NAME

ace-of_penguins - Solitaire-games with penguin-look

SYNOPSIS

  ace-canfield
  ace-freecell
  ace-golf
  ace-mastermind
  ace-merlin
  ace-minesweeper
  ace-pegged
  ace-solitaire
  ace-spider
  ace-taipei
  ace-taipedit
  ace-thornq

OPTIONS

None.

DESCRIPTION

From the author's intro.html: "The Ace of Penguins is a set of Unix/X solitaire games based on the ones available for Windows(tm) but with a number of enhancements that make my wife like my versions better :-)"

ace-canfield: Solitary card-game
ace-freecell: Solitary card-game
ace-spider: Solitary card-game
ace-solitaire: Solitary card-game
ace-thornq: Solitary card-game
ace-golf: Another solitary card-game
ace-mastermind: Guess a secret combination of colors.
ace-merlin: Classical puzzle, rather frustrating.
ace-minesweeper: Find all hidden mines in a minefield.
ace-pegged: Classical board game.
ace-taipei: Asian puzzle, remove pairs of equal stones.
ace-taipedit: Editor for your own ace-taipei levels.

KEYS

All games use the same library of functions and thus the same keys:

F1: Online help.
Esc: Esc or "Q" to leave the game.

NOTES

The upstream author DJ Delorie has written an informative webpage which is installed in /usr/share/doc/ace-of-penguins/intro.html

The original binaries were renamed to include prefix ace-* to avoid name clashes.

BUGS

If you encounter any bugs in this package, please report them to the Debian Bug Tracking System at http://bugs.debian.org/.

ENVIRONMENT

None.

FILES

None.

AUTHORS

Programs are by DJ Delorie, some by Martin Thornquist.

This manual page was written 1999-09-09 by Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org> for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Updated 2007-09-03 by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>. Released under license GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version.

2023-01-13

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