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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!
-
- //
- \\ // Amiga - In an insane world it's the sanest choice!
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