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- MONOPOLY V1.4
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- Copyright © Parker Bros.
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- This Amiga version Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996 Al Metz
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- This is my first publicly distributed program. I hope you like it!
-
- This program is freeware. That means that while I hold the copyright
- on the programming, you are free to distribute it. I expressly give my
- permission for this to be included on a Fred Fish or Aminet disk. If you
- like it spread it near and far.
-
- Why Monopoly? I've had my Amiga for years but I've seen no good PD
- version of Monopoly for it. Of the two I've seen one wouldn't run at all
- and the other wasn't very good. Not only did it not have any computer
- players, it also had two bugs the author knew about (I found another on
- my own). The author stated in the docs that he wasn't going to make a
- revised version. It was written in C and the author welcomed anyone to
- revise the code to improve the game. While I knew nothing about C, I
- felt I could make a better game with AmigaBASIC. My efforts were stalled
- when I couldn't get the sprites to appear on the game screen with
- AmigaBASIC. After a while I bought AMOS Professional. AMOS has plenty
- of commands for sprites and bobs and the included sprite editor makes it
- easy to pluck sprite shapes from any IFF picture. It took me a while but
- this is the result. I have tried to make this as good as possible while
- staying close to the original Monopoly board game. Some improvements over
- the other version: computer players, pieces that resemble the real things
- and options for house rules. I don't recall seeing multi-color menus in
- any other program regardless of what language it was written in.
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- This archive should contain the following files:
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- Legalstuff Legalstuff.info
- Monopoly.doc Monopoly.doc.info
- Monopoly_V1.4 Monopoly_V1.4.info
- OfficalRules.txt OfficalRules.txt.info
- Readme Readme.info
- Title.anim Title.anim.info
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- Credits:
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- This Monopoly game was written with AMOS Professional and compiled with
- the AMOS Professional Compiler.
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- The game board is from the Ed Musgrove version. It has been extensively
- modified including the color and most of the special spaces like 'Go To
- Jail' and the railroads. In the process of these modifications it was
- also changed from a 320X200 IFF file to a 640X200 one.
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- The game board and play pieces were designed and modified with The
- Graphics Studio and Deluxe Paint IV.
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- The title animations were created with DPaint IV.
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- The icon for the Monopoly program was taken from the game board using
- Workbench's IconEdit.
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- The icons for the text files are modified Final Copy icons.
-
- History:
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- VERSION 1.0 - First version.
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- VERSION 1.01 - Slight changes in text files and copyright notice.
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- VERSION 1.02 - Slight change to intro animation.
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- VERSION 1.4 -This Version. 3 big bug fixes involving a 'houses remaining'
- that wouldn't leave, 'press any key to continue' that would
- accidently roll the dice and a bug involving property that
- would suddenly be owned by no-one when someone went bankrupt.
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- I also fixed a minor bug which would display a hotel where
- one of the dice should be if you selected "Quit All" from
- the menu before anyone took a turn.
-
- Enhancements include:
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- You now use left mouse button instead of space bar when done
- looking at who owns what properties.
- Now uses point-and-click to answer opening questions.
- You can now save your pre-game settings.
- You can now click on 'OK' or 'CANCEL' to answer Yes or No
- questions.
- You can now click on a property, the dice, or the 'OK' button
- (but not the 'CANCEL' button) to roll the dice.
- You can now use 'CANCEL' to escape from a buy or sell when it
- asks for the selling/buying price.
- Added 'cannon' and 'train' game pieces as seen in the Deluxe
- Monopoly board game. I didn't want to be left with an odd
- number of pieces so I added a 'Boing' piece too.
- Now shows who owns other properties of the same color group
- (unless the bank owns them) when one property is auctioned.
- When playing with Playmaster rules and there is a Buyback with
- no singly owned properties of the selected color group, the
- word "None" will appear in the same color as the selected
- color group.
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- Known bugs: NONE
-
- I would like to thank my playtesters Tom Metz, Jesus White, Pat & Jill
- (who didn't want their last names mentioned) and special thanks to Steve
- 'Amiga Dude' Edford for uploading this to Aminet for me.
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- If you find any bugs BLAME THEM! :-)
-
- Seriously, if you find any bugs, let me know.
-
- While this program isn't shareware so you aren't required to send money,
- I certainly wouldn't refuse any money, blank disks, diamonds,sports cars,
- Amiga 4000's, etc... you would like to send. Good or bad, let me know
- how you like it. Or if you have any suggestions for improvements send
- them too. I'd love to hear from you!
-
- If you'd like the latest version just send me a blank floppy with a self
- addressed mailer with proper postage (so it doesn't cost ME anything) and
- I'll send the latest version out to you. Naturally I'm not responsible
- for lost or misdirected mail.
-
- My U.S.Mail address is:
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- Al Metz
- 6O6 Inverness Ave.
- Louisville, KY 4O214-1221
- U.S.A.
-
- You can also contact me on Amiga run Louisville area bbs's such as LCC at
- (502) 933-5479 or Amiga Online at (502) 367-8601 through my good friend
- Racer X. (Sorry, no Internet address!)
-
- What's next? My next major project will be a game. I don't want to give
- anything away in case I can't finish it for some reason.
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