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___ King's Casino Solitaire Evaluator __________________________
Release 2.0 is a major update providing five new games and a multi-
tude of new features. Here are some highlights:
- New Games: Bristol, Eight Off, Penguin, Pyramid, and Tournament.
King's Casino now has 22 games!
- New Look: King's Casino now supports background pictures to add
colour and pizazz to the otherwise plain playing
surface of the program's main window.
- New Look: When you win, the winner's dialog box will randomly
display one of many different pictures, rather than
the same one each time.
- New Look: You can add your own background and winner pictures and
select which background picture and card back to use
or have the program change them for you randomly.
- New Feature: Illustrated WinHelp system with screen shots of each
game and play examples to get you started on new games
quickly and easily.
- New Feature: Pile Info: right-click on any card pile for a pop-up
all-you-need-to-know report on how to play to and from
that pile. Learn new games simply by exploring the
screen.
- New Feature: Auto Finish (on the Actions Menu) saves wear and tear
on your mouse. When you get close enough to the end of
a game that a win is certain, click on Auto Finish to
automatically play the final cards to foundations.
- New Feature: You can now assign double-click instead of single-click
to King's Casino's default card moves feature. This
prevents those unexpected card jumps when you move a
card aside to see what's under it.
King's Casino Solitaire requires VGA or higher resolution and a mouse
or other pointing device to run: this release does not provide keyboard
support.
The current maintenance release, 2.06, provides an installation program,
bug fixes, and a MS Write version of the game instructions suitable for
printing.
___ Installation ____________________________________________
You also need the file VBRun300.dll in your Windows System directory
in order to run this program and its Setup. VBRun300.dll is big and
most everybody already has it, so I haven't added it to the archive.
If you don't have it, you can download it from almost any BBS, and
use it with hundreds of other nifty Windows shareware programs also
on your favourite BBS.
[NOTE!: if you are installing version 2.06 ON TOP OF (in the same dir-
ectory as) any other version 2 of King's Casino Solitaire you will
lose your scores and preferences unless you take the following steps:
1) Rename your current KCSol.ini file to KCSol.xxx.
2) Follow the regular installation steps, below.
3) Delete the new (empty) file KCSol.ini.
4) Rename your old KCSol.xxx back to KCSol.ini.]
Experienced Windows users will need no help installing King's Casino
via the provided Setup.exe program. If you are unsure, follow these
steps:
1) Un-Zip KCSol2.zip into some temporary directory. You've already
performed this step to be reading this file. You can simply run
King's Casino from there but that's cheating!
2) Execute the program Setup.exe, either by double-clicking on it in
File Manager or by entering its path and name in the File/Run menu
option of Program or File Manager. For example: c:\temp\setup.exe.
Setup will start by confirming that it knows the name of the
temporary directory from step 1) above. Next, it will prompt you
for the name of a directory to install the program to. (We'll
presume for the rest of this discussion that you accept the
default, c:\kcsol2.)
3) Next, Setup asks whether you want it to automatically create a
Program Manager group for the King's Casino program and its
documentation files. (If you choose not to, see step 5.)
4) Finally, Setup will determine whether you are currently running
in VGA or an SVGA video mode and ask whether you want background
images (see More on Background Pictures below) for your current
video mode only or for both.
5) If you did not let Setup create a separate Program Manager
group for King's Casino, then drag KCSol.exe from File Manager into
the Windows group of your choice in Program Manager (or your other
favourite Windows Shell). (Alternatively, you can run King's Casino
by selecting File/Run from the menu in Program Manager or File
Manager and typing in the path to KCSol.exe and its name.)
6) You may now delete the un-zipped KCSol2.zip files from the
temporary directory referred to in step 1) above.
7) Optionally, you can create a sub-directory of KCSOL2 called
something like GAMES. Unzip the archive KCSWins2.zip in KCSOL2 into
this sub-directory.
King's Casino Solitaire does not modify your Win.ini, your System.ini,
your AutoExec.bat or your Config.sys.
___ Files Supplied __________________________________________
- Files installed in the directory you specified -
- KCSol.exe the King's Casino program file
- KCSol.hlp Windows help file
- KCSol.ini configuration file updated by program
- QCardX.dll playing cards library
- KWCrown.bmp a bitmap image used when you win a game
- KWDragn1.bmp ditto
- KWDragn2.bmp ditto
- KWDuocrn.bmp ditto
- KWUnicrn.bmp ditto
- KB6/8Fleur.bmp a bitmap image used as a background
- KB6/8Grifn.bmp ditto
- KB6/8Links.bmp ditto
- KB6/8Lions.bmp ditto
- KB6/8Ucorn.bmp ditto
- KB1Celt.bmp background bitmap good for most video modes
- KB1Celt2.bmp ditto
- KCReadMe.txt this file (not necessary to run program)
- KC_Order.txt order form (not necessary to run program)
- KCSWins2.zip an archive of winnable games (see below)
- KCSRules.wri a MS Write version of game rules
- Files you may already have in your Windows System directory -
- MSAFinx.dll (potentially used by other Windows programs)
- CmDialog.vbx ditto
- CommDlg.dll ditto
- Ver.dll ditto
___ To Un-install ____________________________________________
To remove King's Casino Solitaire from your system simply delete the
files listed in the first group, above. If you added an icon for King's
Casino Solitaire to some other group, highlight the icon by clicking
once on it (then again if necessary to get rid of its pop-up menu),
then press Delete.
(The files listed in the second group above (MSAFinx.dll, etc.) may
also have been installed by King's Casino. More likely, however, they
were already present in your Windows System directory. Either way they
take little space and it's not wise to delete them.)
___ Getting Started ___________________________________________
King's Casino Solitaire uses standard Window's menu commands and
should require no effort to use or understand for anyone familiar
with other Windows programs. Each of the twenty and two different
solitaire card games you can start from Games on the main menu has
instructions you can access from the Help/Game Rules menu or by
pressing F1 when the game is on-screen. All other features are
documented from Help/Contents or by pressing F1 with a specific
program feature selected. For example, if you are using the Visuals
dialog box to change background images, pressing F1 will bring up
the appropriate help topic.
Alternatively, once you start a game you can right-click on the
various card piles to learn what each pile is for and how to move
cards to and from it.
For those of you who find it easier to have a printed copy of the
game rules at hand, the file KCSRules.wri has been provided in Windows
Write format. Just load it into the MS Write applet and choose print
from the file menu. Thanks to Carol Kaplan for suggesting this.
___ Accessibility ____________________________________________
This program is, unfortunately, inaccessible to anyone with visual
impairment. You will find a speech-fri