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<P>This is the Read Me file which is included with Solo Deluxe 2.0 in
html format.</P>

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Contents</H2>

<UL>
   <LI><A HREF="#Welcome to Solo Deluxe!
   ">Welcome</A>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#features">Features</A>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#Installing Solo Deluxe">Installing Solo Deluxe</A>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#Decompressing Solo Deluxe
   ">Decompressing Solo Deluxe</A>
   
   <LI>Game rules
   
   <UL>
      <LI><A HREF="#Klondike Rules">Klondike Rules</A>
      
      <LI><A HREF="#Canfield Rules">Canfield Rules</A>
      
      <LI><A HREF="#Pyramid Rules">Pyramid Rules</A>
      
      <LI><A HREF="#Aces Rules">Aces Rules</A>
   </UL>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#Using the small icons">Using the small icons</A>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#The scoring system">The scoring system</A>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#How to improve your luck">How to improve your
   luck</A>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#Removing Solo Deluxe">Removing Solo Deluxe</A>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#Changing your Preferences">Changing your
   Preferences</A>
   
   <UL>
      <LI><A HREF="#Displaying the Welcome screen">Displaying the
      Welcome screen</A>
   </UL>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#History of changes">History of changes</A>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#Feedback">Feedback</A>
   
   <LI><A HREF="#Cheating">Cheating</A>
</UL>

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<H2><A NAME="Welcome to Solo Deluxe!
"></A>Welcome to Solo Deluxe!</H2>

<P>Solo Deluxe is a Newton version of four popular Solitaire games.
With Solo Deluxe, you can play Klondike, Canfield, Pyramid and Aces,
each with different playing options. See the end of this file for
instructions on how to play.</P>

<P>Solo Deluxe is Shareware and costs $15. If you like it and use it,
please send your registration fee to the following address:</P>

<BLOCKQUOTE><ADDRESS>Marcela Seguel</ADDRESS>

<ADDRESS>3421 Aubry</ADDRESS>

<ADDRESS>Longueuil, Qu&eacute;bec</ADDRESS>

<ADDRESS>Canada  J4M 2W4</ADDRESS></BLOCKQUOTE>

<P>I know, Solo Deluxe used to be free, but times change! If you are
using version prior to 2.0, you should still pay the shareware fee,
or perhaps $10 if you like, isn't it worth it?</P>

<P>You can contact me at
<A HREF="mailto:mseguel@scoopnet.ca">mseguel@scoopnet.ca</A> or you
can visit the Solo Deluxe web page at
<A HREF="http://www.scoopnet.ca/solodx">http://www.scoopnet.ca/solodx</A>
</P>

<P>This is version 2.0 and seems stable, but if you find any bugs,
please report them to me. If you have any suggestions on anything,
I'll be more than happy to read them and try to implement them as
well (when time permits and if shareware fees start popping up in my
mail box).</P>

<H2><A NAME="Features"></A>Features:</H2>

<UL>
   <LI>Four different games (with multiple options)
   
   <LI>Many card designs
   
   <LI>Auto Start in your favorite game
   
   <LI>Iconizable
   
   <LI>Fun animation and ending
   
   <LI>Scoring based on how lucky you are
   
   <LI>Statistics (games played/won) 
   
   <LI>and more!
</UL>

<H2><A NAME="Installing Solo Deluxe"></A>Installing Solo Deluxe</H2>

<P>When you install Solo Deluxe on your Newton, You have the option
of installing the Help File (SoloHelpII) and Extra Decks (SoloDecks
and/or SoloDecksTwo) as well. These take up a little more RAM, but
they're worth it! The SoloDecks file (not SoloDecksTwo) also contains
a couple of sounds that are used by the game if they are there.
SoloDecks (not Two) also contains Back designs for the cards. If you
don't install these, you will get the default Card and Back design,
and you will not get the special sounds. You may also install these
packages on an external storage card, even if Solo is in your
Newton's internal storage memory. SoloHelp and SoloDecks do not
appear in the Extras Drawer, but you can remove them the regular way.
</P>

