Patience - a solitaire game for those with plenty of it ======================================================= What is so special about this game of Patience? ----------------------------------------------- - There are six different sets of rules according to which the cards can be laid. - It is possible to `undo' an unlimited number of moves (in the extreme case, all moves back to the beginning of the game). - The current state of the game can be stored and loaded again at a later point - perhaps the came will come out better than. - Suggestions for possible moves can be made if requested. + You can play in a kind of battle solitaire against the computer or against another player (perhaps on a remote host). - If it is already clear that the game will come out, there is no need for tedious marathon clicking; the program will independently distribute all the cards to the piles. - Those who really want to can cheat. - A demonstration (for each set of rules), which gives a rough idea of how the game could be solved, is available. - The cards - a French deck - are displayed on a playing surface of size 640*400 screen pixels, but there are also a few other card fonts available. + One font in Gif format for displaying card with multiple colors exists also. + The whole thing is programmed in Tcl/Tk, so it can be installed on any computer with tcl7.4 and tk4.0 (or tcl7.4 and tk3.6) in about 10 seconds. The installation is described in the Installation Guide (INSTALL-english) and in the manual (manual/pat-english.ps.gz), section 6. - There is a rule editor with which new sets of rules can be compiled (and stored); these new games can then be played in addition to the six games provided. - The program is localized; dependent on a resource there is a german or english user interface. + tkman will be used as browser of the help text, if it is running on the current display. - Detailed documentation in postscript format in separate tar archiv patienceman-1.8.tar.gz. (items marked by + are new in version 1.8) Installation for the impatients ------------------------------- - unpack the tar file in e.g. /usr/lib/X11 - cd patience-1.8 - either: - ./install.tcl - or: - edit the Makefile, check lines 10, 11 and 20 - edit app-default, uncomment line 26 - make install + Complete installation guide in INSTALL-english Have fun, Krischan krischan@cs.tu-berlin.de Christian Krone Varziner Str. 12 D-12161 Berlin