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- ___ Gegs version 1.0 Evaluator __________________________
-
- Gegs takes a common word or phrase and scrambles the letters...hardly
- a new idea. But Gegs has plenty of new angles:
-
- - Look: Calculator metaphor puts everything at your mouse tip.
-
- - Games: Six puzzle categories and over 3,800 individual word/
- phrase puzzles.
-
- - Options: De-vowel, Wild Card, and Hangman game modifiers make
- for even more addictive aggravation.
-
- - Scoring: Gegs tracks your starts, wins, and scores. A detailed
- stats report is always available.
-
- - Online Help: Illustrated WinHelp system with screen shots and full
- instructions to get you up and running quickly and easily.
-
- Gegs requires VGA or higher resolution and prefers a mouse or other
- pointing device to run.
-
-
- ___ Installation ____________________________________________
- Here's how to install King's Casino Solitaire from the archive:
-
- 1) Un-Zip KCSol2.zip. You've already performed this step to be
- reading this file.
-
- 2) Copy all files into your favourite games directory or create a
- new directory for it.
-
- 3) Drag gegs.exe from File Manager into the Windows group of your
- choice in Program Manager (or your other favourite Windows Shell).
- (Alternatively, you could run Gegs by selecting File/Run from the
- menu in Program Manager or File Manager and typing in the path to
- gegs.exe and its name.)
-
- Gegs does not modify your Win.ini, your System.ini, your AutoExec.bat
- or your Config.sys. Just delete the following few files and it's gone:
-
-
- ___ Files Supplied __________________________________________
-
- - Files installed in the directory you specified -
- - gegs.exe the Gegs program file
- - gegs.dat encrypted data file needed by Gegs to run
- - gegs.hlp Windows help file
- - gegs.ini configuration file updated by program
- - gegsread.txt this file (not necessary to run program)
- - gegorder.txt order form (not necessary to run program)
- - file_id.diz description for BBS and on-line systems
- (not necessary to run program)
-
-
- ___ Getting Started ___________________________________________
- If you start up the game and click a few buttons. I think you'll be
- an old pro in a very short time. However, all features are fully
- documented from Help/Contents or by pressing F1.
-
- To get started:
-
- 1) Make sure the word Standard appears in the second upper
- left black window
-
- 2) Click on the [5 Letter] button
-
- 3) Click on the single letter buttons which appear on the first
- row in the correct order to unscramble the scrambled five
- letter word.
-
-
- ___ Accessibility ____________________________________________
- This program uses Windows and may be inaccessible to anyone with
- visual impairment. You will find a speech-friendly version of Gegs
- and much more in the archive VIP611.zip available in the Disabilities
- forum on CompuServe, BlinkLink, PC-Ohio, CRS and many other fine
- BBSs.
-
- I have no experience in programming for motor disabilities. I
- believe everything in this program is accessible via single mouse
- clicks and very occasional mouse drags. Don't forget that you can
-
- - Click on the [Got It!] button (green check mark) instead of the
- individual letter buttons to enter your solution.
-
- - use Escape to clear a wrong entry.
-
- - use the right mouse button to pop up the Games menu or Pile Info.
-
- If you can think of any changes to improve this program's accessi-
- bility, please let me know.
-
- Anyone with a disability and limited financial resources may acquire
- the fully functional version of Gegs for the reduced price of $3.50
- by including a photocopy of any legal document confirming the disability.
-
-
- ___ About Gegs.dat _______________________________________
- The words and phrases used as puzzles by Gegs are stored in Gegs.dat.
- This file is encrypted, not to protect any great programmer's secrets,
- but to help you resist peeking. It contains about 600 words or phrases
- in each of the puzzle categories: 5 Letter, 6 Letter, etc. I had
- compiled about 200 in each category with great and painful labour.
- Fortunately for you and me, Kelley Schroedl of North Carolina took
- mercy on us and whipped off another 400 or so in each category.
-
-
- ___ About Gegs.exe _______________________________________
- Gegs has gone through three iterations so far: a DOS version done in
- C with a speech-accessible interface, an Windows version in C, and
- finally this version for Windows, totally re-written in Delphi Pascal.
- Yes Gegs.exe is fat, but it has some awesome error-handling under the
- hood (not to mention OOP hand-holding to make errors less likely).
- Delphi even traps GPFs!
-
- Happy computing and thanks for trying Gegs,
-
- Dale Cotton
- CompuServe 73632,703
- (Internet 73632.703@Compuserve.com)