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- Pig Version 1.07
- Written February, 2000 by Jim Knopf, aka Jim Button.
- http://home.earthlink.net/~jimknopf/
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- This is Totally free software.
- No cost. No guilt. No support.
-
- SYNOPSIS:
- A simple game of dice against the Palm. Don't get greedy.
-
- To INSTALL:
- Hot-Sync the following files into your Palm Pilot:
- Pig.prc
- PocketC.prc (Only needed if you don't already have it on your Palm Pilot.)
- This is the run-time version. Do NOT put it on if you are a programmer
- who develops using the PocketC compiler.
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- To PLAY:
- It's you against the Palm. There are 10 rounds in the game;
- each round consisting of one turn for each player. Players add the score that they
- attain on each round and the player with the highest score at the end is the winner.
- The player to go first is determined randomly by the Palm before the game starts.
- The turn: You may roll the dice as many times as you wish. The total on your first
- roll becomes the point to AVOID. If you roll that score again before passing, you get
- no points scored for that round. On the other hand, if the total on your dice is
- anything other than the point to avoid, you add the total of the dice to your score
- for that round.
- After each successful roll, you can stop and decide whether to roll again, or keep
- the points already attained, and pass the dice.
- Don't get too greedy. That's why it's called "Pig." But you must be enough of a pig
- to win. The palm plays a fairly good game of Pig. It does NOT cheat.
- Statistics are kept on number of games and number of wins.
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- ONE-HANDED PLAY:
- You can push the Pg-Up button to Roll, push the PG-Down button to pass.
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- SOUNDS:
- Do you want to play Pig in the middle of important meetings?
- You can turn off the sounds by running the Prefs program, picking
- the "general" tab, and turning off all sounds (you can leave
- "Alarm sound" on.) Now you are in stealth mode. If you beat the Palm in
- the middle of an important meeting, you must jump up and squeel like a Pig.
- Shout "Eat slop, bacon boys!"
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-
- HISTORY:
- I adapted this from the game called "Not One", which I first saw in the book
- "More BASIC Computer Games" by David H. Ahl published in 1980. It was evidently called
- "Pig" in its earlier incarnations.
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- Version summary:
- 1.07 4/03/00 Improved indication of dice being rolled.
- 1.06 3/10/00 Improved Palm's intelligence, particularly in round 10.
- Allow Pg-Up to Roll, Pg-Dwn to Pass, for one-handed play
- 1.05 2/21/00 Fixed bug that gave Palm the win on a tie game.
- 1.04 2/12/00 Eliminate annoying dialogue when bust or pass.
- 1.03 2/11/00 Show who rolled first.
- 1.02 2/09/00 Added a MENU, with Statistics, Reset, and Help.
- On (Exit) button, Confirm with user.
- 1.01 2/08/00 Added Best scores for Player and Palm to statistics.
- 1.00 2/06/00 Initial release.
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- Legal:
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- This software is provided as is, with no guarantee of fitness for any particular
- task. The user assumes all responsibility for its use.
-
- You can always download the current version here:
- http://home.earthlink.net/~jimknopf/
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- Please enjoy. Send comments and suggestions to:
- ki7q@arrl.net
-
- -Jim Knopf, aka Jim Button
-