SMART CARDZ PD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ © 1995 by Paul Morley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INTRODUCTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome to Smart Cardz PD - a NON AGA conversion of Klondike deluxe for all Amiga owners to use. Smart Cardz retains one of the best features of Klondike Deluxe i.e. the ability to load other card sets. DISTRIBUTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The entire risk as to the quality and performance of this program is with you. The author and SHOAH assume no responsibility or liability whatsoever with respect to your use or inability to use this software. The author and SHOAH is not responsible for any loss of data, damages to software or hardware that may result directly or indirectly from the use of this program. The author and/or SHOAH reserve the right to make changes to the software and/or documentation without prior notice. This demo version of Smart Cardz is freely distributable. Klondike Deluxe AGA is copyright Reko Productions. All rights reserved. LOADING SMART CARDZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Boot disk from drive DF0: and double click on the Smart Cardz Icon. Cardz requires 1Mb of memory. INSTALLING TO HARD DRIVE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To install Smart Cardz to your Hard Drive just drag the Smart Cards directory to your hard disk. PLAYING SMART CARDZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Smart Cardz is based around the game of Klondike. For those of you unfamiliar with Klondike a brief explanation of how to play the game follows. When you first play there are seven rows of cards located along the top of the screen. In the first row lies one card, in the second two and so on, until in the last row there are seven. You can only see the front side of the first card in the row. The remainder of the cards are located in the lower left corner of the screen in what is referred to as the stock pile. To play you must place a card of one colour on a card of the other colour, you must also follow in numerical sequence e.g. You can put a red two, on a black three. Cards can be taken from the stock pile or another column. Click on the stock pile to rotate the cards in the stock and obtain a new card on top of the stock. Dependent of the level of play the stock turns with one or three cards. Situated on the lower right of the screen are the four ace places. Here you may place any of the aces, followed by a two, three and so on. Cards placed on the ace places must be of the same suit. Kings may be placed on any empty place in the upper screen. To win the game all cards must be placed in the correct Ace place and the rest of the screen empty. CONTROLS ~~~~~~~~ To move cards you first must select a card by clicking on the left mouse button and then you must click on the destination card with the left mouse button. To automatically move a card to an ace place click on the card with the right mouse button. The card situated next to the ace stacks contains the following buttons: MUSIC toggles music on or off. NEW restart a card game. EASY set game to easy ( turns one card at a time ). HARD set game to hard ( turns 3 cards at a time ). LOAD load a cardz set. QUIT exit game Pressing the space bar will send Smart_cardz to the back of Workbench. Press Left Amiga A to bring Smart Cardz into view again. GENERAL ~~~~~~~ * If you make a wrong card move the source card will be de-selected. * Wrong choices 'Screenflash'. * Loading another Cardz set will restart the game. * It is possible to choose a lower level while playing. If you choose a higher level the game restarts. * On loading Smart Cardz searches for the cardset named "DEFAULT.CDZ", if this cannot be found the program exits. The PD Mix ~~~~~~~~~~ This is the PD version of Smart CardZ, and is therefore a crippled version of the full game. It retains all the features of the full game, but is restricted in that the load option is now more of a preview option. You can load additional cardsets but play time on them is limited. After a certain number of moves a requestor will appear and then the default cardset will be reloaded. OTHER CARDZSETS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Smart Cardz uses MODIFIED Klondike AGA cardsets. These sets are converted from AGA ( very often HAM8 ) images and reduced to 16 colours to retain compatibility with the entire Amiga range. Using dithering techniques quality loss is kept to an absolute minimum. 