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- BSX's No-License Nonsense Statement!
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- This product (C) 1989 BSX International
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- This software is provided "as is" with no guarantees of any kind. You,
- the user, are permitted and encouraged to distribute it and use it, but
- under the following conditions:
-
- 1) You absolutely, positively may not sell this program.
-
- 2) Under no circumstances should you distribute versions of this pro-
- duct which have been altered in any way without the permission of BSX
- International.
-
- 3) Under no circumstances should you remove the copyright notices from
- the code or from the documentation which is provided with it.
-
- 4) This is a shareware product. You may use it for free for a short
- period. After that you must either register or stop using it. You may
- still distribute it, however.
- If you find this program to be a blast, you ought to send along a
- $5.00 registration fee to:
-
- BSX International
- 806 Park Ridge Rd. Apt. A8
- Durham, NC 27713
-
- Make checks payable to Robert Roberds. Thanx!
-
- Pre-Documentation "Don't Panic" Reassurance
-
- Look, it's real easy. These dox are nice, and you oughtta skim them.
- But we gotta tell you: It's a true gut to use DAMMIT!, dammit.
-
-
- DAMMIT!: THE BSX SOLITAIRE DOODAD
-
- 0. Facts and Stats
-
- This system contains the following files:
- DAMMIT.EXE -The executable program.
- DAMMIT.PAT -A graphic image file.
- DAMMIT2.PAT -Another graphic image file.
- DAMMIT3.PAT -YAGIF (Yet another graphic image file).
- DAMMIT.DOC -This document.
-
- System requirements:
- IBM PC,XT,AT,PS/2 or compatible.
- 256K RAM at the very least.
- EGA or VGA card with 256K of memory.
- Microsoft Mouse or compatible.
-
- I. That Darn Solitaire
-
- I don't really know the official name of this type of solitaire card
- game, but I have opted to call it DAMMIT! because I seem to say that an
- awful lot while playing it. I learned it from a college roomie, who had
- himself learned it from an obviously sadomasochistic kid at the summer
- camp where he worked. And it goes something...like...this:
- You shuffle the deck and, one at a time, take cards from it and lay
- them out in a 4x4 grid. The goal is to get the face cards in this pattern
- here:
- K | Q | Q | K
- -------------
- J | | | J
- -------------
- J | | | J
- -------------
- K | Q | Q | K
-
- When you have filled the grid, you can then discard all the tens and
- all the pairs of non-face cards whose values add up to ten (aces count as
- ones). Then you fill the grid again, and discard, and fill, ad nauseum,
- until the face cards are all out in the above pattern. But you lose if
- you can't place a face card, or if you fill the grid and it has no tens
- or pairs that add to ten. It's rough; it's tough; it's in the buff. Be
- prepared to get yer butt kicked a lot. But the thrill of victory makes
- the agony of defeat worthwhile.
- Variations: some people like to wimp out and play by the rules that
- let you not only eliminate tens and pairs that add to ten, but also to
- eliminate ANY groups that add to ten; say a six, a three and an ace. This
- is an unbelievably weenie thing to do, but DAMMIT now offers it as an
- option.
-
- II. Using DAMMIT!
-
- This is really easy. Just make sure you have DAMMIT.EXE, DAMMIT.PAT,
- DAMMIT2.PAT, and DAMMIT3.PAT in the default directory and type
- dammit
- at the DOS prompt. You'll see the opening screen and cruise on to an all-
- nighter of solitaire madness. You take cards from the deck by clicking
- on it. You put the now face-up deck card in a grid square by clicking in
- the square. Note that face cards will only go into their appropriate pos-
- itions, and that the cursor becomes a hand there. Other cards may go in
- any square. Starting with version 5.0, DAMMIT! has had the "oh jeez I
- didn't mean to put it there" option. If you put a card in a grid square
- and then realize that that wasn't what you wanted, you can hit the right
- button to put it back on the top of the deck and place it over again. But
- after turning over the next card, there ain't no such option. That ain't
- allowed in the card game, and it ain't allowed here.
