Poker Solitaire 1 2 Q U I C K S T A R T 3 4 5 6 GETTING A QUICK START 7 8 Make sure that the WRITE PROTECT tab on your 9 disk is in the READ/WRITE position. Insert the 10 POKER SOLITAIRE disk in your Amiga when work- 11 bench is requested or insert it, and warm boot and 12 you're off ! Use the mouse to position cards ... 13 Good Luck ! If you need a little more more help please 14 read on ... 15 16 POKER SOLITAIRE runs on any Amiga 17 with Kickstart 1.2 or later and at least 512K of 18 memory. 19 20 POKER SOLITAIRE is designed to take full 21 advantage of the mouse interface so insure that your 22 mouse is installed in the game port on your comput- 23 er. 24 25 BEFORE YOU START WE RECOMMEND THAT 26 YOU MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF POKER SOLI- 27 TAIRE. THE GAME DISK IS NOT COPY PRO- 28 TECTED !! ANY COPY PROGRAM WILL WORK. 29 30 31 MAKE A BACKUP 32 33 Use any copy program or use DISKCOPY pro- 34 vided in your workbench disk. If you need help 35 making a copy please refer to your Amiga manual. 36 Once you have made a copy put the original in a safe 37 place and you are ready to begin. 38 1 1 2 G E T T I N G S T A R T E D 3 4 5 6 Turn on your Amiga and install Kickstart 1.2 7 (this is done automatically on the Amiga 500 and 8 Amiga 2000) like you normally do. When the system 9 requests Workbench, insert POKER SOLITAIRE in 10 the internal disk drive and it will boot automatically. 11 12 If your Amiga is already on, use the warm reboot 13 process to start Poker Solitaire, i.e. Insert the 14 POKER SOLITAIRE disk in your internal drive then 15 press the CTRL key and the left and right Amiga 16 keys all at the same time. Your game will automati- 17 cally startup. 18 19 After several seconds the start-up/credits screen 20 will appear showing game credits. (Strike any key to 21 shorten startup.) A few seconds more and you will 22 be requested to locate and enter a verification key 23 word from your manual (this is it). Sorry about the 24 Keyword requirement but it appears that this is ne- 25 cessary to slow down the pirates. Simply use your 26 manual to look up the requested keyword on the ap- 27 propriate page number, line number and word posi- 28 tion and enter it in the requester on the title screen. 29 Example: Line 21, Page 2, Word 2 is "AND". 30 31 After pressing return the VOICE selection screen 32 will appear offering you a choice of MALE, FE- 33 MALE, or NONE. To select the voice simply move 34 the mouse pointer into the appropriate box and click 35 the left button. Selecting none will reduce the game 36 loading time considerably although game play is en- 37 hanced with male or female voices. You can change 38 the voice any time during the game. 2 1 2 P L A Y I N G T H E G A M E 3 4 5 6 THE OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME 7 8 9 Form the best 5 card stud poker hand in each of 5 10 rows, 5 columns and 2 diagonals for a total of 12 11 hands. Since each hand may be dependent on anoth- 12 er place cards so that you can form good hands in 13 both rows and columns. Hand values are based on 14 standard poker hands, which are covered in detail in 15 a later section of this manual. 16 17 GAME PLAY 18 19 After the game begins a screen appears with a 20 series of rectangles on the left side and the score- 21 board - card deck (in blue) on the right. Play begins 22 by placing the top card from the deck into one of the 23 rectangle on the game board. This is done by posi- 24 tioning the mouse pointer in the desired rectangle 25 and pressing the left mouse button. The card will 26 move from the deck to the selected position. Once 27 played, a card cannot be moved. Continue in this 28 manner placing cards to form the best hands in the 29 rows (horizontal), columns (vertical) and diagonals. 30 31 When all 25 cards are played, the 12 hands are 32 all evaluated automatically. As each hand is evaluat- 33 ed the value (Flush, Full House, etc.) and total 34 points accumulated are displayed on the scoreboard. 