Copyright (C) 2003 - 2006 Markus Schwab (g17m0@lycos.com) This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. --> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> Cardgames - a collection of multi-player cardgames General information about the Cardgames The Cardgames are a collection of cardgames I (usually) learned from various people around the world, usually while travelling (what could kill time better in >10 hour bus/train/whatever rides than a good cardgame?) They are all multi-player games having a computer player. If you search for patience (single-player) games, you are wrong here; but check out the excellent KDE cardgames. They are distributed under the GNU General Public License, which basically says like this (see the file COPYING along with this package or the GNU homepage (http://www.gnu.org) for more details): This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Author Both the program and the documentation have been written by Markus Schwab. Games Currently there are the following games: Buraco - Canasta with a latin touch Hearts - A game where you better don't get them Machiavelli - Order (and re-order) cards til you have no more Røvhult - An internationally know cardgame (aka Shithead, Asshole, ...) Sgt. Mayor - Get your tricks or regret it Twopart - A norwegian cardgame (in two parts) Usage Principally the program is started without any options, like this: CardCol Depending on the version (or the options while configuring) exist different options to control the program. CardCol --help prints a help for the usage. Credits A big hug to Ingrid and Jonathan for teaching me all of the tricks which Buraco has to offer. Not to mention the hours we actually spend playing it. A "Grützi" to Michael (Miguel) Suttner who informed me about Machiavelli. A big hello to Ver髇ica, Tanja and Graham for showing me Sgt. Mayor. A nice one (beanflickers)! Greetings to Andreas, Jakob and Janus, who taught me the rules of R鴙hult. Thanks to Ann-Karin, Arne, B錼n and Solveing for introducing me to Twopart. Hearts is distributed along with Windows 98 (and maybe other versions). Markus Schwab (g17m0@lycos.com)