<H2><A NAME="Decompressing Solo Deluxe
"></A>Decompressing Solo Deluxe</H2>

<P>If you are using a Mac, simply decompress the enclosed files with
a Stuffit compatible decompressor. </P>

<P>If you are using a PC, you might need to de-binhex the file first
(depending on where you got it). There is a program called BINHEX
that will do that for you. Then you will need UNSTUFF (make sure you
have the latest version) to unstuff the files. Both of these programs
are available almost everywhere, but if you can't find them let me
know. Once this is done, you'll have all the files you need and you
can then install them (using the Windows Connection Kit).</P>

<H2>Game rules</H2>

<P>You probably know how to play some form of solitaire, and the
specific rules for each game follows this topic, but here are a few
pointers for general operations.</P>

<UL>
   <LI>Tap New Game to select the game you wish to play.
   
   <LI>Tap the deck to get more cards.
   
   <LI>Tap the Lock icon to enable dragging the Deck, Tap again to
   lock it and resume play.
   
   <LI>Tap Restart  to replay the same game, with or without the same
   deck.
   
   <LI>Tap the "i" button for Information and Options
</UL>

<P>&nbsp;</P>

<BLOCKQUOTE><H3><A NAME="Klondike Rules"></A>Klondike Rules</H3>

<P>There are three components to the game: the Deck, the four
Foundations and the seven Columns.</P>

<P>Place cards in descending order and alternating suites ( i.e. 10
of Hearts, 9 of Spades, etc.) down the columns, the King being the
highest value and the only card allowed in an empty column. </P>

<P>Aces can go to the Foundations at the top. You then build the
Foundations in ascending order of the same suite.</P>

<H3><A NAME="Canfield Rules"></A>Canfield Rules</H3>

<P>Canfield is similar to Klondike, except the Foundation card is
selected at random. When you build the Foundations, you start with
the randomly selected value, build up to the King, then you continue
with the Ace, and so on. When building the columns, you go down from
the card which comes just before the Foundation card (it becomes the
highest value card) and build down to the Ace which is then followed
by the King.</P>

<P>This game adds a fourth component: the Stock. Only Cards from the
Stock go to empty columns until it becomes empty, at which time you
can use cards from the Deck to fill these empty columns.</P>

<H3><A NAME="Pyramid Rules"></A>Pyramid Rules</H3>

<P>Pyramid is very simple to play, but very hard to finish (the
reward is good though).  The goal is to combine cards whose values
total 13 i.e. 6 &amp; 7, 8 &amp; 5, single King, etc. Simply tap on
the cards each in turn to select a pair.</P>

<P>You go through the Deck once, one card at a time. When playing the
2 card game, the previously dealt card is fed to a second pile from
which you may also combine cards. This option makes the game somewhat
easierI</P>

<H3><A NAME="Aces Rules"></A>Aces Rules</H3>

<P>Cards are dealt 4 at a time. Remove all the lowest cards of the
same suite by tapping on them. Aces have the highest value.  For
example, if you deal the following cards:</P>

<P>8 (Clubs) 3 (Harts)  10 (Clubs)  4 (Clubs)</P>

<P>You may remove the 4 and 8 of clubs as they are lower than the 10
of clubs.</P>

<P>Either only aces or any card may be played in an empty column (see
prefs).</P>

<P>You must end up with only aces on top, and all cards must be
played. It's even better to end up with only the four aces and no
other cards underneath.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>

<H2><A NAME="Using the small icons"></A>Using the small icons</H2>

<UL>
   <LI>Lock: To lock the Deck's position, otherwise, you can drag it
   around (or the Flip arrow).
   
   <LI>Lightning bolt: To clean up the screen.
   
