If you are familiar with the old Card Table 1.0 game, this one has the same games (for the most part) and plays about the same. Included are: Solitaire (just like the old standard), Double Solitaire (Not many people I've met have played this before, but I've managed to get several people hooked on it. It's very hard to win, but I have won once!), and a simplified version of Solitaire called Easy Solitaire (strangely enough!). The only difference between Solitaire and Easy Solitaire is that any card or pile may be moved to any empty pile.
Now for the real differences. 2.0 has it's games stored separate from the main program. Just put them all in a folder of your choosing (they come in a folder called "Games ƒ" initially. When 2.0 starts up, it asks for you to direct it to the folder in which the games are stored. It loads the names of all the games of the correct Creator and Type into the "Games" menu. You select the game you wish to play, and then select "New" from the "File" Menu. Another new option is the preferences option in the File Menu. From here you can see the name of the folder you have picked for a game folder, the pattern used for the card backs, and the amount of shuffling done by the game. As a side note, the color patterns are stored in the 'ppat' resorce in the main game. You may add any number of your own patterns, within reason, so long as they are numbered greater than 127.
The idea here is that, first, you only have the rules for one game in memory at a time, so the game needs less room to run. Second, if you don't like Double Solitaire, or Easy Solitaire, you don't have to keep them. And third, I can develop new games for it at any time, upload them, and you only have to download the new game, not a new version of the entire program!
Of course the other benefit of this is I can give the Libraries and instructions to other interested people, and let them develop card games for Card Table 2.0!!! I particularly like this last idea, as it allows me more free time if I don't feel obliged to continuously create new card games. The only down side of the whole set up is that you have to have Think C 6.0 to use the Libraries, Header files and such.
Once again, Card Table 2.0 will be free-ware, though I'd like to hear from you if you like it. I'm not sure what to do with the game building kit yet. The documentation is not as complete as it should be at the moment, so I won't go public with it (upload it I mean) yet. I would be willing to give it out free, if anyone is interested, to get some feedback on what it needs to round it out.
Please send any and all comments (good or bad, but especially good!) to me on America Online (my signon ID is "Theisen"), or at my current place of residence:
Anthony Theisen
11106 Seward Plz #1808
Omaha, Ne 68154
Above all, play, relax, have fun!
P.S. Special thanx to Rob Koch, who helped me with the newest features of Card Table 2.0. If you have the oportunity to pick up one of his games, do! They're top notch!