35 If you choose a voice the value of the hand will be 36 spoken as well as displayed. For more information 37 on voices see the manual section Voices Menu. Upon 38 completion of the evaluation sequence your high 3 1 game (current) score is shown. If it is among the 2 top ten all time high scores, the High Scores window 3 will appear with a place for you to enter your ini- 4 tials. After you enter your initials, click the small 5 (close window) box in the corner of the screen to 6 record your score (this may take a few seconds) and 7 continue game play. (You can view high scores by 8 selecting the View Scores choice under the Project 9 Menu.) Click the mouse in the Click Here to Contin- 10 ue box in order to begin a new game. 11 12 TWO PLAYER GAME PLAY 13 14 This mode is activated by choosing the PLAYER 15 Menu and selecting the 2 Player option. A check 16 mark will appear when the menu is properly chosen. 17 The 2 player option may be chosen any time a new- 18 hand is started. Once the 2 Player mode is activated 19 the play progresses as follows: 20 21 Player 1 positions his first card on the game 22 board using the mouse as previously described. 23 Upon placing the card, play switches to Player 2 24 who then positions the same card wherever they 25 choose. Play continue in this fashion until all 25 26 cards are played. 27 28 When all 25 cards are played the hands are eval- 29 uated as previously described, first for Player 2 then 30 for Player 1. High scores are recorded if they are 31 better than the top ten and the winning player # is 32 displayed on the screen. Click the mouse in the 33 Click to Continue box to begin a new game. 34 35 TIMED PLAY - Experts Only ! 36 37 This mode is activated by selecting the MODE 38 Menu and choosing "Timed" from the options. In 4 1 the timed mode the objective is to compete against 2 the clock, finishing the game in less than 80 sec- 3 onds. If you finish ahead of the clock you are re- 4 warded with 2 bonus points for every second left on 5 the clock. If you run into overtime your score is 6 penalized 2 points for every second over eighty. 7 8 $$ GAMBLING MODE $$ 9 10 This mode is activated by selecting the MODE 11 Menu and choosing "Gamble" from the options. 12 When this option is selected two betting boxes and 13 the words Bet and Cash appear in the scoring win- 14 dow. To play, place your bet by positioning the 15 mouse pointer in the appropriate betting box and 16 clicking the left mouse button the amount will be 17 shown in the under the word BET in the scoring 18 window. Bet denominations are $25.00 and $50.00. 19 To increase your bet continue to click in the betting 20 boxes until the desired amount is reached. Your 21 bankroll remaining is shown under the word CASH 22 in the scoring window. (You start with $5000). 23 24 After your bet is placed the game is played nor- 25 mally. Winnings are based on total score. In order 26 to win you must reach a minimum of 120 points. 27 The following lists the payoff amounts based on to- 28 tal score. 29 Score Payoff 30 120-129 2 to 1 on points over 120 31 130-139 3 to 1 on points over 129 32 140-149 4 to 1 on points over 139 33 150-159 6 to 1 on points over 149 34 160-169 8 to 1 on points over 159 35 170-179 11 to 1 on points over 169 36 180-189 16 to 1 on points over 179 37 190-199 26 to 1 on points over 189 38 200 41 to 1 on points over 200 5 1 2 M E N U O P T I O N S 3 4 5 6 7 THE PROJECT MENU 8 9 About: Selecting this choice displays the game copy- 10 right information. 11 12 Help: Selecting this choice displays a help screen 13 which gives hints on play, and describes basic play. 14 This screen is available at any time during play. 15 16 Scoring: This selection will display a list of the 17 various point values for each hand. 18 19 View Scores: This selection will display a screen 20 containing the 10 highest game scores. This screen 21 will automatically appear during play when a score 22 higher than previously recorded is made. 23 24 New Hand: This selection will clear the table and re- 25 shuffle the deck to begin a new hand. 26 27 Quit: This selection will return you to the CLI 28 screen. 