FIVE  HUNDRED  card  game  for  WINDOWS




			     release 2.2 - 1996

			    created by G.M.McKAY






 INSTALLATION:

       500WIN is distributed in a form which makes installation easy for you.    
Like all Windows programs, its installation is more complex than DOS 
programs, but the SETUP.EXE utility takes care of all this for you.    This 
way, it can ensure that you have the correct Windows System files that it 
needs to run properly, without you having to do any work.

       After installation, you should have these files in the \500WIN 
directory -
	500WIN.EXE -  base program
	500WIN.TXT -  this information 
	REGO.FRM   -  user registration form
	SCORES.500 -  game scores and set-up info
	*.WAV      -  27 sound files.

       In addition, it will make sure that you have VBRUN300.DLL and other 
Windows files in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.


       If you received this software from a Bulletin Board, it will be 
compressed into the one file, eg 500WIN22.ZIP.   Before running the 
installation program you will need to decompress it.   Create a temporary 
directory, eg C:\500TEMP, and decompress all the files into it.   The 
software is now ready to install, as if you had bought it on a floppy disk.

       Now start Windows, and run the SETUP.EXE program.   The easiest way of 
doing this is choose "RUN" from Windows File menu  (type Alt F R ), and 
type in the drive, directory, and SETUP.EXE name.   Alternatively, you can 
run it from the File Manager.

       The installation program prompts you to enter the directory name in 
which to store the files.   The installation program does NOT interfere with 
any of your standard set-up eg, AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, *.INI,  path.   It 
places the icon to start the 500WIN game in a group called "500 for 
Windows" that it creates in the Program Manager.   If you want, you can 
easily move this icon to a different group (by the usual method of dragging 
and dropping).

       If  you created a temporary directory, eg C:\500TEMP,  you can  now 
remove it.

       The total space that this program takes up on disk is about 980 
Kbytes.   

       If you run 500WIN and find that it does not fill the whole screen, the 
answer is probably the screen resolution that you have chosen for Windows.   
You can change this via the Windows set-up in the Program Manager's "Main 
Group".   It works best with a standard 640 x 480 resolution.




VERSION 2.2:

       This version has a number of bug fixes and improvements, including 
supporting multiple screen resolutions, a better setup file, larger cards and 
better sound.   It is based on the FIVE HUNDRED CARD GAME v6.2, which runs 
through DOS, but 500WIN has a number of improvements in both appearance and 
features.