Review of Picture Puzzle v.1.3
by Stan Hallett, President 
Mid-Coast Computer Society of Maine
April 1992
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I wasn't sure what this program was as I loaded the diskette
in my B:> drive, but I told the author Dan Linton that I would be
glad to take a look at it. I must say that one of my favorite things 
to do is play computer games. I guess you would say that I'm just a 
big forty year old kid. So when I found out that this was a puzzle I 
was anxious to take a look at it.

The first thing that I liked was the great looking graphics. I have
a VGA for a reason and I like to see it put to use. The graphics
were great! I then found that the game was mouse friendly, and
since I had a pet mouse I liked this feature.
 
This shareware game comes with three puzzles, but you'll get ten
puzzles by registering the game for a mere $15. This would be a
good game for young children and adults because you can select the 
puzzle to only be a four piece puzzle, all the way up to a 1400 piece
puzzle.
 
Once selected, it will randomly shuffle the pieces right on
your screen. Now you get to put it back together using your mouse.
To run picture puzzle you need at least 640K of memory, an EGA or
VGA display and a Microsoft compatible mouse.

By giving you the option of selecting the number of tiles in which
the picture is divided, you can set the difficulty of the puzzle.
You mark the tile you want by clicking the mouse on it, then click
the location you want to move to.
 
Clicking the right mouse button brings a pull-down menu from which
you can look at what the completed puzzle should look like. You can
save the puzzle, or you can turn the grid lines off and on. The
puzzle will also tell you how many moves it took you to complete
the puzzle and how many moves were correct.
 
The cheat keys will help you by moving the tile into the correct
position if you get stuck. This program will work with any
640x350x16 PCX, GIF, or PUZ images, so you can build your own
personal collection of puzzles.
 
You can download Picture Puzzle v 1.3 from your local BBS by
downloading PPUZZ13.ZIP. Congratulations to Dan Linton of Software
Creations BBS for such a great game! Incidently, Software Creations
BBS os the official BBS for all the Apogee Software games. These
are some of the best available today, including commercially! You can 
connect with the Software Creations BBS at (508) 365-2359.