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It features a great and easy to use interface, Hot/Cold number prediction, Wheel system ( And Wheel editor ) with future wheel disks coming soon, Zodiac prediction and a whole lot more ( Including FULL technical support from the author ). This really is the dogs privates, and just to prove it one lucky user ( Of an OLDER version ) has recently won two grand ! The author himself has won seven times to date ! ( How many times have you even won a tenner ? ). Price - £5.00 "Another lottery predictor ? And they want a fiver for it ? Mind you, how much do you spend on the lottery every week ? You might as well spend a little on some 'help'." "This is a pretty extensive predictor with a variety of methods available..." 80% Amiga Shopper Xmas '95. Smart CardZ - by Paul Morley Don't have AGA ? Or you have AGA but no Hardisk ? I bet you've seen Klondike Deluxe AGA on a mates computer, or read a review ? Why oh why isn't there a version for you ? Well as luck would have it, there is. And it's brilliant ! This uses converted Klondike cardsets ( From 256-->16 colours ) and looks really stunning. There's not much really to say, if you want THE Klondike game for your computer then get this. ( Please note, this is a MAJOR update from the PD version, CardZ, and we all know how good that is ! Also the PD version is no longer supported with cardsets, only this new version. ) Price - £3.99 LightSpeed - By Sublime Software From the authors of the excellent 'Last Lap' comes THE Tron based game. This ISN'T yet another lightcycles clone, this introduces a totally new element to the genre ( Tag ! ), and has a load more features, such as scrolling, split screen two player action, loads of levels and the great presentation that you'd expect from Sublime. Look out for this, you'll cream your pants ! Price - £4.99 ( 2 Disks, Requires at least 1.5Meg ) All SHOAH software ( Both PD and licenceware ) can be obtained from the following companies... SeaSoft Computing Unit 3, Minster Court, Courtwick Lane, Littlehampton, West Sussex. BN17 7RN. Tel: (01903) 850378 Fax: (01903) 733893 Email: seasoft@mag-net.co.uk Please make all cheques or Postal Orders payable to Seasoft Computing. Also, please add 50p for p+p ( UK ). ARROW PD PO BOX 7 DOVER KENT CT15 4AP UNITED KINGDOM On your order please include the following: Your Name Your Address Your Type of Amiga ( e.g. 500, 1200, HD, etc. ) The disk code numbers and titles. All PD disks are 99p each ( Only 85p for members ). Blank disks are 38p each. Mouse mats are £2.99 each. *** FREE MOUSE-MAT WITH ALL ORDERS OVER £12. ( Quote Ref.MM1 ) *** Total postage and packing is 70p on all U.K. orders, and £2.00 for all others. Please send 3 x 1st class stamps or a cheque for 75p for the 2 disk catalogue. Please make cheques and p.o's payable to ARROW PD, thank you. Future PD 64 Stapleford Road, Luton, Beds. LU2 8AY. Tel: (01582) 36157 Please make all cheques or Postal Orders payable to M Wood. Also, please add 50p for p+p ( UK ). Please send 2 x 1st class stamps or 50p for the 2 disk catalogue ( Free with all orders ). Hornesoft PD 23 Stanwell Close, Wincobank, Sheffield. S9 1P2. Tel/Fax: (0114) 296 7825 Mon-Sat 9.30am-7pm Please make all cheques or Postal Orders payable to Hornesoft PD. Please send 3 x 1st class stamps for the catalogue disk, which has details of over 16000 disks. Saddletramps PD 1 Lower Mill Close, Goldthorpe, Rotherham, South Yorkshire. S63 9BY. Tel/Fax: 01709 888127 24hrs Please make all cheques or Postal Orders payable to SaddleTramps PD. Catalogue disk is 50p, or free with your first order. Please note, the above companies are not in any specific order, and they all provide a very good service. CREDITS ~~~~~~~ Reptile set Vex/SHOAH Intro Tune Heatbeat of Rebels Playtesting Caroline and Squize/SHOAH I would like to thank everyone involved with this project. Squize for his help, support, playtesting and all the good ideas, Vex for producing card sets and Caroline for her patience ( bad pun intended ) in playtesting the game. And most importantly thanks to Reko Productions for producing Klondike Deluxe and all the people who produced cardsets for it, without whom this program would not be possible.