   <LI>Little Spade: Iconize the game. Tap the button which appears
   in your Notepad to return to a productive game of Solo
   (interrupted by some annoying "real work").
</UL>

<H2><A NAME="The scoring system"></A>The scoring system</H2>

<P>Scoring is based on Luck Points. For every game you play, you lose
a little bit of points, but when you win you get a bunch of points.
The harder the settings, the more points you get. Win twice in a row
and get extra points! Bring your luck to 100% and see what happens!
By the way, the Joker card is good luck too!</P>

<H2><A NAME="How to improve your luck"></A>How to improve your luck
</H2>

<P>Use harder settings and don't cheat.</P>

<P>Hint: flipping 1 card an unlimited number of times is not very
good for your luck.</P>

<P>Using the same deck twice might be fun, but you'll loose a few
luck points!</P>

<P>Winning twice in a row is considered the luckiest thing of all!
</P>

<P>Seeing a joker card is also lucky!</P>

<P>If you win an average number of games, your luck will stay pretty
much the same (it might improve a bit), if you win more than the
average person, your luck will increase, now this is based on the
statistics I (with the help of my beta testers) managed to compile by
playing many games, over time, future versions of the game will be
more fair, especially if you let me know how many games you've
played, which settings you used and how many you've won. Send me
mail!</P>

<H2><A NAME="Removing Solo Deluxe"></A>Removing Solo Deluxe</H2>

<P>If you ever decide to remove Solo Deluxe (why?) you might want to
be aware of two things. Solo creates some preferences in your
Newton's memory, they are small, but they are there. There is no way
for a programmer to know when you actually delete an application
(there is no difference between removing an app and removing a card
which contains the app). Because of this, you can end up with some
data you do not need, which is why there is an option in Solo
Deluxe's preferences to clear the preferences when you quit Solo
Deluxe. In such a case, the memory is freed from your Newton, and if
you remove Solo Deluxe at that point, no preferences will stay in
your Newton's precious memory.</P>

<H2><A NAME="Changing your Preferences"></A>Changing your Preferences
</H2>

<P>Tap the "i" button and select "Prefs". </P>

<UL>
   <LI>Card design: Choose your favorite!
   
   <LI>Back Design: Many styles to choose from!
   
   <LI>Specific options: Choose the number of flips of the Deck, the
   playing technique (drag or tap), etc.
   
   <LI>Auto Startup: Start Solo Deluxe directly into your favorite
   game!
</UL>

<H3><A NAME="Displaying the Welcome screen"></A>Displaying the
Welcome screen</H3>

<P>So you like the Welcome screen eh? But you decided you didn't want
to see it anymore? And now you want to see it again? Well fear no
more! You can display it again by choosing "Show Welcome screen" in
the Preferences.</P>

<H2><A NAME="History of changes"></A>History of changes</H2>

<BLOCKQUOTE><P><B>Changes in 2.0</B></P>

<UL>
   <LI>Fixed  glitch which made the luck points appear in a strange
   place under Netwon OS 2.0. Fixed a bug which caused an error to be
   displayed when launching Solo Deluxe for the first time.
   
   <LI>Added the game Aces.
   
   <LI>Inverted the position of the Lucky Horseshoe...
   
   <LI>Made changes to the help file.
   
   <LI>Changed author info.
   
   <LI>Changed some interface elements to follow the Newton OS 2.0
   guidelines a little more closely.
</UL>

<P><B>Changes in 1.62</B></P>

<UL>
   <LI>Fixed a bug where starting a new game after choosing the
   Restart with same deck function once would not use a new deck but
   always use the same one.
   
   <LI>Fixed a bug with the options dialog (the text which hides the
   other options when selecting options for Pyramid was draggable).
</UL>

<P><B>Changes in 1.61</B></P>

<UL>
   <LI>Fixed a bug that stopped the welcome screen to be shown, even
   if it was set to be in the preferences.
   
   <LI>Fixed the delay until the Jocker appeared when a game was won
   (this might affect performance just a bit).
</UL>

<P><B>Changes in 1.6</B></P>

<UL>
   <LI>Finally fixed the bug making Solo Deluxe incompatible with
   Extras Drawer management software (removed the code that changed
   Solo DX's icon during a game).
   