29 30 SPEED MENU 31 32 Speed selection will affect the evaluation speed of 33 the hands. It will not affect the play of the game. 34 Selections are SLOW, NORMAL, FAST and WARP. 35 SLOW gives you time to study each hand as it is 36 evaluated. NORMAL gives you enough time to take 37 a quick look at the each hand. FAST shorten's the 38 time even more, and WARP is really, really fast! 6 1 PLAYER MENU 2 3 This menu allows you to choose between ONE and 4 TWO player. If a game is started in either one or 5 two player it cannot be changed unless a new hand is 6 dealt. 7 8 MODE MENU 9 10 There are three modes of game play, NORMAL, 11 TIMED, and GAMBLE. The latter two are only 12 available in the one player game. NORMAL is the 13 standard game of Poker Solitaire. 14 15 The TIMED mode selection pits you against the 16 clock. The clock starts at 80 seconds, for every sec- 17 ond remaining after all 25 cards are played you re- 18 ceive 2 points, for every second over 80 you are 19 penalized 2 points. 20 21 The GAMBLE mode selection allows you to use your 22 skill and a little of Lady Luck's help to beat the sys- 23 tem. Who know's Poker Solitaire may be a Casi- 24 no hit someday .. All you have to do is score better 25 than 120 points per game and you're in the Money ! 26 27 VOICES MENU 28 29 This menu selection allows you to choose the voice 30 spoken during hand evaluation. Options include 31 MALE, FEMALE and NONE. This menu choice can 32 be made any time during play of the game. 33 Note: Changing the voice from to MALE or FEMALE 34 will suspend game play for approximately 20-30 sec- 35 onds while the voice loads. This may be a good time 36 for another cup of java, a soda, or a brewski. 37 38 7 1 2 S C O R I N G 3 4 5 6 HAND EVALUATION AND SCORING 7 8 Hands are evaluated based on standard poker 9 rules. The ranking is briefly defined as follows: 10 11 NOTHING: - 2 points 12 13 No combination of cards worth anything. 14 15 ONE PAIR: + 2 points 16 17 Two cards in a hand with the same value in different 18 suites, such as two aces or two 5's. 19 20 TWO PAIR: + 5 points 21 22 Two pair of cards such as, two Jacks and two 5's. 23 24 THREE OF A KIND: + 10 points 25 26 Three of the same type of cards such as, three 5's, 27 three Jack's, or three Ace's. 28 29 STRAIGHT: + 15 points 30 31 Five cards in ascending or descending order. Such as 32 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King. The cards 33 can be in any order on the board as long as they can 34 be arranged in an ascending or descending order. 35 Example: You have a 2, a 6, a 4, a 3, and a 5 in a 36 row across. This is a Straight because the cards can 37 be arranged to form an ascending hand from the 2 to 38 the 6 ! 8 1 FLUSH: + 20 points 2 3 Five cards of the same suit in the same row or col- 4 umn. Such as a 2 of clubs, a 3 of clubs, a Jack of 5 clubs, an Ace of clubs and a 7 of clubs. 6 7 FULL HOUSE: + 25 points 8 9 A pair and three of a kind in the same hand. Exam- 10 ple: 2 Ace's and 3 four's make a full house. 11 12 FOUR OF A KIND: + 50 points 13 14 Four cards of the same value such as four 5's or 15 four Ace's. 16 17 STRAIGHT FLUSH: + 75 points 18 19 Five cards which can be arranged in any order (as- 20 cending or descending) all of which are the same 21 suit. Example: 3 of clubs, 5 of clubs, 7 of clubs, 4 22 of clubs, and 6 of clubs. This is the best hand that 23 you can get !! 24 25 26 G O O D L U C K !! 27 E N J O Y P O K E R S O L I T A I R E !! 28 29 30 31 This documentation booklet is protected by copy- 32 write laws and may not be duplicated, reproduced or 33 electronically transmitted. 34 35 (c) ETHOS Development Company 1989 36 37 Amiga (c), Workbench and KickStart (TM) are 38 trademarks of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. 9 HARD DISK INSTALLATION PROCEDURES Startup your Amiga as you would normally and open a "CLI" screen. Insert POKER SOLITAIRE in your disk drive and type "cd df0:". After the disk is mounted type "install_hd". When all disk activity stops you will have a new directory on your hard drive for Poker Solitaire. In order to play the game simply "cd" to the new Poker Solitaire directory and type "PSOL". 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