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- Seahaven Towers 2.0 For Microsoft Windows
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- This is Seahaven Towers, a solitaire card game featured in the San Jose, CA
- Mercury News Computing section on June 5, 1994. The goal of this game is
- to arrange the deck of cards into the four suits. The game begins with
- the entire deck visible, and you must rearrange the cards and move them into
- the order Ace, 2, 3, ... King. Many users find this game highly addictive,
- and have suggested it be treated as a controlled substance.
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- Additional features of the game include:
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- - a status bar that tells you why a move can not be made
- - sound effects that can be toggled on or off
- - an autoplay mode that automates the tedium of making obvious moves
- - more than one game can be played at a time; game windows can be
- iconified, and all games and window positions are remembered across
- sessions
- - full undo and redo, all the way back to the start of the game
- - a win & loss history is kept, and the history can be cleared
- when the losses start to pass the wins :-)
- - maintains a history of your longest winning and losing streaks
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- This game is shareware, and I am asking for a $10 registration fee. This
- version of the game is a demonstration version, and has all of the above
- features, except that two of the features have been limited:
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- - the autoplay will only move cards Ace through 6, you will have to
- move cards 7 - King yourself,
- - the Undo/Redo will only operate on the last three moves; because
- undo is used to start a game over, you can't start a game over
- once you have moved more than three cards.
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- In the registered version, autoplay works on all of the cards, and Undo/Redo
- will work all the way back to the start of the game. The registered
- version will also allow you to start a game over from the beginning.
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- Registered users receive FREE updates via email! If you do not have email,
- then updates will cost $1.50 (US) to cover the cost of disks and postage.
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- If you have any questions or comments please send them to me at
- farrier@netcom.com on the Internet, or CFARRIER on America Online.
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- Cary Farrier
- Internet: farrier@netcom.com
- America Online: CFARRIER
- PO Box 1636
- Los Gatos, CA 95031-1636
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- LEGAL STUFF: Permission is given to freely redistribute the shareware
- (unregistered) version of Seahaven Towers in any form, provided that this
- text file is distributed unmodified with the game.
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- REVISION HISTORY:
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- Changes from version 1.0 to 1.5:
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- - added large card images, good for 800x600 and up resolutions
- - added a longest winning streak and a longest losing streak
- to the score history
- - improved card interaction, it is now much easier to drop cards
- around the screen (the cards only have to touch, the cursor no
- longer must be over the place where you want to move the card).
- - fixed a memory leak bug
- - fixed some display refresh problems
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- Changes from version 1.5 to 1.6:
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- - Daniel Di Bacco created some beautiful card backs and a new icon
- for the game. Be sure to check out the "Seahaven" card back, it
- will change depending on the time of day you start the game (or
- when you select it from the Options menu, too.)
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- Changes from version 1.6 to 1.6.1:
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- - Fixed a bug that would cause the program not to run.
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- Changes from version 1.6.1 to 2.0:
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- - Added good looking small cards, replacing the psuedo cards from
- previous versions
- - Added small card backs (scaled down versions of the large backs);
- keep an eye on the changing "Seahaven" card back here, too.
- - The game window positions are now remembered.
- - Game will default to card deck best suited to user's display
- on the first run of the game.
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