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- KISMET v1.1a
-
- Ashamed as I am to admit it, I'd become addicted to a Windoze program.
- It was a PD game that I FTPed some time ago, and it was called -- can
- you guess -- Kismet. Well, I couldn't stand to have to use "The Evil
- OS" just to play this one game, so I decided that as my first complete
- programming project for NEXTSTEP, I'd rewrite the darn thing. This is
- the result.
-
- There is no online help for Kismet because the game is really pretty
- simple. It's very much like Yahtzee (tm), but with a twist. The
- faces of each die are different colors. 1 & 6 are yellow, 2 & 5 are
- red, and 3 & 4 are blue. On mono machines, these are actually
- different shades of gray. This allows the addition of some hands that
- weren't in Yahtzee, such as "Two pair same color", "Flush", "Full
- house same color", and so on.
-
- Play is simple. Your hand is shown along the left side of the window.
- You roll by clicking on the button beneath the dice. Then you select
- the dice you want to keep by clicking on them. A white outline marks
- the dice you are keeping. You get three rolls to make the best hand
- you can. Then you have to choose what you want to score the hand as.
- Click on the button next to your choice from the list on the right.
- "Info>Reference Card..." brings up a panel showing you how the various
- options are scored. If you accidentally choose the wrong scoring
- option, you can undo that particular score. Note that you CANNOT undo
- any given roll, just a scoring selection. Try to get as high a score
- as possible by carefully choosing the dice to roll and which option to
- score. The top eight high scores are recorded.
-
- This app is compiled FAT for m68k/i386/hp-pa, so you'll need NS v3.x.
- The game itself has undergone severe play testing in our household, so
- most of the bugs should be gone. Still, you can never guarantee that
- all of them are fixed, so let me know if you find a problem.
-
- Changes in 1.1a
- - Nothing, really. Just released Triple Fat with source code.
- (Thanks to Erik Kay at NeXT for the HP-PA compilation!)
- Changes in 1.1
- - Fixed a bug that allowed players to select dice from the previous
- hand before they rerolled, a great cheating tool.
- - Included descriptions of a Yarborough and Kismet on the Reference
- Card.
-
- Hope you enjoy the game!!!
-
-
- Joe Reiss
- jreiss@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
-