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- Short: Guide Index to Card Games CD, Klondike directory.
- Author: gss@arts.gla.ac.uk (Rastan)
- Uploader: gss@arts.gla.ac.uk (Rastan)
- Type: disk/cdrom
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- PRESENTS
- NUMBER: --
- NAME: KLONDIKE III HD FIX
- DETAILS: LETS YOU PLAY CARDS FROM ANYWHERE!
- RELEASE: 10-NOV-95.
- UPDATED: 29-JAN-97. (Happy birthday to me!) :-)
-
-
- Hi, this is something I dug out after I got hold of PD Soft's
- Card Games CD, and saw they claimed the cardsets could be played
- directly off CD.. WRONG!! It's OK if you play it with their
- version on CD, but try playing it with your own version. No go.
-
- Anyway, I've dug out the docs for the original Klondike fix and
- I decided to write a standard Commodore installer script, to make
- things as easy as possible for people to use. I also changed it
- a little bit so that you shouldn't have to change a thing once you
- install this fix (for people who run it off a launcher like
- Task Bar, Tools Daemon, whatever)....
-
- What now follows is the original documentation from the version
- I sent down to Active Software as it was destined for their
- Klondike Gold, but seeing as there was some dispute between PD Soft
- and Active Software and the cardsets ended up being used on their
- Card Games CD, I don't think that's going to be seeing the light
- of day :-( (Oh, and according to other authors of cardsets on
- the CD, it's actually Chris from Active who is the baddie here,
- not PD Soft... I got told otherwise by Chris.. Believe who you
- like, I'm sure it'll all come out in the end!).
-
-
- ==== ORIGINAL DOCS FOLLOW... ====
-
- OK folks, just a quicky here... This is a small patch
- I wrote for myself almost as soon as I got the HD version
- of KLONDIKE III (ages ago in other words). It was only ever
- meant for my ease of use, so I'm sorry it's a bit crap, but
- I don't even pretend to be a programmer....
-
- Anyway, what this does is a hacked-up way of letting you
- use the file requester in Klondike PROPERLY! You see, at the
- moment the file requester is a bit crap (sorry REKO).. It
- only lets you point to the CARDS directory in the REKO dir.
-
- But, what if you want to play the cardsets from CD? For
- example, SCI-FI SENSATIONS and the NFA AGA EXPERIENCE both
- have cardsets unpacked on the CD. But you have to go through
- the hassle of copying the cardset to the CARDS DIR on your HD.
- Now you don't.
-
- (Oops.. Had to change this bit heheh)...
-
- All you do is run the intall script, and answer the simple
- questions.... Basically you just show the installer where you
- have the old version of Klondike installed, then say if you want
- the old one backed up (just in case).
-
- The only other thing it asks is if you want to have your CARDS:
- and MUSIC: assigns pointing to the default locations (ie the
- music and cards directories in the Klondike program directory),
- and if not it asks you to pick the new directories.
-
-
-
- Once you have done this, you will be able to play the game as
- normal, but say you get a new CD with cardsets and you don't want
- to have to copy them over to your HD to play them?
-
- Well, just run the game, then point an assign to the directory
- with the new cardsets in them.
-
- For example, if you wanted to point it to the new cards on PD SOFT's
- Card Games CD, you would run the game, pop back to Workbench and
- type "ASSIGN CARDS CARDS_CD:KLONDIKE-III/CARDS", go back to the
- game and press F to bring up the file requester.
-
- Oh yes, this fix also applies to the music file-requester as well,
- so you don't have to copy the MED tunes over to the MUSIC DIR..
-
- I hope that makes sense?
-
- You get the idea? Hope so..
-
-
- Like I said before, I'm sorry it's a bit crap, but with REKO
- apparently leaving the Amiga (NO!!!!!), it's the only way this
- bug is gonna get fixed by the looks of things.. Unless some
- cool programmer wants to fix it so it uses a REAL file requester?
-
- Incidentally, in case anyone I know is wondering, I haven't bothered
- releasing this through the normal channels because it's a simple fix
- for an old game, so I just released it to ACTIVE SOFTWARE..
-
-
- (Well, that was sort of the original docs - about 2 sentences of it!
- If you don't believe me, the only other copy is lying somewhere at
- Active Software heheheheheheheh)...
-
-
-
- KNOWN BUGS
- ==========
-
- None that I know of. I have tested the game extensively since day one,
- and the only problem I can see is if you re-assign either CARDS: or
- MUSIC: and then try and use the built in prefs file (ie pressing
- 1-0 or shift 1-0), as it will try and load the music/cards file
- based on what is set in your prefs file... Not a lot I can do about
- that.. You have to re-assign the offending assign back to normal.
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- 7325 2244 69.3% 04-Feb-97 21:57:54 +Klondike_Update_Install
- 3341 1852 44.5% 04-Feb-97 22:15:46 +Klondike_Update_Install.info
- 41608 17434 58.0% 14-Nov-94 15:43:40 +KlondikeIII-Update
- 1574 726 53.8% 18-Jan-97 22:10:34 +KlondikeIII-Update.inf
- 1233 592 51.9% 04-Feb-97 22:15:58 KLONDIKE_UPDATE.info
- 5048 2447 51.5% 04-Feb-97 22:14:36 +Klondike_Update.guide
- 5184 794 84.6% 04-Feb-97 22:15:46 +Klondike_Update.guide.info
- 4784 2332 51.2% 04-Feb-97 22:14:52 +Klondike_Update.txt
- 491 261 46.8% 04-Feb-97 22:19:26 file_id.diz
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