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- Disk No 993
- Program Title: BOARD GAMES
- PC-SIG version 1.1
-
- PC-PENTE is a game which has its roots in the ancient game of Go. The
- board is constructed of solid lines which create a grid on the playing
- board. The object of Pente is simple: either get five of your pieces in a
- row OR capture ten of your opponent's pieces by surrounding them with your
- pieces.
-
- PC-PENTE contains the logic needed to automatically check for captured
- pairs, remove them from the board, and increment the players scores. As
- in the original game, when five pairs have been taken by one of the
- players, the game is over. It is also okay to form a pair between two
- enemy pieces, as PC-PENTE checks if a pair was actually captured or if a
- player "moved into" a capture situation, in which case the player in the
- middle would not be taken. In addition, it checks for all five-in-a-row
- combinations and terminates the program if one is found.
-
- PC-PENTE assumes that you already know how to play the game, but in case
- you don't, RULES.COM contains a concise overview of the basic strategy of
- PENTE.
-
- PYRAMIDS is a strategy game based on an ancient Egyptian theme. You and
- the Pharaoh Cheops are contending to discover the other's pyramid before
- yours is discovered. You each have a set of pieces consisting of
- sphinxes, lions, bulls, rams, wolves, hawks, camels, cats, antelopes, and
- a cobra. Each animal has special powers.
-
- The key to this game is that you can see your opponent's pieces and your
- opponent can see your pieces, but you do not know the rank and power of
- your opponent's pieces until you attack or are attacked by one. This is
- also true of your opponent, who doesn't know the rank of your pieces until
- he attacks. This version of the game is the limited version and only
- plays to fifty turns.
-
- YAHTZEE is the classic dice game we've all played in which you try to
- collect pairs, three-of-a-kinds, full houses, and the like for points by
- rolling six dice. From each roll, you may pick up from one to six of the
- dice and re-roll them, to try and better the score you receive for the
- roll. Once a slot has been filled, you cannot get that roll again. For
- example, if you roll a full house, and then roll another full house, the
- second full house does not supercede the first one.
-
- Usage: Entertainment.
-
- System Requirements: Yahtzee requires BASIC or GW-BASIC.
-
- How to Start: Type IBMPENTE (press enter) for the CGA version, PCPENTE
- (press enter) for the Hercules version, and PYRAMIDS (press enter) to run
- PYRAMIDS.
-
- Suggested Registration: $10.00 for PYRAMIDS, $10.00 for PENTE and $5.00 for
- YAHTZE.
-
- File Description:
-
- PCPENTE COM Hercules graphics card version of main program.
- IBMPENTE COM CGA/Tandy version of main program.
- ERROR MSG Error message file used by main program.
- 4X6 FON Font file used by main program.
- RULES COM Program to print the rules to the screen.
- HARDSET BAT Copies the files to you hard disk.
- NOTES TXT Expanded file descriptions.
- FILES TXT Listing of PENTE files.
- ??????? PYR Data files for PYRAMIDS(6 files).
- MANUAL DOC Documentation for PYRAMIDS.
- PYRAMIDS EXE Game program.
- SETUP EXE Configuration program
- README TXT Documentation for YAHTZEE.
- YAHTZEE BAS Game program.
- YAHTZEE DOC Documentation.
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