ZCheck v0.3
Copyright (c) 1993 George McBay
All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS:

I.    Requirements      (What you need to play ZCheck) 
II.   Legal             (Legal issues regarding ZCheck)
III.  Supportware       (What is Supportware? Why was ZCheck released under Supportware?)
IV.   Changes           (Changes from v0.1)
V.    Future            (What the future might bring)
VI.   Game Instructions (How to play the game)

I. "Requirements"

	ZCheck v0.3 requires a Commodore-Amiga computer 
running WorkBench v2.04 or higher and two human players. 
(In the future a computer-play option may be available
depending upon support} of this program.)  

II. "Legal"

	ZCheck v0.3 is Copyright (© 1993) by George McBay.

	ZCheck v0.3 is provided AS-IS.  I make no guarantees 
regarding this program. I am not responsible for anything 
that goes wrong due to it's usage.

	This program is mostly freely distributable. It 
cannot, however, be uploaded to services which claim 
copyrights over stored files and may not be included on 
any disk which sells for more than $10.00 (10 US Dollars).

III. "Supportware"

	I am releasing ZCheck under the concept of 
"Supportware."  Because I am not certain the Amiga
community wants a shareware game of checkers, I decided
to program the basics of a checkers game and release it.  
If you would like to support future development of ZCheck, 
I ask that you please send some amount of money (the amount
is totally up to you and what you think the development is
worth to you).  Please don't think I will be offended if 
you send small amounts of money...any amount will help.
And please try your best to support this program, without
your support it is hard for me to justify spending so much
of my free time writing programs such as this.

	If there is enough support for ZCheck, I will 
release future upgrades through the same channels this 
version was released.  You may send Internet Electronic
Mail to the address given below to find out what the 
latest release version of the program is.  We can also
arrange a way of getting the latest release to you 
if you have no other access to it.
 
    To support this program, please send some amount
    of money to:

		George McBay
		97 Conwell Ave.
		Somerville, MA
		02144

	If you want a response regarding your questions 
or comments either include a self-addressed stamped 
envelope or:

	send Internet E-Mail to: gfm@gnu.ai.mit.edu.

IV. "Changes"

	Changes from v0.1 to v0.3 of ZCheck:

	  o The graphics updates are now a lot 
	    less annoying on slower systems.

	  o NonFatal and Fatal Errors now display
	    Amiga System Requesters on the current
	    window to let you know of problems.
	    Previously it would write the problems to
	    stdout creating a console window if none 
            existed.

 	 o Informational text messages appear to let
           the player know about Double Jumps, etc.

	 o Forced-jump is now available in the game.
           You can turn off the Forced jumps via the
           menu system.

	o The colors of the checkers were switched to
          reflect the "dark moves first" rule of
          Checkers.  In the future the colors
	  of the pieces, board and background 
          will all be user-configurable.

V. "Future"

	o A flexible serial connection option allowing 
	  for NULL modems, regular modems and, to a 
          degree, anything driven by a fully-functional 
          serial.device replacement.

	o A Unix based socket connection program allowing
          Internet-play using dnet.device (w/Dnet), 
          uw.device (w/AmigaUW) or the standard serial-device.

	o Multi-level computer opponent

	o User-configurable colors of the pieces, board
	  and background.

	o Better documentation of the game, possibly 
          including standard Checkers rules.

	o Any reasonable supporter-requested enhancements
          and, of course, fixes for reported bugs.

VI. "ZCheck Instructions"

	Currently ZCheck is capable of officating a checkers
game between two human players.  It understands regular 
movements, jumps and double, triple, etc. jumps.  You can 
save games and load them to resume play at another time.

	The Red Player moves first and then turns
alternate between the two players.  A player wins when
the other player cannot make a move due to lack of
checkers or all of the checkers being trapped.

	To move a piece, the current player
must point to the piece with the mouse pointer.
Pressing the left-mouse-button allows the player
to "pick up" the piece.  The piece can then be dragged
to another square and the left-mouse-button may
be released to drop the piece.