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- SOLITAIRE ACCESSORY
-
- This simple desk accessory allows you to play solitaire when
- you get bored doing word processing or whatever. The game board
- is divided into 3 areas; the game area (left half) shows the
- seven stacks of cards used initially, the discard area (right
- center) shows the four discard stacks, the draw stack (lower
- right) shows the stack of cards from which you draw.
-
- Standard solitaire rules apply, the draw stack displays every
- third card, cards are discarded in ascending order (aces first),
- only kings may be moved to an empty column, etc. You win if you
- can put all of the cards onto their appropriate discard piles in
- ascending order. To move cards, move the pointing finger to the
- card(s) you wish to move and click the left mouse button. The
- pointer turns to a flat hand. Move the flat hand to the
- destination and click the left button again. The program will
- understand what should be done: moving from one game column to
- another game column results in the entire card stack (facing up)
- being appended to the destination column; whereas, moving from a
- game column to a discard stack results in moving only the top card
- to the discard stack.
-
- The button at the top left of the window is the QUIT button.
- The button at the top right of the window is the RESTART button;
- this will erase the current game, reshuffle, and start a new game.
- The button at the bottom right of the window is the NEXT button;
- pressing this displays the next available card in the draw pile.
- At the top of the window is the game status, stating how many
- games have been played and how many you have won. The line below
- this is a message board; it states the last card transferred,
- winning messages, or when you have not used any of the available
- cards in the draw pile.
-
- The program was written entirely in OSS Personal Pascal, and
- was my first attempt at writing desk accessories. If you have any
- comments, suggestions, or donations (always welcome!), please send
- them to:
- Thomas A. Elkins
- 967 W. La Alameda Ave.
- San Pedro, CA 90731
-
- If you would like the PPascal source code, please send a disk and
- $5.00 to the above address. Thank you.
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