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- C A N A S T A FROM SPECIAL K SOFTWARE
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- release 2.3 - 2001
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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 required (as with all
- Windows activities). It works best if Windows has a standard
- screen resolution, such as 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or 1280x1024.
- However, it can accommodate any resolution. You should have at least
- 256 colours in your Screen Color Palette.
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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!
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- 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 "Canasta From Special K" after two weeks of evaluation, you are
- obligated to send a minimum payment of $30. 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 fuzzy
- feeling that only comes from the knowledge that you are more saintly than the
- scum around you.
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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. DO NOT delete the previous version.
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- INSTALLATION:
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- CANASTA 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\CANASTA From Special K directory -
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- CANASTA.EXE - base program
- CANASTA.HLP - Windows help file
- CANASTA.TXT - ASCII text help file
- REGO.FRM - user registration form
- SCORES.CAN - game scores and set-up info
- GAME.CAN - 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 CANASTA.ZIP. Before running the
- installation program you will need to decompress it. Create a temporary
- directory, eg C:\MYTEMP, and decompress all the files into it. The software
- is now ready to install, as if you had bought it on a floppy disk. Now 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. If you have Winzip
- installed, you just have to open the .ZIP file and run the SETUP.EXE file.
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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 CANASTA game in a group called
- "Canasta 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:\MYTEMP, 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 CANASTA 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 a particular
- resolution by including on the command line /RESOLUTION500x400. Adjust
- the numbers to make the game suit your screen. The command line is set
- by the 'properties' of the 'Canasta' shortcut.
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- You will never want to do it, but you can delete the program, via
- the 'Add/Remove Programs' icon in the 'Control Panel' (use the 'START'
- button, then 'SETTINGS').
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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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