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- Table of Contents ----------------------------
-
- 1. How to play Yahtzee
-
- 2. Playing the game on the Palmtop
-
- 3. Tips for Running the game on the Palmtop
-
- This game is freeware. Please enjoy the program and share it
- with others. If you give it to someone else (or post it on a
- bulletin board service), be sure to include the three files:
-
- YAHTZEE.EXE The program itself.
- YAHTZEE.DOC The documentation (this file).
- YAHTZEE.ICN The icon.
-
- Updates to the game will be available at the web site:
- http://users.aol.com/FreeWhl44
-
- Please let me know what you think of this game, or if you
- have suggestions to make it better. For future versions, I'm
- thinking of allowing two players, and/or triple-scoring.
-
- Curtis Cameron
- freewhl44@aol.com
- 1520 Glastonbury Dr
- Plano, TX 75075
-
- How to play Yahtzee ---------------------------------
-
- Yahtzee is a simple game in which you try to roll different
- patterns with five dice. In the traditional version of the
- game, any number of players compete by alternating turns,
- but each playing independently, and then comparing scores
- at the end. In this version, only one person plays, trying
- to score as high as possible.
-
- Each turn consists of up to three rolls of five dice, and
- any or all of the dice may be rolled each turn. Each turn
- must be scored in one of thirteen categories, and each
- category may be scored only once each game. The categories
- are:
-
- Ones: Try to roll as many ones as possible, and score the
- total of only those ones.
-
- Twos through Sixes: The same as ones, with the other
- numbers.
-
- 3 of a kind: To be able to score at all in this category,
- you must have rolled at least three matching dice. You then
- total all the dice to score.
-
- 4 of a kind: Same as above, but four dice must match.
-
- Full House: Three of the dice must match, and the other two
- must match each other. Like a full house in poker. Scores
- 25 points.
-
- Small Straight: A sequence of four numbers in a row.
- Scores 30.
-
- Large Straight: A sequence of five numbers in a row.
- Scores 40.
-
- Yahtzee: All five dice must match. Scores 50.
-
- Chance: No conditions; you may score any time by totalling
- all dice.
-
- Special bonus: The Ones through Sixes categories on the
- left side of the card qualify you for a special bonus of 35
- points. To get the bonus, the total points for those
- categories must be at least 63. You can make 63 by scoring
- three dice in each category.
-
- Playing the game on the Palmtop --------------------------
-
- The controls to play the game are designed to be easy to
- use. You may roll the dice either with the Roll softkey
- (F8), or with the Enter key. To hold a die so that it will
- not be rolled again, hit the F-key (F2 - F6) which lines up
- with that die.
-
- After three rolls, you then move the highlight to the spot
- where you would like to score, and hit either the Enter
- softkey or the Enter key on the keyboard. You can score
- after one or two rolls by hitting the Score key (F9).
-
- To help you keep track of what you will need to make the
- bonus, there is an indicator on the Subtotal line, which
- tells you the difference between what you have already
- scored, and what you would have scored if you had rolled
- exactly three of each number.
-
- At the end of the game, the top ten scores of all time are
- displayed. If you would like to clear this list, then use
- the Filer app to delete the file YAHTZEE.RES.
-
- Tips for Running the game on the Palmtop -----------------
-
- Yzhtzee is a DOS program which is written only for the
- HP 100LX and 200LX Palmtops. DOS applications can be run at
- the same time as the other System Manager Compliant
- applications, but you may have only one DOS program running
- at a time. You may switch to another app by hitting its
- blue key just as you always do. To get back, you can either
- start DOS from App Manager, or hit Ctrl-123. You can't just
- go to App Manager and ask it to start Yahtzee again.
-
- Yahtzee can be run by opening the filer application, moving
- the cursor to the YAHTZEE.EXE file, and hitting Enter. The
- easier way is to install it into your App Manager:
-
- 1. Start App Manager by hitting the blue "More" key.
- 2. Hit F2 to add an icon.
- 3. Enter the name you would like to appear for the program
- in the Name field, then Tab to the next field.
- 4. In the Path field, type in the full path name of the exe
- file, including the .exe extension, then add the "|"
- (shift-backslash) character, and 60, like this:
- Path: c:\games\yahtzee.exe|60
- The 70 tells app manager to give the program 60K of memory
- to run in. If you have lots of memory being used by TSR's
- that get loaded in your config.sys and autoexec.bat files,
- you may need to increase this number.
- 5. In the comments line you can put a "¿" character (Fn-3)
- to have it skip the "press any key..." message when Yahtzee
- exits.
- 6. Tab to the Icon area and select an icon. Then hit F10.
-