DEC Rainbow Graphics Solitaire

                                   by

                                Marc Kenig


        No part of this game, including program code, data, or executable
        may be used to make money off this version of solitaire without
        the (bought-off) permission of the author.  If you think you can
        make a profit out of marketing a program for the DEC Rainbow,
        you're nuts anyway and my lawyer would have you comitted gratis
        while she's suing the pants off you. That includes you freeware
        marketeers, too.  Nobody can make money off this besides me.
        It's already been done for the IBM-PC, anyway.

        This archive contains a computer implementation to a version of the 
game solitaire. It implements a standard variation of the game, and you get
to see the card faces and move them around the screen. The "red" card faces
are a bit faint in black-and-white mode, so diddle the contrast 'till you
can see them better.

        THIS PROGRAM REQUIRES A DEC RAINBOW COLOR/GRAPHICS CARD.  IF YOU
DON'T HAVE ONE, YOU WON'T SEE NOTHIN'.

        See the program help for details.

        You win (rarely) if you arrange the cards into 4 ranks of alternating
suit color.  This happens rarely since the program hadnles the deck in a
more difficult manner than is standard. Sorry, it was easier to program that 
way and the source code is included if you want to change it.

        You lose (frequently) if you can't use a card from the deck after
passing through the deck once.  You see every third card. You can't cheat 
and the computer decides, without warning when you've lost.

        After loss, the program displays the cards in the deck. You don't
get to see the cards in the piles "under" the ranks, sorry.

        This marks my swan-song in freeware for the DEC Rainbow. It's just 
not satisfying anymore, not to mention extremely unprofitable. I'm packing the
beige orphan off in mothballs in an obscure corner of my office in lieu of an
Apple Macintosh SE. *SOB*. :-<