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-NOTICE-NOTICE-NOTICE-NOTICE-NOTICE-NOTICE-NOTICE-NOTICE-NOTICE-NOTICE-NOTICE-
HOT DEATH UNO is not, repeat, NOT a "family" game! However cute and innocent
ordinary UNO may be, the Hot Death variation contains several obscenities and
"adult" references. It is also not 100 percent "politically correct." If
these things bother you, do not play this game. You may wish to review the
game's content before distributing it to your progeny.
*** HOT DEATH UNO IS =NOT= SHAREWARE! ***
UNO is a trademark of Parker Brothers, and the creators of Hot Death UNO and
the author of Hot Death for Windows have no legal agreements with that company
to license that trademark. Therefore, please do not send any money to the
author of this game.
Why did I choose to use the trademark anyway, right down to mimicking the basic
design of the cards? Well, it boiled down to a question of artistic vs. legal
integrity. I've been dissatisfied with the poor visual design of many
shareware and freeware games, and I resolved to make Hot Death for Windows a
more professional-looking product (at least as far as one can using Visual
Basic 1.0). It was only natural to use the design forms with which people
would already be familiar -- that is, those of the actual UNO product. In
doing so I resolved that I would accept no profit from the use of these
trademarked and copyrighted designs. The only people who have the legal right
to be making money off UNO are the folks at Parker Brothers.
Although distribution of this program is encouraged, please be sure to include
this file, README.1ST, along with it. Once again, if you paid money for this
program, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE!
HOW TO INSTALL HOT DEATH UNO
Since you are reading this document, you have already unpacked the Hot Death
UNO files from their .ZIP file. The files UNO.EXE and C00.BMP through C81.BMP
must all be in the same directory. (Please do not tamper with the .BMP files
-- while they will not cause the program to stop functioning or act
erratically, altered bitmaps will not match the ones permanently drawn into
the Help With Cards screen.)
Use the Program Manager to place Hot Death UNO in the program group of your
choice. Be sure to set the Working Directory property to the directory in
which the .BMP files are resident. UNO.EXE must have access to those files as
it runs and will crash if it cannot find them.
After you run and exit UNO.EXE for the first time, it will create a short text
file called UNO.INI. Hot Death UNO saves your Options settings between runs.
You must have the file VBRUN100.DLL in your Windows directory for Hot Death UNO
to run. Hot Death UNO does not come with this file. However, this file is
commonly available on bulletin boards and FTP sites wherever finer shareware
and freeware programs are archived.
[ADOBE TYPE MANAGER USERS: If you have the LeftyCasual font, Hot Death UNO
will use it to write the scores on the score pad. If you don't have it, try to
find it. It looks a lot better on the pad than Arial, the default.]
HOW TO PLAY HOT DEATH UNO
Hot Death UNO is played like regular UNO, with two rule changes and a flock of
new cards. These cards and their functions are described in the Help With
Cards screen. The first rule change is that Wild Draw 4 cards are not always
final. The victim of a Wild Draw 4, if he has one as well, may "stack" his on
top and make the next player suffer the effects of both cards. This stacking
process may continue on as long as players can continue to provide Wild Draw 4
cards for the stack; it also extends to two of the special Hot Death UNO cards,
the Hot Death (Wild Draw 8) and the Delayed Blast Draw 4. Another new card,
the Harvester of Sorrows, has the power to force the end of the stacking.
The second rule change is that instead of always dealing seven cards, the
dealer may choose to deal any number of cards from five to 15.
Hot Death UNO games are to 1,000 points. This score can in fact be reached in
only one hand of play. However, a more typical game, depending upon the
number of players involved, will take between 30 and 45 minutes.
You may choose to play against two to seven computer opponents. There is no
allowance for having more than one human player, but the computer opponents
should prove quite entertaining, particularly if the "Computer Players Talk"
option is checked.
You may choose the speed of the game: Slow, Normal or Fast. The Slow and
Normal settings animate each hand's deal and provide a pause before each
computer player lays a card. The Fast setting does not animate the deal and
provides no pause.
When the "Computer Players Talk" option is checked, the computer players will
trade barbs and announce Wild card color choices and victims of the targeted
cards, Glasnost and M.A.D. They will also call "UNO!" when they are down to
one card. (You do not ever have to call "UNO!" yourself.) When this option is
turned off, vital messages will be displayed in message boxes, but you will not
be notified when a computer player is down to one card! If you have to be away
from your computer, however, you may wish to turn the talk option off to make
sure you do not miss anything significant.
The "Show Cards at End of Hand" option provides a list of the cards each
computer player holds at the end of a hand. Sometimes -- particularly when you
play against many computer opponents -- these lists will be so long that they
will overflow the screen, and you will be unable to click on the "OK" button
to move on. If you cannot see the "OK" button, just press "Enter" and the
program will continue. This problem is most serious for users with 640x480
VGA displays. Users with 800x640 or 1024x768 displays should find their screen
space ample for end-of-hand card lists.
The "Sissy Game" is a standard UNO game, played with only one deck. (Hot Death
UNO is played with two.) The game ends when one player's score reaches 500
points.
To make room for the cards, which do not overlap -- mainly because I couldn't
figure out how to get Visual Basic 1.0 to overlap them -- scroll bars will
appear next to hands that hold more than six cards. Pressing Control-R will
sort your cards by color and number, making it easier to evaluate your hand.
The option is also available from the Game pull-down menu.
To play a card, double-click on it. Hot Death UNO will not allow you to make
an illegal play. All drawing of cards is handled automatically. If a Draw
card is played on you, but the computer seems to be waiting for your input, it
probably is -- usually that means you have a card that can counter or deflect
the effects of the hostile card. Scroll through your cards to find the one
you can play. If you decide you would rather draw than play, double-click on
the draw pile.
The score pad will appear automatically at the end of each round, but you can
call it up any time it is your turn by pressing Control-S or selecting "Show
Scores" from the Game menu.
When you are eliminated from a hand by the effects of a card, the computer
players will keep playing before you until the hand is finished. This process
can take a while -- long enough for some screen savers to try to kick in. If
the display seems to be acting strangely while the computer players do their
thing, it's probably your screen saver trying to assert itself, only to be
yanked off again by the appearance of a computer player's talk window. You
can avoid this problem simply by twitching your mouse from time to time.
THE HOT DEATH CREED:
*** ONE GOOD DRAW TWO DESERVES ANOTHER! ***
6/6/93
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