From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 01:33:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Initial revision X-Git-Tag: 2-4~14 X-Git-Url: http://thyrsus.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7be96b939fb302fd8d005165325f4cf3bfedf805;p=bluemoon.git Initial revision --- diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6672bde --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ + Blue Moon + by Tim Lister and Eric S. Raymond + +This simple game includes complete instructions on the game screen. It needs +to be linked with an SVr4-compatible curses. For best results, use the +freeware ncurses distributed with Linux. + +READ.ME -- this file +Makefile -- how to build it +blue.c -- my spiffy ncurses version +blue.c.orig -- Tim Lister's original, for comparison purposes +blue.6 -- a brief manual page + + Eric S. Raymond + esr@snark.thyrsus.com + (WWW: http://www.thyrsus.com/~esr/home.html) diff --git a/blue.xml b/blue.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f06517 --- /dev/null +++ b/blue.xml @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.TH BLUE 6 "Nov 31 1994" +.SH NAME +blue \- Blue Moon +.SH SYNOPSIS +blue +.SH DESCRIPTION +This 52-card solitaire starts with the entire deck shuffled and dealt +out in four rows. The aces are then moved to the left end of the layout, +making 4 initial free spaces. You may move to a space only the card that +matches the left neighbor in suit, and is one greater in rank. Kings are +high, so no cards may be placed to their right (they create dead spaces). +.P +When no moves can be made, cards still out of sequence are reshuffled +and dealt face up after the ends of the partial sequences, leaving a card +space after each sequence, so that each row looks like a partial sequence +followed by a space, followed by enough cards to make a row of 14. +.P +A moment's reflection will show that this game cannot take more than 13 +deals. A good score is 1-3 deals, 4-7 is average, 8 or more is poor. +.SH AUTHORS +Originally written by Tim Lister. Visual user interface and color support by +Eric S. Raymond . The ncurses version was written in +November 1994. See http://www.thyrsus.com/~esr/home.html for updates, also +other software and resources by ESR.