FreeCell

FreeCell V 1.26 Dec '97 for the Psion Siena (C) Copyright Mark Fitzpatrick 1996,1997 1. CONTACT INFORMATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you have any questions, require some assistance, or just feel like exchanging some e-mail, I can be contacted via email: + For Compuserve users:- 100026,2452 + For Internet users:- markf@mssoft.com.au + For Snail Mail users: Mark Fitzpatrick, 10 Brandon Place, St Ives, 2075 SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA 2. OVERVIEW ~~~~~~~~ FreeCell is a game of patience played with all 52 cards of a deck. Unlike conventional patience, each game of FreeCell is thought to be solvable so it is more like a set of individually challenging puzzles. The object of the game is to put all cards in suit and increasing numeric order (starting with the Ace) on the four home cells. Cards can be moved either to the free cells or on top of another card that is of the opposite colour and next numeric value eg. 7 Hearts on 8 Spades or Queen Diamonds on King Clubs The system will automatically put cards on the home cells when they are available. It will not automatically move cards that could still be used in the deck. 3. REGISTRATION: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Freecell a is shareware game. If you like it and wish to continue to use it you should register it. You may freely distribute FreeCell as long as all files in the package are included. An unregistered copy of Freecell will continue to remind you to register and will cease to work after 50 games have been played. To register: 1) For Compuserve users, "GO SWREG" and select the file with ID 10674. The charge is US $10 which will be added to your normal Compuserve bill. 2) Internet users can register via RegNet - The Registration Network. The URL to reach the information / registration page for FreeCell is: "http://www.swregnet.com/783p.htm" RegNet can be reached on the World Wide Web at the following URL: "http://www.swregnet.com" or by calling 1 800 WWW2REG (1 800 999-2734) or (805) 288-1827 The charge is $15 US. RegNet take $5 + 10% for the service, I get the rest. When registering please make sure you send the following information (if possible): + Your name (as you would enter it) <MANDATORY> + The version number <OPTIONAL> + The version build date and time <OPTIONAL> This will enable me to make sure you receive the latest version, no matter which version you currently happen to have. Once you have registered, you will be sent a registration ID which you enter along with your name. This will turn off the nag screens and disable the expiry mechanism. Benefits of being a registered user include: * Notification of bug fixes and enhancement availability. * No charge for fixes and enhancements * First 100 registrations will receive a bonus extra game including the OPL Source Code. (by email only) 4. INSTALLATION: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Copy Freecell.opa to the \APP\ directory on any drive on your Siena. 2) (Optional) Copy Freecell.rsc to an \APP\FREECELL\ directory on any drive of your Siena. 3) Install the Freecell.opa game using Psion-I from the System screen. 5. HISTORY ~~~~~~~ 27Mar96 V1.0 First Release 30Mar96 V1.01 Crashed sometimes when moving from Deck to Free cells and then back to the Deck. 05Apr96 V1.02 Reduced number of drawables kept open by using one for ALL suits instead of one per suit. Keep "special" drawable open for cursors use to fix hangup bug. 07Apr96 V1.02 Fixed the "Exit Number 25" problem when the "\APP\FREECELL" directory doesn't exist. Now it creates the directory automatically if it doesnt exist. 09Apr96 V1.03 Added Undo capability for last move, or moves if the computer made several automatic ones as a result of yours. Fixed bug in help. Don't ignore the drive info obtained when FREECELL.RSC is found on other than the default drive. 20Apr96 V1.04 Fixed bug where valid moves become invalid after aborting a move from Freecell to Deck. Add "Smart" cursor movement when dropping a card. The cursor stick's to valid choices only when appropriate. 28May96 V1.05 Changed the crippling to a fixed number of games (50) instead of a one month trial. 05Jun96 V1.06 Allow the FreeCells to participate in the automatic movement to HomeCells. Fixed a bug generating "Invalid Move"s when it shouldn't. Fixed a bug in the 50 games limit crippling that caused registration to be ignored! 31Mar97 V1.07 Fixed a crash where an array gets overrun. Changed the move behaviour when there are Aces that will be auto-moved. Changed the auto place selection to be "more sensible" when moving a card from a free cell back to the deck. Added new scoring features where best run, worst run and current run are recorded Added information on registering via the Internet. 14Apr97 V1.10 Added Column Move! 20Apr97 V1.11 Built a Siena Version as well as a 3a/3c version plus a small bug fix in column move. 25Apr97 V1.12 Changed Siena Card drawing. Fixed various dialogs on Siena. A few more bug fixes for both the 3a/3c and Siena versions. Made it harder to "cheat" on unregistered copies. 26Apr97 V1.20 Trying out some cosmetic changes to 3a/3c version. Added "Credits" section to on-line help. 04Jun97 V1.21 Fixed a "Column Move" bug and improved the cosmetics on the 3a. Changed the look of the "Free" and "Home" cells on Siena AND 3a/3c versions. 29Jun97 V1.22 "Smart" Column Move - able to leap tall... No able to move larger columns in a single move plus a new Card background pattern. 01Sep97 V1.23 Fixed a "resolution" bug in the stats dialog Re-arranged the layout of the Stats Dialog. 08Sep97 V1.24 Fixed a "divide by zero" bug in the stats dialog. Sorry about that folks! 13Sep97 V1.25 Fixed an error in the calculatiion of the available spave for a column move operation. 22Sep97 V1.26 Correctly handle System Exit command. 11Dec97 V1.26 Fixed a bug that was causing a regular crash with "Subscript or Dimension error" when moving a column with all free cells occupied