mika Saastamoinen 1992
The files you should have now:
LueMut - The Finnish readme-file.
(Want to learn some Finnish? Here's your chance! :)
FMon - Finnish version of Montana (v0.1f)
(Try this for kicks! :)
ReadMe - The file you're reading now!
EMon - English version of Montana (v0.1e)
(No speaka Finnisha? Try this one instead! :)
What is Montana?
Montana is a simple but rather addictive patience-like card game for the
(most excellent!) Amiga computer. NOTE! This version of Montana REQUIRES
version 2.0 (or later) of AmigaOS! If you're still running 1.2/1.3, you'd
better go and get 2.0 NOW, because it's REALLY worth it!
Background information
I played this game for the 1st time on the Macintoshes at my school and I
liked it! :) So, I thought it would be nice to have this game on my Amiga,
but for a long time I didn't do anything about it until one Saturday
morning (about 3 weeks ago)... I started playing around with GadToolsBox
drawing buttons here, defining menus there and suddenly I realised that I
had the 'perfect' user interface for Montana right in front of me! I started
coding and - hey presto! - by noon the next day the program was ready! And
since it has worked without any problems ever since, I thought I'd release
it for your delight as well! ;)
Running Montana
Montana CAN'T be started from the Workbench the usual way, ie. from it's own
icon! However, you CAN start it (from WB) by selecting 'Execute Command...'
from the Workbench menu and typing the path and name of the program you want.
You can also start Montana by 1st selecting 'Show/All Files' from the Window
menu and double-clicking on the default tool icon named EMon (or FMon). And,
of course, you can start Montana from the Shell. "We apologise for the
inconvenience", but hey, this is only v0.1... ;)
Playing Montana
The basic idea of Montana is to arrange the cards in numerical order (from 2
to K and from left to right) with each suit on it's own row.
Playing Montana is simple! :) You'll notice 4 holes (instead of aces) on the
'table'. Choose one hole at random :) and look at the card on the left side
of the hole. Now find the card which is of the same suit and the next in
numerical order and click it with the mouse. Hey presto! The card you clicked
is moved (if it was the correct one...) to the hole! In this way you can
arrange the cards until...
There are 2 special cards: 1) a 2 can only be placed in a hole at the left
edge of the table and 2) you can't place anything after a K (of course).
Sooner or later you'll get stuck because of the K's. Then you can re-shuffle
the cards (by selecting the 'Shuffle 1' or 'Shuffle 2' actions) and try
again. NOTE! The cards which are already in the correct place and order will
NOT be shuffled! You can re-shuffle the cards twice and _WHEN_ you get stuck
after that, you can only select the 'Result'-action to see your score. Or
you could start a 'New game' or 'Quit'... :)
That's about it really...
The gadgets and menu-actions ought to be pretty self-evident, so all I can
really say is that HAVE FUN WITH MONTANA! :) It's a very simple game, but
look what happened to Tetris! O:) And DON'T think Montana is a piece of cake
to finish, because it's not! I've played this game for months (on Macs & now
on Amiga) and I've finished it only 5 times (if my memory serves right)!
Oh, if you have any comments, suggestions or bug(never!:)-reports about
Montana, you can contact me at the following addresses (use EMail if
possible):
Mika "Just one more game of Montana!" Saastamoinen
EMail: mikasaas@polaris.cc.utu.fi
msaastamoine@finabo.abo.fi
SnailMail: Tallgreninkatu 6 P 89
20380 Turku
Finland
P.S. I decided to release this game as GiftWare, so send me a postcard
or something (money?), will ya? :)
P.S.2. Big thanks to Matthew Dillon for the excellent DICE C-compiler!
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