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	QUEEN OF SPADES
	      by
	   LEIF REM
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This is the game of Queen of Spades. It bears some resemblence to other
card games, I'm told. It's apparently a French game, Dame de Pique.

The version here is a very early one. Things don't quite work as they
should. For instance, the computer players are idiots. All they do is
pick up a card and put down a card. So it's up to you to win. There are
various other bugs and the rules aren't completely enforced yet. (You
can pick up the stack without immediately using that top card.) But this
is to show you what the game will eventually look like.

- 16 Aug 2001




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  INSTALLATION

All files should be put in the same directory. (That's it, really.)
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  FILES

qos.jar		Queen of Spades game
images.jar	images used by the game
Q.ico		icon for your use (if you want)
options.dat	options for game play
rules.html	rules of the game
README.txt	this file
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  RUN

Double click qos.jar to play the game. Windows should know what to do with jar files.
It runs them thusly: "javaw -jar". (You need Java Runtime Environment.)
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  CONTACT

Leif: sp3000@bellsouth.net
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