Strip-Mac! is FREE! I ask nothing for it except a postcard.
You can make as many copies of it as you wish, but naturally I retain all other rights, so you're not permitted to distribute it for a profit or fee of any kind.
If you have any suggestions for improving the game or have written any new punishment, reward or surprise cards please send them in. Thanks.
If you give away copies of the game I would ask that:
(a) you do not distribute modified copies of the punishment, reward or surprise files; and that
(b) you ensure that all the files (including this one) are distributed together.
If you like Strip-Mac! *smile*, and please send me a picture postcard of your home town — I really enjoy receiving these.
This distribution consists of this 'Release information' notice and the following files, all of which must be in the same folder prior to starting the application.
Strip-Mac! — the application
Strip-Mac Punishments — a data file used by the application
Strip-Mac Rewards — a data file used by the application
Strip-Mac Surprises — a data file used by the application
Card PICTS — an optional data file used by the application.
• The outline around the OK button in the 'ShowCard' modeless dialog, together with certain on-screen text, is now being redrawn properly after an update event.
• The monitor's colour depth is now being tested as needed, rather than just once when the application starts up.
v1.0 -- February, 1992
• Added a new B&W PICT for the fetishes dialog.
• Modified the <p> and <P> macros so that when there are only two players in the game they don't expand to pointless phrases like 'the player of your choice'.
• Added the <2> and <3> macros. See the online help for details.
• Reworded many of the cards.
• The application's main window is now unhilighted when switched to the background by multifinder.
• Edit-menu items are now disabled when no window is open.
• Various other minor changes and enhancements.
v1.1 -- April, 1992
• Added the 'Set Parameters' dialog.
• When displayed, cards are now numbered from 1 onwards, not 0.
• I've fixed the problem whereby a person with no clothes and no money had no
options if there were no punishment cards left.
• Windows are now more accurately centred on the screen -- the height of their titlebars (if present) have been taken into account.
• There is a further use of colour.
• Various other minor changes and enhancements.
v1.2 -- May, 1992
• The program now provides the option of having randomly generated 'virtual' opponents to play against.
• Various pictures throughout the game can be censored to remove any depictions of female nudity. The game is now shipped with this option enabled. It can be disabled using the Game Options dialog.
• A preferences file now exists in order to retain all "Game Options" settings between games.
• There was a spurious call to 'FrameRect()' within the routine that displayed cards. This has been removed.
• Various other minor changes and enhancements.
v1.3 -- July 1992
• The 'I don't like this card!' command has a greater number of possible outcomes (see the on-line documentation for details).
• The <T> macro now expands into a number that is a multiple of 10 rather than 5.
• Several new cards have been added in and a few others reworded.
• A safe-sex message is displayed when the X-rated game is activated.
• I've fixed the problem whereby a person with no clothes and no money had no
options if there were no punishment cards left. (I mean it this time!)
• The same macro may now appear in a card more than once. For example, you can now have a card that says 'The first player to announce the product of <T> and <T> may...'
• I've fixed the bug that sometimes caused the preferences file to be saved in the wrong folder.
• The program now plays a sexy 'Gasp!' sound when an R- or X-rated card is presented.
• The program now ensures that the first 6 cards drawn will not be R-rated and that the first 12 cards drawn will not be X-rated. This prevents the raunchier cards appearing too early in the game. (In earlier versions of the game R and X-rated cards could appear any time after 5 cards had been drawn.)
• Various other minor alterations and internal changes.
v1.4 -- August 1992 (limited release)
• Added a "Players' Status" menu-item that shows how many credits and clothes each player has remaining.
• The list of body parts for the <BM> and <BF> macros can now be customised using ResEdit. See the online help for more details.
v1.5 -- September 1992
• Minor changes have been made to the placement of some dialog items in order to better conform to Apple's user-interface guidelines.
• The program is 30 K smaller due to two sound resources having been downsampled from 22 kHz to 11 kHz.
• In the meaningless bells and whistles department, the application's finder icon now displays a custom help balloon under system 7.0 or later.
