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Seahaven Towers - A solitaire game
SYNOPSISseahaven [-display display:number] [-speed num]
DESCRIPTIONseahaven is an X implementation of a solitaire game sometimes known as
Seahaven Towers, which I originally saw as a shareware game for the
Macintosh. seahaven is a fairly blatent rip-off of that game.
RULES FOR SEAHAVEN TOWERS
The game is played using an ordinary deck of cards. The cards are all
face-up; you always know where all of the cards are. At any time, each
card is in one of three kinds of stacks:
- Playing stacks. There are ten of these, each initially having five
cards.
- Working stacks. There are four of these, two of them initially hav‐
ing a card in them. Each working stack is allowed to contain at most
one card.
- Ace stacks. There are four of these, one for each suit. They are
initially empty. Cards must be placed in these stacks in ascending
order, starting with the ace. The object of the game is to get all the
cards in the ace stacks.
The rules are simple. You may only move one card at a time; only a
card in a working stack or on the top of a playing stack may be moved.
A card may be moved to the top of a playing stack only if it is the
same suit that was on top there and the next lower card. (In other
words, you may only place the seven of spades on top of the eight of
spades.) A card may be moved to any empty working stack. And a card
may be moved to an ace stack if it is an ace or if it is the next
higher card than the one that is already there.
PLAYING SEAHAVEN
To move a card, just drag it with the left mouse button. When you let
go, it will be placed on the stack that the card was moved closest to,
if such a move is legal. If the move is not legal, the card will
spring back to its original location.
Since it is always to your advantage to move cards to the ace stacks as
soon as possible, cards will be automatically moved there for you.
There is also a convenient shortcut: you may move several cards at once
from one playing stack to another, providing that such a move would be
possible using available empty work stacks.
To help you locate cards, if you press the middle button on a card, the
next lower card of the same suit will be highlighted. If you press the
right button, the next higher card will be highlighted.
Since there is no hidden information in the game, it's not quite cheat‐
ing to provide undo commands. There are Undo and Redo buttons at the
bottom of the window; you may also use the U and R keys. The Restart
button will restore you back to the original set-up.
If you give up, you can press the Autoplay button. The computer will
figure out whether there's a solution. If there is, you can review the
computer's solution by using the Restart and Redo buttons. This counts
as a loss (unless you've already won the hand). If there isn't a solu‐
tion then you win the game.
SCORING
If you get all the cards into the ace piles, you will be scored a win.
If you press the New Game button or the Autoplay button without having
won, you will be scored a loss. Your wins and losses will be remem‐
bered across invocations of seahaven.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
The -speed flag changes the speed of the animation. The higher the
number, the faster cards will move when automatically transferred to
the ace piles. The default value is 30.
BUGS
Needs an icon.
Does not look at any resources at all. That is, your .Xdefaults file
will be ignored.
Lots of the code is horrid.
This man page is poorly written.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1991 by Terry Weissman and Charles Haynes.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, pro‐
vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup‐
porting documentation, and that the names of Terry Weissman or
Charles Haynes or their employers not be used in advertising or public‐
ity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, writ‐
ten prior permission. Terry Weissman and Charles Haynes make no repre‐
sentations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It
is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
TERRY WEISSMAN AND CHARLES HAYNES AND THEIR EMPLOYERS DISCLAIM ALL WAR‐
RANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL THEY BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSO‐
EVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
So there.
AUTHORS
Terry Weissman
Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
weissman@sgi.com
Auto-play code by
Charles Haynes
Western Software Laboratory
Digital Equipment Corporation
haynes@wsl.dec.com
Card drawing code by
Bill Spitzak <spitzak@d2.com>
Additional code by
Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Card images from "spider" game:
Copyright (c) 1990 by David Lemke & Network Computing Devices, Inc.
(lemke@ncd.com)
Copyright 1990 Heather Rose and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Copyright (c) 1989, Donald R. Woods and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
07 Feb 1991 seahaven(6)
