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- Spades The Card Game
- Version 2.7
-
- 1) Introduction
- 2) Installation
- 3) File Description
- 4) What's New/Upgrade
- 5) Comments
-
-
-
- Introduction
-
- Spades has always been one of my favorite card games, and , in my opinion,
- I'm a pretty good player. I did my best to instill my knowledge of the
- game into this program so that it will be challenging. You, of course,
- will be the final judge of how well I did.
-
- Spades is Shareware. Feel free to pass the shareware evaluation version
- (SPADE2.ZIP) along to anybody you see fit, or upload it to any BBS you
- want. All I ask is that you pass the ZIP file along with out altering its
- contents in any way.
-
- The registration price is $19.95 plus S/H. There are three ways to register:
-
- 1) Cash, Check or Money Order
- When the program first starts click on the Cash Order
- button and fill out and print the order form. Mail the
- order form and the amount due in the form of Cash, Check
- or Money order to:
-
- Greg DeBacker
- 638 San Jaun Av
- Santa Cruz, CA
- 95065
-
- Send U.S. dollars or checks drawn on U.S. banks only.
-
- 2) CompuServe's Shareware Registrstion Forum
- If you are a member of CompuServe you can use their
- Shareware Registration forum to register the software.
- GO SWREG to get to the forum. Once there follow the on
- screen instructions. Use ID# 6808
-
- 3) Credit Card Orders
- You can order with MC, Visa, Amex, or Discover from
- Public (software) Library by calling 800-242-4PsL(4775)
- or 713-524-6394. Order by FAX to 713-524-6398. You can also
- mail credit card orders to PsL at P.O.Box 35705, Houston,
- TX 77235-5705.
-
- Order Product Number 14698
-
- THE ABOVE NUMBERS ARE FOR CREDIT CARD ORDERS ONLY. THE
- AUTHOR OF THIS PROGRAM CANNOT BE REACHED AT THESE NUMBERS.
-
- Any questions about the status of the shipment of the order,
- refunds, registration options, product details, technical
- support, volume discounts, dealer pricing, site licenses,
- non-credit card orders, etc, must be directed to:
-
- Greg DeBacker
- 638 San Jaun Av
- Santa Cruz, CA
- 95065
- Internet: 71042.36@compuserve.com
-
- To insure that you get the latest version, PsL will
- notify me the day of your order and I will ship the
- product directly to you.
-
- See the Q & A section in the help file for the above registration
- informtaion along with the benifits of registering.
-
-
- Installation
-
- Aside from the ZIP file SPADE2.ZIP you will need one other file to
- successfully install and run Spades. You will need:
-
- VBRUN300.DLL
-
- VBRUN300.DLL is the run-time module needed to run all programs written in
- the language Visual Basic. VBRUN300.DLL can be found on all on-line
- services. It is usually stored as VBRUN3.ZIP. You can also get it from my
- web page (See below for the URL). After logging on to my homepage go to
- the "What You Need" section. Once you have VBRUN300.DLL put this file in
- your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
-
- Installing Spades is pretty easy.
-
- Windows 3.1
- If you have the files on a disk in drive
- A: you would select Run from the File menu of the
- Program Manager and then type in A:\setup and hit
- the Enter key.
-
- If the files are in a directory on your hard drive
- you can Double-Click on the SETUP.EXE file from the
- File Manager.
-
- Windows 95
- If you have the files on a disk in drive
- A: you would select Run from the Start menu of the
- Windows 95 Task Bar and then type in A:\setup and hit
- the Enter key.
-
- If the files are in a directory on your hard drive
- you can Right-Click (click the right mouse button)
- on the SETUP.EXE file from the Explorer and then select
- Open from the menu that appears.
-
- File Description
- Below is a list of the files that are in the archive file
- SPADE2.ZIP. The files that end in an underscore (_) are in a
- compressed state and can not be used until they are
- uncompressed by the setup program.
-
- SETUP.EXE Setup initialization (Run this to set up program)
- SETUP.LST Used by setup program
- SETUP1.EX_ The set up program.
- SPADES.EX_ The executable Spades card game
- SPADES.HL_ Spades Help file
- FILE_ID.DIZ File identification file
- README.TXT This readme file
- BUZZ.WA_ WAV file used in game
- APPLAUSE.WA_ WAV file used in game
- BOING.WA_ WAV file used in game
- DRIP.WA_ WAV file used in game
- RATCHPOP.WA_ WAV file used in game
- GLASSBRK.WA_ WAV file used in game
- SETUPKIT.DL_ Used by setup
- VER.DL_ Used by setup
-
- What's New
-
- Version 2.4
- Added Custom scoring.
- Added trick over penalty option.
- Added no-pass on Nil option.
- Cosmedic changes.
- Version 2.5
- Not released.
- Version 2.6
- Improved card and suit selection routines.
- Improved Nil bidding.
- Improved animation.
- Four new card backs.
- Changed jokers from second played in a trick wins to a High
- Joker and a Low Joker.
- Cosmedic improvments.
- Suggest button is available at all times.
- Version 2.6a
- Fixes the occasional "Subscript out of range error"
- Version 2.6b
- Fixes problem of no card selected by a player going nil who
- has already taken a trick. This would throw their card count off
- and set a faulty suit.
- Version 2.7
- Finally fixed the errors that were supposed to be fixed
- in version 2.6b. Also fixed the bug where a player bidding
- nil would sometimes pass two of the same cards to his/her
- partner. This error always ended up with two kings of the
- same suit being passed. These bugs were actually all
- inter-related and embarrassingly simple to fix. It was
- just a matter of me staring at the screen long enough.
-
-
- To upgrade the registered version follow these steps:
- 1) Make a backup copy of the distribution disk
- 2) Copy this readme.txt file and the file SPADE.EX_ onto
- the distribution disk overwriting the existing files
- on the disk.
- 3) Insert the distribution disk into the floppy drive and
- run the Setup program to install the upgrade.
-
- Comments
-
- Any comments, suggestions, money, or critiques can be sent to me at one of
- the following addresses:
-
- CompuServe - 71042,36
-
- InterNet - 71042.36@compuserve.com
-
- World Wide Web - http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gregdebacker
-
- U.S. Mail - Greg DeBacker
- 638 San Juan Av.
- Santa Cruz, CA
- 95065
-
- Thank you and enjoy,
-
- Greg
-
- P.S.
-
- Be sure to visit my homepage on the WWW for other shareware games and
- utilities.