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- Terrace Card Game for Windows
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- Copyright (c) 1992-94 P.B.Cook
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- Shareware Version 2.1
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- 31 January 1994
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- <<<<<<<<<<<<< WIN FREE REGISTRATION OF TERRACE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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- If you can succeed in completing the Generals Patience and follow the
- instructions that appear in the game to print out a copy of the resultant
- winning screen then I will provide you with a unique FREE registration
- number for your personal use.
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- ! Only one registration per person !
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- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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- 0. Documentation
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- For full documentation consult the Windows on-line Help File.
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- 1. Shareware
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- The program TERRACE.EXE comprising the Card Game 'Terrace' and this
- documentation file is distributed as 'Shareware'. It is a fully
- functioning program. You may evaluate the program for a period of 30 days,
- after which continued use of the program requires registration with the
- author.
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- I don't ask much for the registration fee, and will be pleased to send you
- an updated version of the program when you register provided you supply a
- disk and cover my costs.
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- To register see the online Help File.
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- 2. Introduction
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- The Terrace Card Game is a two pack patience game described by David
- Pelter in his book 'The Penguin Book of Patience'. It has numerous names
- used around the world and may more prosaically be called 'Queen of Italy'
- or 'Signora'. The game 'Terrace' is one of a family of related games with
- slightly varying rules and layouts. The principle variants described in
- the book have all been implemented in this program.
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- The program is written using Turbo Pascal for Windows from Borland (an
- excellent language product which I can thoroughly recommend).
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- 3. Installation
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- 3.1 Requirements
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- An IBM PC AT or compatible. Microsoft Windows V3+. A mouse.
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- The program has been tested running under Microsoft Windows V3.0 and V3.1
- using hardware varying from an 8Mhz Tandon AT to an IBM 386DX Portable on
- a range of display adaptors.
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- 3.2 Installation
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- You should receive this software as a single self extracting archive file
- using the LZH format from Yoshi. (TERR_21.EXE)
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- To install the software
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- a) Copy the file TERR_21.EXE to the Drive and Directory you wish to use
- for the installation.
- b) Execute the file TERR_21.EXE.
- c) You will be prompted with a Copyright screen and the option to proceed
- to install the program files.
- d) The program will then de-archive the files
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- TERRACE.EXE - the Windows Executable file.
- TERRACE.HLP - the Windows Style Help file
- TERRACE.TXT - this short documentation file.
- DECK_???.BMP - a set of Bitmap files containing the Deck designs
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- You may include the TERRACE.EXE file in Windows Program Manager or double
- click on its filename in File Manager to launch the program.
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- Once you have run the program and selected from the user definable options
- a further file
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- TERRACE.INI
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- will be found in the Directory containing your Windows Files. Should you
- wish to remove 'Terrace' from your system at a future date then this file
- may be deleted.
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- Unless registered with the author the program will remind you periodically
- that the 'Good Guys' register their Shareware Programs.
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- 4. Other Products
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- At the time of writing I can offer for following programs for use with
- Microsoft Windows -
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- 13OUT V3.0 - Single pack patience game.
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- WINLHA V1.1 - Fully featured Windows Based Driver for the Dos LHA Archive
- Program from Yoshi (LZH archive files). FREEWARE.
- Shrink all thoses lesser used files... and think of the space
- you can save.
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- DOCARC V1.4 - Data file archiving program, allowing the data file to be
- archived and de-archived and automatically launching the
- files application. (Try it and see).
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- CARLTON V2.0 Double pack patience game.
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- 4ACES V1.0 Single pack patience game.
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- JACKPOT V1.1 Four Reel Fruit Machine Program
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- PMPlus V1.4 Enhances the Program Manager by allowing you to
- nest one Program Group inside another. Adds depth
- to your workspace.
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- TMPlus V1.2 Windows Task Manager replacement. Includes all the
- functionality of the original and adds a user definable
- menu system to launch your programs as well as a Browse
- and Run facility to access your less used programs.
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- For Programmers - if you are a programmer and use Turbo Pascal for Windows
- then I am also willing to sell a couple of Turbo Pascal Units (TPU files)
- which implement all the hard work in the card games 13 Out, Carlton and
- Terrace. All you need to add is the framework of the game plus the logic
- to implement its rules. Give me a ring for more details.
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- Philip B. Cook
- January 1994
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- Mr. P.B. Cook
- 7 Deaf Hill Terrace,
- Trimdon Station,
- County Durham
- ENGLAND TS29 6BZ
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- Tel +44 429 880319 / +44 642 485395
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- Update Information
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- V1.0 31 May 1992 First Release version of Terrace
- Reported Bugs
- 1. RH Mouse Hints not functioning properly in a
- number of ways.
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- V1.1 21 June 1992 Bugs in V1.0 fixed.
- Reported Bugs
- 2. Problems with Hercules Display Driver using
- patterns to represent colours.
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- V1.2 10 August 1992 - Bug in V1.1(2) fixed. Hercules screens now use
- white background (like Solitaire).
- - Recompiled with TPW V1.5.
- - Redesigned a smaller size card deck to fit the
- screens better.
- - added INI setting to change the background colour.
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- V1.3 14 August 1992 Incorporated new Stack Drawing Code.
- No changes in functionality over V1.2.
- Reported Bugs
- 3. Changing the Dragging Mode caused an extra set
- of cards to be dealt to the Terrace.
- 4. Fatal error (produced by nul selector - very rare)
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- V1.4 11 October 1992 Fixed V1.3 Bug 3.
- Added Windows Help File system.
- 4. Fatal error (produced by nul selector - very rare)
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- V1.5 25 Nov 1992 Fixed V1.3/4 Bug 4.
- Modified Help File
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- V2.0 1 June 1993 Added dialog to select the Card Displacement.
- Added automatic length adjustment of card sequences
- in the Tableau.
- Added selection of external card decks from bmp files.
- Supplied 24 External Decks (same designs as V1.5).
- Reported Bugs :
- 5. Three of the variants did not display the base
- card letter/number on the backcloth to assist
- play.
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- V2.1 31 January 1994 Fixed V2.0 Bug 5.
- Incorporated new Registration and About code.
- No change in the card games.
- 31 July 1994 Removed references to 4 Aces in the error dialogs
- associated with loading Card Decks.