PATIENCE ver 1.00

By OASO (oaso_2000@yahoo.com.mx)
Released 30-apr-2001

Patience is a collection of five of the most popular solitaire games written for the TI-89 using TI-GCC.

FEATURES

Grayscale GFX.
A nice and familiar GUI.
Runs without any kernel on HW1 and HW2 TI-89.
Four save slots.
A games library.

INSTALLING AND STARTING PATIENCE

Upload the file ENGLISH.89G to your TI-89.
Archieve the files PAT.ASM and PATDAT.PPG.
Type pat() on the command line or press [ENTER] over PATDAT.PPG from TICT-EXPLORER. If you want to launch PATIENCE only from TICT-EXPLORER, you won't need PAT.ASM.
WARNING! There are a lot of ASM launcher programs with a very ugly bug that makes calcs crash when launching large programs. I recommend you to launch PATIENCE from the MAIN SCREEN or TICT-EXPLORER. TI-BASIC launcher programs also work OK.

THE MENU SYSTEM

New:

Klondike: Starts a new Klondike game.

Piramid: Starts a new Piramid game.

Golf: Starts a new Golf game.

Free Cell: Starts a new Free Cell game.

Diplomat: Starts a new Diplomat game.

Library: Lets you choose the number of the next game. Example: To play the Klondike game #1 of the book #3, choose Library and set book:3 and game:1, then choose a new Klondike game.

Load/Save: Lets you load and save your game. Slot 0 is saved automatically when you leave the program. You can access this menu via the [STO] key.

Help: Shows the help pages with a brief description of each game's rules. you can reach the general help via the [F1] key.

About: Shows the credits and the program version. It also displays the number of game you're playing.

Exit: Exits the program.

KEYS

[F1]	Shows General Help Page
[UP]	Move Cursor Up
[DOWN]	Move Cursor Down
[LEFT]	Move Cursor Left
[RIGHT]	Move Cursor Right
[DIAMOND]	Slow Down Cursor
[ENTER],[2ND]	Select Card/Make Move/Open Menu Entry
[ESC]	Enter or Leave Main Menu
[STO]	Load/Save Game
[CATALOG]	Open Games Library
[BACK]	Take back a Move
[ON]	Turn calc OFF
[F5]	Boss Key

CREDITS

The TI-GCC team for their great work with the 68K compiler.
Zeljco Zuric for his wonderful library.
Thomas Nussbaumer for the routines I borrowed from TI-CHESS. You can find his homepage at tict.ticalc.org.
Julio Liquidano for beta testing and for borrowing me his calc when I had not mine.
You! for downloading my program.
And me (OASO) for the coding.

TODO

You tell me! Here's my e-mail again:

oaso_2000@yahoo.com.mx

PROTECTIVE DECLARATION

This program has been tested a lot and it runs very stable (it has never crashed my calc nor my friend's). However, as all the computer software, it is not perfect and there exist the remote posibility that it may crash your calc. If that ever hapens, remember, IT'S YOUR FAULT!