- Once the grid is filled you can eliminate tens by clicking on
- them, and you can eliminate pairs by first clicking on one card to high-
- light it, then clicking the other. If you change your mind after high-
- lighting a card, just hit the right mouse button to unselect it. Click on
- the deck to start filling again.
- Rule varations: Starting with DAMMIT! 6.0, you have had the option to
- choose to play by the wimpy rules; that is, allowing the elimination of
- not just tens and pairs that add to ten, but of all groups that add to
- ten. 'Tis wimpy, but 'tis offered, because BSX International has only YER
- best interests at heart.
- DAMMIT! is truly idiot-proof; I know because I've tested it myself a
- million times, doing all sorts of idiotic stuff. Lose the .PAT files, or
- forget the rules of the game, or try to run on a system w/o EGA or mouse:
- NO sweat! DAMMIT! WILL NOT crash. Nothing's more annoying than a game
- that crashes. Also, it's VERY user-friendly; you never touch the keyboard
- so you only have to use your mouse hand. You other hand is free to do
- anything else. But let's not talk about that. You might want to disable
- mouse-ignorant screen savers, or the screen may blank and scare the very
- bejeebers outta you, until you remember that all you gotta do is hit a
- key. Happens to me a lot when using mouse-only applications.
- One nifty option is the silent playing mode. This lets you
- play without any of the cute music playing on startup and after winning
- or losing. So you can play without bosses/and or parents and/or your
- roommate(s) kicking yer hiney. To run DAMMIT! in silent mode, just use
- the parameter -s (or -S) on the command line, as in
- C>dammit -s.
-
- III. Technical Info
-
- DAMMIT! was written over a weekend of serious beer-drinking and hard-
- core Chinese food-eating. It was done in Turbo Pascal 4.0 on an IBM PC
- with an Intel Inboard 386, an Atasi 40Mb hard drive, a Vega EGA card, and
- a Microsoft bus mouse.
- The mouse routines used were those in the Public Domain TP4 unit known
- as EGAMOUSE, by Eduardo Martins. This is a fine, simple-to-use unit that
- comes with source, allowing for easy modification. I modified it to make
- the vertical arrow shape in DAMMIT!, along with a bunch more.
-
- IV. Acknowledgements
-
- Thanks to all you who've sent donations to BSX International and its
- predecessor, Bigsoft Industries. Even the letter from the guy in Kuwait
- was appreciated, although he CLAIMED he didn't have any American money to
- send. I would have liked a couple oil wells, but you know. Additional
- thanx are due to Vernon Huang, Donna Brown, and a bunch of other folks
- who have made a point of telling me how badly my programs suck.
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- V. Version Info
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- Version 6.0 released 15 Aug. 89. Rules option added.
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- Version 5.1 released 25 Jul. 89. Cursor changed so it's a vertical
- arrow when placing a non-face card in an empty square.
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- Version 5.0 released 24 Jul. 89. Graphics of card backs and card grid
- changed. "Didn't mean to do that" option added. Hilite color changed to
- light cyan for added coolness. Exiting whine for money added.
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- Version 4.0 released 10 Jun. 89. Graphics speeded up for you 4.77 Mhz
- losers. Silent mode added.
-
- Version 3.0 released 9 Jun. 89. Card graphics improved even more.
-
- Version 2.0 released 8 Jun. 89. Card graphics improved immensely, in
- particular, the face cards. To Win! song improved. Copyright notice put
- into opening screen. Various enhancements and bug fixes.
-
- Version 1.0 released 6 Jun. 89. Initial release. Decision made to
- use The Internationale for opening screen music to show support for the
- Beijing massacre victims and their fellow pro-democracy activists.
-
- -----
- Bob Roberds BSX International
- "The Ayatollah of Rock 'n' Rollah"
- Durham, North Carolina August 1989
- "The Arch over the world, O Builder!"
- PS: Quit whining and just wear yer (expletive deleted)ing seatbelt.