   <LI>Added an option not to hear Solo's card sounds and surprises
   (useful for playing during long meetings).
   
   <LI>Added the option to display your current luck score during
   game play.
   
   <LI>Fixed a bug that made playing using the Tap method a very
   unlucky experience! This was a biggie!
   
   <LI>Fixed another few bugs
   
   <LI>Made it impossible to use both the Welcome screen and
   Autostart together since this caused errors.
   
   <LI>Corrected a spelling mistake in the Help file (if you care,
   replace the one you have).
</UL>

<P><B>Changes in 1.5</B></P>

<UL>
   <LI>Jumped to version 1.5 to stop the confusion about the old Solo
   1.41 (some people thought it was more recent than Solo Deluxe
   1.1).
   
   <LI>Better memory management (heap space doesn't get mangled as
   much, especially on MP100s)
   
   <LI>Fixed a bug that caused problems on Newtons using utilities
   like ExtraExtras (please report any problems).
</UL>

<P><B>Changes in 1.1</B></P>

<UL>
   <LI>New optional SoloDecksTwo file for those of you that miss the
   deck used in Solo 1.41... contains another deck as well. 
   
   <LI>Couple of changes to the Help file.
   
   <LI>A couple of spelling mistakes in the help file and the Joker's
   comments.
   
   <LI>Bug fix: when undoing a Deck flip, the number of remaining
   flips would not increase.
   
   <LI>Bug fix: Cannot tap through the Welcome screen anymore
   
   <LI>Interface: info button now complies with interface guidelines
   
   <LI>Interface: "How many card flipped" outline dissapears during
   game play.
</UL></BLOCKQUOTE>

<P>Solo Deluxe is distributed as a stuffit file. If you do not have
the decompressor for this file format, you can download it from
<A HREF="http://www.aladdinsys.com/index.html">Aladdin System's web
page</A> and other sources. Updates are available on the
<A HREF="http://www.scoopnet.ca/solodx">Solo Deluxe home page</A> at
<A HREF="http://www.scoopnet.ca/solodx">http://www.scoopnet.ca/solodx</A>
</P>

<P>Here a couple of things you should know:</P>

<P>Solo Deluxe takes up quite a bit of RAM (about 140K), especially
if you have the Help book  and the extra Deck designs installed
(SoloHelpII (19K), SoloDecks (45K) and SoloDecksTwo (31K)). If this
is too much for you, find a copy of Solo 1.41 (regular version with
Klondike only) which takes up less RAM (58K) and which also comes
with Solo Lite , a lighter (35K) version that supports all the same
rules, but without the gadgets. Both of these are free.</P>

<H2><A NAME="Feedback"></A>Feedback</H2>

<P><B>Send Registration fee ($15), comments/suggestions/bug reports
to:</B></P>

<ADDRESS>Marcela Seguel</ADDRESS>

<ADDRESS>Internet:
<A HREF="mailto:mseguel@scoopnet.ca">mseguel@scoopnet.ca</A>
</ADDRESS>

<ADDRESS>3421 Aubry</ADDRESS>

<ADDRESS>Longueuil, Qu&eacute;bec</ADDRESS>

<ADDRESS>Canada J4M 2W4</ADDRESS>

<P>Thanks to Scott Leapman, Matthiew Dixon Cowles and Jeremy Wyld for
beta testing! And to Scott Fringer for helping out with DOS
compression stuff.</P>

<H2><A NAME="Cheating"></A>Cheating</H2>

<P>Playing a card from the Deck or Stock to the Columns, then moving
it to another column (Klondike &amp; Canfield), moving a card from
the Foundations back into play or changing the number of cards
flipped half way through the gameI</P>

<P>Although these moves are not valid (and illegal!), the game lets
you play them anyway, but beware you may feel guilty after cheating
this way (and your luck points may decrease slightly in some cases)!
</P>

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