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- Release Notes: Solitaire 128/80 v1.0
- August 1992
-
- Summer means different things to different people. To me, summer means, among
- other things, going home-- away from my friends, and almost as important, away
- from my friends' computers. Last summer I came home and realized that I was
- stuck in Worcester without a machine that can run Windows Solitaire. It was
- just me and my 128-- no PC to run Windows or Ensemble. I looked around
- on local BBSs to see if I could dig up a suitable version of Solitaire to
- run on my 128. The one I found ran in 40 columns and was too painfully slow
- to be playable. Hence, Solitaire-80 was born.
-
- Solitaire 80 is User-Supported Software. The program is copyright (c) 1992 by
- the author. You are granted permission to copy, upload, and otherwise
- distribute the software, but only in its original archive format. The program
- may not be distributed in any other form without prior written consent of
- the author. If you find Solitaire-80 entertaining, you are encouraged to
- send in a contribution to help justify further development effort. A donation
- of $5-$10 seems appropriate, but the amount is left up to you. If you'd prefer
- not to send a donation, I'd still appreciate a card with your comments. Send
- your comments and donations to Aaron Peromsik, 28 Hadwen Rd., Worcester, MA
- 01602.
-
- The mouse driver in SOLITAIRE 80 is based on the mouse drivers that come on
- the 1351 Test/Demo disk. I'm not sure if I changed them enough to call them
- my own, so portions of this program may be Copyright (c) 1986 by Commodore
- Business Machines.
-
- Solitaire-80 Features:
-
- * Runs on the 128 in 80-column Fast mode
-
- * Keyboard commands allow access for people without a mouse
-
- * Full support for a 1351 in port 1
-
- * Main program in BASIC 7, but many key routines are ML to keep things
- quick so gameplay doesn't become tedious
-
- * Smart card placement tries to put cards where you meant to, not necessarily
- where you said to. If you drop a bunch of cards halfway between two piles,
- Solitaire-80 checks both piles for a legal move, and if it finds one it
- assumes that's the one you meant.
-
- Possible Upgrades for Future Versions:
-
- * Some kind of fanfare on the rare occasions when somebody wins.
-
- * Clean up mouse handling. Currently, at least on 128s with old VDC's (like
- mine) the pointer occasionally leaves some garbage in its wake. I haven't
- tried this on a newer 128 to see if this is a VDC-related problem. Moving
- a stack of cards near the right edge of the screen is also handled messily,
- but that doesn't have any lasting effect on the screen display. Future versions
- should have cleaner mouse mode handling, but the game is still quite playable
- in its current form.
-
- * Add code to disable the mouse IRQ wedge for cleaner exit.
-
- * Your suggestions here!
-
- Send your comments and suggestions to the author at the address above.
- I'll try to answer all mail eventually, but I get slow during the academic
- year. A SASE is likely to speed things up.
-
- Aaron Peromsik
-
- August 1992
-