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- Tasholiiwe v1.0s is a 256 color shareware version of an ancient Anasazi
- game. The name 'Tasholiiwe' is Zuni Indian for 'wooden dice', which is
- also the name of their version of this game, but this is far from an
- exclusively Zuni game. Take a map of the U.S. and divide it roughly in
- the middle -- right through the Great Plains -- forming a west and east
- half. This game, Tasholiiwe, under various names and forms, was played
- by many of the tribes inhabiting the western half of the division from
- very ancient times. Its most notable and prominent forms come from the
- Zuni, Hopi, Navajo, and Kiowa Apache, but many other tribes had versions
- -- the Laguna, the Commanche, the Cheyenne, the Keres, the Walapai, the
- Havasupai, the Tigua, the Shoshone, etc., etc. It is a very ancient, and
- venerable, game and may be older than even the Anasazi themselves who surely
- played it.
-
- Tasholiiwe was used in a religious and ritualistic sense for divination
- -- the throw of the sticks was thought to be able to tell the future
- -- forecast war or peace, prosperity or famine, joy or sorrow.
- It is said that even today, the game is used by many of the Pueblo
- tribes to bring rain. This game requires VBRUN300.DLL to play.
-
- TASHO.ZIP should yield the following program files when un-zipped:
-
- README TXT
- HORSE10 WAV
- BUMP10 WAV
- BUMP11 WAV
- BUMP1 WAV
- BUMP2 WAV
- BUMP3 WAV
- BUMP4 WAV
- BUMP5 WAV
- BUMP6 WAV
- BUMP7 WAV
- BUMP8 WAV
- BUMP9 WAV
- HORSE1 WAV
- WINIT WAV
- HORSE2 WAV
- HORSE3 WAV
- HORSE4 WAV
- HORSE5 WAV
- HORSE6 WAV
- HORSE7 WAV
- HORSE8 WAV
- HORSE9 WAV
- PROLOG WAV
- RAIN1 WAV
- RAIN2 WAV
- STICK1 WAV
- STICK2 WAV
- STICK3 WAV
- STICK4 WAV
- WATER1 WAV
- WATER2 WAV
- WATER3 WAV
- WATER4 WAV
- TASHO HLP
- TASHO EXE
- TASHO2 MID
- ANASAFAC TXT
- TASHO1 MID
-
- Tasholiiwe is written in Visual Basic 3.0. As such it
- requires that VBRUN300.DLL exists in your Windows System directory.
-
- If you have trouble installing the game on your system you can
- contact me by:
-
- E-Mail at:
-
- CompuServe: 74212,1123 or
-
- Internet: psneeley@compuserve.com
- or psneeley@bigfoot.com
- or psneeley@vii.com
-
- or by Mail:
-
- Steve Neeley
- 248 W. 3325 N.
- North Ogden, UT 84414
-
- You can also come by my homepage at:
-
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PSNeeley
-
- To install Tasholiiwe, please do the following:
-
- 1. Check that VBRUN300.DLL is in your Windows System directory. If not,
- please download a copy (there should be a copy on the BBS from which
- you downloaded TASHO.ZIP or you can get it from my homepage above).
-
- 2. Create a directory TASHO.
-
- 3. Copy all the files 'unzipped' from TASHO.ZIP
- to this new TASHO directory.
-
- 4. Create a program manager icon for TASHO.EXE by adding it as a file
- in your GAMES program manager group.
-
- That's it.
-
- Thanks for trying Tasholiiwe. I hope it's challenging, fun, and
- educational at the same time.
-
- Steve
-