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- SUPER NIM Version 1.0
- Copyright 1992 by Stanton Computing
- All Rights Reserved
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- About Super Nim:
- Super Nim is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge
- to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your
- friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of
- another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to
- provide personal computer users with quality software without
- high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to
- continue to develop new products. If you enjoyed this program
- please register your copy by sending $10 to:
-
- Stanton Computing
- 19425-B Soledad Canyon Rd, Suite 173
- Canyon Country, CA 91351
-
- (805) 251-2383
- CIS 71240,1023
-
- Your registration fee will license one copy for use on any one
- computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like
- a book. An example is that this software may be used by any
- number of people and may be freely moved from one computer
- location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it
- being used at one location while it's being used at another.
- Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the
- same time.
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-
-
- Background:
- The game of Nim is one of the oldest two person games known to man.
- The current name was coined from an archaic english verb meaning to steal,
- to take away. Nim is beleived to have its origin in China although variations
- are found the world over.
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- How to start:
- First make a backup of this disk. Then if you have a hard drive copy
- this disk to your hard drive. For example if the original files are in drive
- A:, and you want to copy them to your hard drive into a directory called
- games you would type the following at the DOS prompt:
-
- COPY A:*.* C:\GAMES
-
- Now type NIM.
-
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- What's the object:
- To win you must remove the last piece from the board before the
- computer. The only catch is that you can only remove pieces of a single
- color per turn. Play alternates until there is a winner.
-
-
- How to play:
- Use the left and rigt arrow keys to select the color you want to
- remove. Use the up and down arrow keys to select how many pieces you want to
- remove. Press the enter key when you are ready. The color and number of
- pieces you selected will be removed from the board. Then the computer moves.
- Play alternates until there are no pieces left. The player to remove the last
- piece wins. If you win the difficulty of the computer increses by a factor of
- 6. If you lose the difficulty decreases. Winning six in row is quite an
- accomplishment without the aid of a calculator. If you need directions press
- [F1]. If you want to turn the sound on or off press the key combination
- [Alt]-[S].
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- To quit:
- To quit a game simply press the [Esc] key.
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