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- EUCHRE card game from SPECIAL K
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- release 2.2 - 1999
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- created by G.M.McKAY
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- COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS:
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- Any 486, pentium or better IBM compatible computer will successfully
- run this game as long as it can run Windows 95 and has over 8 Mb of memory.
- It will use any sound driver that your Windows has fitted (ie. a
- sound card or PC speaker driver). A mouse is preferable (as with all
- Windows activities), but this is not a requirement. It is designed for
- standard Windows screen resolutions, but it can accommodate any resolution.
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- DISTRIBUTION:
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- This copyrighted game is distributed under the SHAREWARE system which
- depends upon your support for on-going development. You are encouraged to
- freely copy and distribute this product unaltered to friends, business
- associates, bulletin boards and user groups. HOWEVER THIS PRODUCT IS NOT
- FREE ! You have an evaluation period of two weeks. If you decide you do
- not like the game, simply pass the disk along to someone else. If you are
- still using "EUCHRE from SPECIAL K" after two weeks of evaluation, you are
- obligated to send a minimum payment of $28. If the future of low-cost
- quality software is to continue, we all must support this concept. If you
- cheat on this payment may you be constantly finessed.
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- When you register, you get lots of goodies, as well as that warm
- feeling that only comes from the knowledge that you are more saintly than the
- scum around you. Read the help file to find out about all the goodies.
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- If you registered a previous version that gave you life time
- registrations (like this one does), simply setup this Shareware program on
- top of the previous one (ie into the same directory). It will become
- registered.
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- INSTALLATION:
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- Euchre is distributed in a form which makes installation easy for you.
- Like all Windows programs, its installation is more complex than DOS
- programs, but the SETUP.EXE utility takes care of all this for you. This
- way, it can ensure that you have the correct Windows System files that it
- needs to run properly, without you having to do any work.
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- After installation, you should have these files in the
- \Program Files\Euchre From Special K directory -
- EUCHRE.EXE - base program
- EUCHRE.HLP - Windows help file
- EUCHRE.TXT - ASCII text help file
- REGO.FRM - user registration form
- SCORES.EUC - game scores and set-up info
- GAME.EUC - saved game
- *.CRD - data files.
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- In addition, it will make sure that you have Windows system files in
- your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
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- If you received this software from a Bulletin Board or the Internet, it will be
- compressed into the one file, eg EUCSK22.ZIP. Before running the
- installation program you will need to decompress it. Create a temporary
- directory, eg C:\EUC_TEMP, and decompress all the files into it. The
- software is now ready to install, as if you had bought it on a floppy disk.
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- Now start Windows, and run the SETUP.EXE program. The easiest way of
- doing this is choose RUN from Windows START button, and type in the drive,
- directory, and SETUP.EXE name. Alternatively, you can run it from the File Explorer.
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- The installation program prompts you to enter the directory name in
- which to store the files. The installation program does NOT interfere with
- any of your standard set-up eg, AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, *.INI, path. It
- places the icon to start the EUCHRE game in a group called "Euchre From Special K"
- that it creates in the Programs group on the START button. If you want, you can
- easily move this icon to a different group (by the usual method of dragging
- and dropping).
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- If you created a temporary directory, eg C:\EUC_TEMP, you can now
- remove it.
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- The total space that this program takes up on disk is about 3.8 Mbytes.
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- If you run Euchre and find that it does not fill the whole screen, the
- answer is probably the screen resolution that you have chosen for Windows.
- You can change this via the Display icon in the Control Panel. It works
- best with standard resolutions, such as 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or
- 1280x1024. However it supports most other resolutions. If it does not fill
- the whole screen, you can force it to use another.
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- Windows 95 also lets you uninstall this program (not that you would ever
- want to!).
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- If you have any problems with this program, whether installing
- it, or running it, please let me know. You can contact me on
- gmckay@dezzanet.net.au or Garry.McKay@akzonobel.com.au
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