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Please Note:
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This is the manual on disk that was released with PC-Gammon IV,
PC-Gammon V has a printed bound manual. This disk based manual has
not been updated to reflect changes to PC-Gammon V. It does contain
all pertinent information required to play PC-Gammon and to use
most of the features. Modem Play and Play Style are not documented
here. You can probably figure them out without a manual. When you
register PC-Gammon you will receive the printed manual, etc.
PC-Gammon(tm) V
Release V1.10
9/19/92
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Game Documentation
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Copyright (c) 1992
Sentient Software
All Rights Reserved
Sentient Software
RFD #1, Box 3720
Sheldon, VT 05483
(802) 933-5143 (Voice)
(802) 933-2417 (Data - Black Creek BBS
1200/2400/9600HST
24hrs/7days)
Hardware Requirements:
IBM-PC XT/AT (or compatible)
640K of memory
EGA/VGA or Hercules Graphics Adapter
Installation:
You can either play PC-Gammon from the floppy disk or
copy the contents of the disk to your hard disk.
PC-Gammon requires no special installation. Simply copy or
unzip the files to your hard disk.
PC-Gammon is completely unprotected. It is suggested
that you make a back-up copy of the original.
Running PC-Gammon:
Hard disk users can either change directories to the PCGAMMON
directory or place the PC-Gammon directory in their path and type
the following;
PCGAMMON
Floppy users would place the PC-Gammon disk in their A:
drive and enter the following commands:
A:
PCGAMMON
Additionally PC-Gammon can be invoked with optional
command line parameters, the syntax is:
PCGAMMON p1 p2
The parameters are shown in the table on the following page.
Command Line Parameters:
Parameter Meaning
========= ==================================
E Force EGA Color Mode
M Force EGA Monochrome Mode
H Force Hercules Monochrome Mode
Kfilename Load Keyboard Redefinition File
Video Display Adapter
PC-Gammon will automatically determine the type of video
adapter you have in your computer (EGA or Herc) and set the
graphics mode accordingly. There are circumstances in which
the default video mode is incorrect or undesirable, the most
notable of these are:
1) Some video adapters support both EGA/Herc modes, and
when connected to a monochrome TTL monitor, they will
erroneously report an EGA color monitor is attached.
Use the 'H' command line parameter to force the program
to use the Hercules Graphics Mode.
2) Some users with either Laptops or VGA Paper White monitors,
only really have two colors. In this instance use the 'M'
parameter to force the game into a 640x350 two color mode.
3) Some EGA/VGA cards will not be detected correctly, use the
'E' parameter to force the video mode into 640x350 16 color
mode.
Keyboard Redefinition
The 'Kfilename' parameter allows you to load the game with a
different set of keys to invoke the various menu items and
other commands for keyboard users. The distribution disk
contains a file named "PCGAMMON.KBD", this example file
shows all of the allowable keys that can be redefined.
The format for a keyboard file is:
Cmd#,Char
Where: Cmd# is the command number from 1-21
Char is the character that will be used
Any characters following "Char" will be ignored. Example:
PCGAMMON Kmykeys.kbd
Introduction:
PC-Gammon IV has an easy to use menu system.
At the bottom right portion of the screen you will see the
menu area. To select a menu item, you may either type the first
character of the menu item (i.e. "F" for Forfeit), or click the
mouse cursor on the desired menu item.
Options:
Selecting the Options entry from the main menu will display
the options menu consisting of the following (a detailed
description of the options is at the end of this file) :
Load : Load a previously saved game from disk.
Save : Save the game currently being played.
Score History : Select player/View score history
Print Screen : Provides a graphics or text dump of
the screen to an IBM PC Graphics
printer/HP Laserjet or compatible.
(See command line parameters for
printer selection).
Defaults : Allows you to change options in PC-Gammon.
Tournament : Enable or Disable the computer rolls.
Game Log : Writes a log of all moves to the disk.
Edit Game : Displays the game edit menu (see below).
Main Menu Commands:
Redraw:
If for any reason the board display should become corrupted
the Redraw command will redraw the board for you.
Double:
The Double command is used to double the stakes of the game.
Initially neither player owns the doubling cube, and it's value
is set to 1, it appears in the middle of the board. Either
player may offer to double when the doubling cube is unowned.
As soon as one player offers to double the player who
accepts the double gets possession of the cube and then only that
player may double (the cube changes color to the color of the
player). If either player refuses the double, that player
forfeits the game.
Style:
This option lets you select the playing style PC-Gammon will use.
Styles are: "Conservative", "Aggressive", and "I'm Playing For Bood".
You can change playing style at any time, even in the middle of a
game. PC-Gammon will remember the last playing style selected the
next time it is run.
Backup:
Allows you to backup to the beginning of your move. For instance
if you rolled a 6,1 and you played the six, and then decided you
could have made a better move, use the B command to back-up to
the beginning of your roll. The program also asks you if you are
sure at the end of each move. If you respond negatively, your
move will be backed up.
Forfeit:
If you clearly see you are losing and you don't want to hear
the snide remarks the computer makes when it wins, type the "F"
key and the computer will at its option, either accept you