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- Introduction:
-
- Ultimate Backgammon has an easy to use menu system.
- At the bottom right portion of the screen you will
- see the menu area. To select a menu item, you may
- either type the first character of the menu item
- (i.e. "F" for Forfeit), or click the mouse cursor
- (if you have a mouse) on the desired menu item.
-
-
- Main Menu Commands:
-
- Options:
-
- Selecting the Options entry from the main menu will
- display the options sub-menu consisting of the
- following (a detailed description of the options is
- in your users manual)
-
- Load/Save : Load a previously saved game or
- Save a game in progress
-
- Modem/Net Play : Allows you to Play Backgammon
- over a modem or network with
- another Ultimage Backgammon user.
- See the "Modem/Network Play"
- section of your printed manual
- for more information.
-
- History : Select player/View score history
-
- Board : Lets you load a different board
- design.
-
- Defaults : Allows you to define the
- "Default" configuration settings
- for Ultimate Backgammon.
-
- Tourn : Allows you to play a point based
- tournament against the computer.
-
- Game Log : Writes a log of all moves to the
- disk.
-
- Edit Game : Displays the game edit menu.
- See the manual for more info.
-
-
- Double:
-
- The Double command is used to double the stakes
- of the game. Initially neither player owns the
- doubling cube, and it's value is set to 1, it
- appears in the middle of the board. Either player
- may offer to double when the doubling cube is
- unowned. As soon as one player offers to double
- the player who accepts the double gets possession
- of the cube and then only he may double (the cube
- changes color to the color of the player). If
- either player refuses the double, that player
- forfeits the game.
-
- Style:
-
- The style command allows you to change the games
- style of play. There are three styles of play
- available:
-
- Conservative, Aggressive, and Out For Blood.
-
- Backup:
-
- Allows you to backup to the beginning of your Turn.
-
- Forfeit:
-
- If you clearly see you are loosing and you don't
- want to hear the remarks the computer makes when
- it wins, select Forfeit to abandon the game.
- (It will however be scored as a loss for you).
-
- Quit:
-
- When dinners ready or you simply can't tolerate
- any more backgammon, type the Q key and the game
- will return you to DOS.
-
- Help:
-
- Selecting help will display this help file on
- your screen during play.
-
-
- Rolling the Dice:
-
- The space bar is used to roll the dice. When
- it's your turn to move, hit the space bar to
- roll the dice.
-
- Mouse Users may roll the dice by clicking the
- left mouse button anywhere on the playing board
- or in the dice area.
-
- Moving/Playing:
-
- Please note: The "BAR" is slot 0.
-
- Keyboard Users:
-
- To move a man type an "M". A form will appear
- near the bottom of the screen. Enter the
- location you wish to move from and the value
- of the dice you wish to use separated by a comma,
- (e.g entering a "12,5", would move your man from
- the 12 slot 5 spaces). The bar is designated as
- slot 0. Press enter to complete the move or the
- ESC key to cancel a move.
-
- Mouse Users:
-
- To move a man simply click the mouse cursor on
- the man you wish to move, that man will then
- become the mouse cursor. Move the man where you
- wish it to be and click the mouse button again.
-
- Multiple-Move: You may move a man more than one
- dice at a time, for instance if you rolled a
- 5 and an 3, you could move one man eight spaces
- by selecting the destination slot as 8 from the
- origin slot. However either the 5 or the 3
- move must be a legal move for that man.
-
- AutoMove : There are 4 levels of "Auto Move"
- available, see the explanation of Auto Moves
- in the printed manual.
-
- Bearing Off:
-
- Keyboard Users:
-
- Bearing off men is the same as moving them,
- simply select the man you wish to bear off
- followed by the dice value you wish to use to
- move the man.
-
- Mouse Users:
-
- Simply pick up a man with the mouse cursor and
- drop it in the bear off tray to bear off a man.
-
- (************ END OF HELP FILE ********)