• The on-line documentation has been updated to include a section entitled 'Losing the game'.
• The program now looks for an optional resource file called 'Card PICTS' in the same folder as the application. This file, if present, must consist of 53 PICT resources with IDs 1 through 53. These pictures should represent the 52 playing cards of a normal deck and be in the order Aces to Kings, with spades first then hearts, diamonds and clubs. The 53rd picture should be a PICT denoting the back of a playing card. If this resource file is present then these pictures will be used in place of the plain representation now used. Unfortunately I cannot distribute the file of pictures that I use myself, since I am not the artist -- sorry.
• Several other minor changes and bug-fixes.
v2.0 -- December 1992.
• A 'Card PICTs' file is now included. This file consists of pictures of the 52 playing cards. If the file is present in the same folder as the application then these pictures will be displayed in place of the older, generic playing card picture. The file (only 57K) may be removed and the game will still be completely usable — just not quite as flashy. I hope you folks like these pics, they took ages to create!
• The online help has been extensively rewritten and updated. Particularly the section on writing your own cards and the descriptions of the various macros.
• The lists of clothing items available to male and female players are now fully customisable from within the application. Use of ResEdit™ is no longer necessary. Similarly, the lists of male and female body parts that the <BM> and <BF> macros expand to are now fully customisable from within the application.
• A password can be added, changed or removed from within the application. Use of ResEdit™ is no longer necessary.
• The <0> modifier has been replaced with the <N> (naked) and <NN> (not naked) modifiers. See the 'Help (writing cards)' section of the online help for more details.
• The <!BO> fetish-modifier has been replaced with the <!BDD> (B&D dominant) and <!BDS> (B&D submissive) modifiers. See the 'Help (writing cards)' section of the online help for more details.
• The Finder's 'creator' information for the punishment, reward and surprise data files is reset to 'SMAC' (if necessary) when the application runs. This restores the nifty icons that may be lost when these files are edited by another application.
• If the Finder's 'type' information for the punishment, reward and surprise files is not set to 'TEXT' then the application refuses to run. This prevents the errors that can occur if these files have been edited with another application but not saved as plain text.
• The application checks for the nVIR virus and refuses to run if it is present. (What the heck; it was only a few lines of code.)
• The 'Show Status' dialog now also displays the number of punishments remaining to be played.
• Daniel E. Rudman's 'SpinCursor' library has been added to provide a nifty spinning cursor during a couple of operations. (For the hackers out there, it installs a small VBL task, that's why it's so smooth.)
• The placement of text items on the main window has been changed. Also, the text of these items has been changed to be more descriptive.
• The pictures in the colour splash-screen and About-box have been replaced.
• When an error occurs (e.g. the punishments file not being in the same folder as the application) the message produced is now more descriptively worded.
• When a player loses a trick (and at various other times) his or her name automatically appears atop the clothing menu for convenient access.
• The application's icon is a little different than it used to be, so if you've been running an earlier version of Strip-Mac! you may wish to rebuild the desktop. See Apple's documentation if you're not sure what that means.
• The preferences file is now saved in the in the Preferences Folder under System 7. It is saved in the System Folder proper under earlier versions of the system software. Old preference files from version 1.x of the game can be discarded.
• When playing the the dice game, the "Roll the Dice" button is now selectable by pressing the return or enter keys.
• The 'flickering' effect that occurred in several dialogs when items were redrawn has now been eliminated.
• Values entered into the 'Set Parameters…' dialog are now saved in the preferences file between games.
• Countless other minor changes; some visible, some not.
v2.0.1 -- December 1992.
