This Read me file is available for every Mac user and I encourage you to tell me any trick or fatal bug in order to make a solid code for a wide range of MacOS versions and Macs, though I'm not going to lose time to make Briscola running on oldest machines. Minimum requirements are written below.
What have you got in Briscola 1.1 ƒ folder ?
Briscola 1.1: this fat binary application runs on every Macintosh or Power Macintosh. It's accelerated for PowerMacintosh !
Revision History: notes written during the development of the program.
Register: the stand-alone application from Kagi Shareware to register your copy of Briscola.
Briscola Read me: this file, of course !
Briscola Leggimi: the Italian Read me file.
What is Briscola ?
Briscola 1.1 is a card game for Macintosh and PowerMacintosh. This game is well known in Italy as briscola, but is known as atout for French people and as trump for English ones.
The briscola is the suit of the card which lies below the pack. Sometimes somebody considers briscola that card. Any card whose suit is briscola, should be kept jealously to get as more as opponent's points.The aim is to get more than 60 points, half of 120 available points. You have to face your opponent 20 times.
Your cards are shown at the bottom of the window, the upper cards belong to your Mac. If you play a card, you have to drag it at the middle of the window and when you pick up from the pack, you have to drag the upper card of the pack to your card area.
These priorities establish who wins the set: the card has the same suit of briscola, the value of the card and the card which has been played first.
These are the card values: Ace is worth 11 points, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 aren't worth anything, 3 is worth 10 points, Jack is worth 2 points, Queen is worth 3 points, King is worth 4 points. When a player wins a hand, he/she leads the next hand. When the pack cards are finished up, the last player has to pick up the briscola card which lay below the pack. Then the opponents complete the match without picking up.
Shareware notes
Briscola 1.1 is shareware; it is NOT free. If you like Briscola and play it, you should pay the $5 small registration fee. An unregistered copy of Briscola hasn't special restrictions, so that hackers have spare time to crack a lot of other software. When Kagi receives your registration, we'll send you the code to avoid the default dialog at start.
How to register Briscola
You may use the Register application and Kagi registers Briscola for you. Kagi Shareware System accepts any other payment method (cash, checks, invoices, VISA, MasterCard, American Express, NetCash, First Virtual).
In addition to cash in various currencies and US dollar checks drawn on US banks, Kagi Shareware also accepts credit card registrations by mail, fax, or email (your card number is scrambled). For organizations, they handle invoices and site licenses, too. For more information, you could run the enclosed “Register” program. It'll create a customized registration form and tells you where to send it.
We make updates available on Mac software archive sites and on a lot of CD-ROM shareware collections. Once you register, you remain registered for some future shareware versions of Briscola. If you register Briscola 1.1, we guarantee you receive every next revision of Briscola up to a next major release.
Briscola may be distributed freely so long as it is accompanied by its Readme files and other original stuff and that none of these items have been modified.
CD-ROM shareware collections
If you intend to include Briscola into a new shareware CD-ROM collection, you should contact us by email and ask for our authorization. Anyway any Internet site, that receives Briscola directly from the author, could distribute and promote Briscola on CD-ROMs too.You may distribute Briscola for free, without modifying any file or read me you got. You should ask for our authorization also if you have already obtained it in the past.
Briscola 1.1 requirements
Minimum requirements:
- System 7.0.
- RAM: 1500 KB available for Briscola.
- Color QuickDraw.
- any processor, 680x0 or PowerPC.
Legal Stuff
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS". IT HAS NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE AUTHORS OF THIS SOFTWARE PACKAGE COULD NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OF THE USAGE MADE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND OF ANY DAMAGE THAT IT COULD CAUSE (IN ANY CASE). THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDE THE COMPLETE AGREEMENT OF THIS DISCLAIMER NOTICE.
How to contact
My Emails:
tenuti@dei.unipd.it
tencas@kagi.com
Try also to look at Tencas's home page at Kagi site:
