What is Matches? Matches is a simple game of memory. You play against the computer, attempting to remember the position of pictures hidden under squares. The game has an option to let you match pictures with words. I wrote this game for my five year old daughter to help her learn her vocabulary words from school. Contrary to what she claims, the computer does not cheat at the higher level settings. Installing Matches There is no fancy installation program with Matches. Simply copy the files on this disk to any suitable directory on your hard disk. The three files you will need are; MATCHES.EXE, MATCHES.IMA, MATCHES.HLP. You can add Matches to your Program Manager by selecting the program group, then selecting the File New menu option. Select Program Item and click on OK. For the description type "Matches" and enter the full path and program name on the Command Line entry, eg. D:\GAMES\MATCHES.EXE. Starting Matches Double click on the Matches Icon in either the Program Manager or the File Manager. Playing Matches Rules and instructions for playing Matches are obtained by using the Help menu selection. The menus are for adults. Kids don't usually need instructions. (They wouldn't follow them even if they had them.) Customizing Matches Matches contains about 50 pictures. More than enough if you're just playing a memory game,but if your using Matches for increasing your child's vocabulary you may need to customize it with your own pictures. Registered users can add pictures to the Matches data base by sending the pictures on disk to the address below. Pictures must be in two color Microsoft Bitmap format and measure 72 x 72 pixels. You can make these by using the Windows Paint program. Name the bitmap the word you want to appear in matches, for example; MOOSE.BMP for moose. Include a self addressed stamped disk mailer with your order. There is no charge for this service. All artwork becomes the property of Quality Concepts. Speeding up Matches The internal memory settings for Matches have been set to allow the game to be played in real mode with only 640K of memory. If you're running in Standard or Extended Mode and you have extra memory you can speed up the program placing the following lines in your WIN.INI file. [Matches] static=150 If the Matches section exists in win.ini, simply add the static line. If you get the message "Not enough memory to run Matches", set this value at 70, and try to run the program again. Repeat this routine every time you get the message, decreasing the value by 10 each time. Do not set below 40 however. Settings below 40 may cause the computer to hang or error messages to be generated. Registering Matches You may evaluate Matches free of charge, but if you wish to use it, you must register it with Quality Concepts. To register, send $10.00 (ten dollars, US) to Quality Concepts PO Box 88106 Sioux Falls, SD 57105 Include a self addressed stamped postcard. On the back of the post card PRINT your name. Follow the instructions on screen when this post card is returned. Only Registered users will recieve future expanded versions (more pictures) of matches. Registration will eliminate the nagware screens. Distribution You may freely copy and distribute Matches in unaltered form. You must receive written permission from the author if you charge more than $5 for this service. ----------------end-of-author's-documentation--------------- Software Library Information: This disk copy provided as a service of Public (software) Library We are not the authors of this program, nor are we associated with the author in any way other than as a distributor of the program in accordance with the author's terms of distribution. Please direct shareware payments and specific questions about this program to the author of the program, whose name appears elsewhere in this documentation. If you have trouble getting in touch with the author, we will do whatever we can to help you with your questions. All programs have been tested and do run. To report problems, please use the form that is in the file PROBLEM.DOC on many of our disks or in other written for- mat with screen printouts, if possible. PsL cannot debug pro- programs over the telephone, though we can answer questions. Disks in the PsL are updated monthly, so if you did not get this disk directly from the PsL, you should be aware that the files in this set may no longer be the current versions. Also, if you got this disk from another vendor and are having prob- lems, be aware that some files may have become corrupted or lost by that vendor. Get a current, working disk from PsL. For a copy of the latest monthly software library newsletter and a list of the 3,000+ disks in the library, call or write Public (software) Library P.O.Box 35705 - F Houston, TX 77235-5705 Orders only: 1-800-2424-PSL MC/Visa/AmEx/Discover Outside of U.S. or in Texas or for general information, Call 1-713-524-6394 PsL also has an outstanding catalog for the Macintosh.