• Bug fix: On a monitor set to 16 or less colours the application would crash when the Sexual Fetishes command was selected from the Options menu. :-(
• Bug fix: The number of punishments cards remaining to be played (an indication of the game's length) was being computed incorrectly. The number of punishment cards in the "deck" at the start of the game is now decided as follows:
If the game length is short then the #pun. cards = 12 + 2 x # players
If the game length is medium the #pun. cards is as for the short game + 5
If the game length is long the #pun. cards is as for the short game + 10
Let me know if you think this gives the right range of values. It's easily changed if not. Thanks to all the people who reported these bugs.
v2.1 -- February 1993
• The 'Sexual Fetishes' dialog has been replaced with a more flexible 'Nominate Optional Activities' dialog that includes non-fetishest activities such as drinking alcohol. Players are required to nominate a certain minimum number of optional activities that they must subscribe to. This number (perhaps zero) can be set using the Game Options command. Those of you who write your own cards will find descriptions of the new optional-activity modifiers in the online help.
• Balloon help has been added for all menus and menu items.
• Optional activities that occur in a card are identified when the card is displayed.
• Fixed a non-troublesome memory management bug.
• Fixed a bug that could occasionally cause the <p> and <P> family of macros to expand to an unsuitable name.
• Values in the Set Parameters dialog are now limited to 999, not 99.
• When a player loses a trick and is required to choose between options such as a taking a punishment or purchasing a reward, the buttons corresponding to invalid actions are dimmed and unselectable. (In earlier versions of the game all buttons were always selectable, and an error message was displayed if you selected an invalid action.)
• A message now appears on the screen informing players when there are no more punishment cards left to be played.
• The <c> and <C> macros have been replaced by separate plural and singular forms (<cp>, <cs>, <CP> and <CS>). This makes writing grammatically correct sentences easier. See the online help for details and examples.
• All punishment, reward and pleasure cards can now be checked to see if they are using unknown or misspelt macros and modifiers. This option (called 'syntax checking') is turned on using the Game Options command. See the online help for more details.
• Pronoun macros! Sick of writing "he or she", "him or her"? See the online help for details.
• Added a new animated cursor.
• The animated cursor that is displayed when the program starts up is now replaced by an arrow cursor when the program is ready to procede.
• Rolling dice are now animated in the dice game.
• The game now supports 49 macros and modifiers!
• Many new punishment, reward and surprise cards have been added. Many of the older cards have been altered to take advantage of the new macros. Also the contents of the punishment, reward and surprise files have been rearanged for easier editing.
v2.1.1 -- March 1993
• Bug fix: Fixed a memory management bug that could cause crashing when the 'Get Paid to Remove a Piece of Clothing' dialog was closed. :-(
• Bug fix: The icon for the Card PICTs file has been added back. (It was accidently deleted from 2.1.)
• I've added a piece of static text to the 'Help' dialogs (under system 7) to remind people that balloon help is also available.
v2.1.2 -- March 1993 (Limited release)
• I've removed the check for the nVIR resource, because it was occasionally finding spurious nVIR resources left behind by brain-dead anti-virus programs.
• I've made a few trivial changes to the punishment and reward files.
v2.2 -- June 1993.
• The maximum number of players is no longer limited to 8. I have arbitrarily changed it to 12, but let me know if you'd like it set higher.
• Good news for people using a text editor to edit the punishment, reward and surprise files — the cards need no longer be writen on a single (long) line. Look at the files, and you'll see what I mean. Oh, and I've added a few new cards, too.
• On non black-and-white Macs the screen now fades up and down at appropriate moments. (Thanks to Matt Slot for publically releasing his 'Gamma Utils' library.)
• Alerts are now centered on pre-7 systems.
• The program used to turn over an extra playing card just as the game ended. I finally got around to hunting this bug down and killing it.
• The easter egg sound in the 'About' dialog has been replaced.
• The 'Show Descriptions' and 'Players' Status' dialogs now contain scroll bars to scroll lengthy pieces of text.
• The outcomes of the dice game have altered a little. See the 'Help (General)' command under the Apple menu for a table showing all the possible outcomes.
• The number of cards in the punishments, rewards and suprise file is now checked to see if it exceeds the 400 card limit. No error occurs if there are more than this number of cards in a file, but the extra cards are not used in the game. Let me know if you run into this limit and I'll increase it.
• Fixed a bug in the <CS> and <CP> macros.
• Some minor bug fixes. (You don't think I'll admit what they were do you!)
