                                                               

                   C A N A S T A  FROM SPECIAL K SOFTWARE 




                             release 3.4 - 2008

                            created by G.M.McKAY





 COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS:

      Any 486, pentium or better IBM compatible computer will successfully 
run this game as long as it can run Windows 95, or better, and has over 8 Mb 
of memory. It will use any sound driver that your Windows has fitted (ie. a 
sound card or PC speaker driver).   A mouse is required (as with all  
Windows activities).  It works best if Windows has a standard 
screen resolution, such as 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or 1280x1024.   
However, it can accommodate any resolution.   You should have at least 
256 colours in your Screen Color Palette.





 DISTRIBUTION:

       This copyrighted game is distributed under the SHAREWARE system which 
depends upon your support for on-going development.   You are encouraged to 
freely copy and distribute this product unaltered to  friends,  business 
associates, bulletin boards and user groups.   HOWEVER THIS  PRODUCT IS NOT 
FREE! 

       You have an evaluation period of two weeks.  If you decide you do 
not like the game, simply pass the disk along to someone else.   If you are 
still using "Canasta From Special K" after two weeks  of  evaluation, you are 
obligated to send a minimum payment of $30.   If the future of low-cost 
quality software is to continue, we all must support this concept.   If you  
cheat on this payment may you be constantly finessed.

       When you register, you get lots of goodies, as well as that warm fuzzy 
feeling that only comes from the knowledge that you are more saintly than the 
scum around you.
 
	If you registered a previous version that gave you life time 
registrations (like this one does), simply setup this Shareware program on 
top of the previous one (ie into the same directory).  It will become 
registered.   DO NOT delete the previous version.




 INSTALLATION:

     CANASTA 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 
\Program Files\CANASTA From Special K directory -

 	CANASTA.EXE -  base program
	CANASTA.CHM -  Windows help file
	CANASTA.TXT -  ASCII text help file
 	REGO.FRM   -  user registration form
	SCORES.CAN -  game scores and set-up info
	*.CRD      -  data files.

       In addition, it will make sure that you have Windows system files in 
your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.



       If you received this software from a Bulletin Board or the Internet, 
it will be compressed into the one file, eg CANASTA.ZIP.   Before running the 
installation program you will need to decompress it.   Create a temporary 
directory, eg C:\MYTEMP, 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 run 
the SETUP.EXE program.   The easiest way of doing this is choose RUN from 
Windows START button, and type in the drive, directory, and SETUP.EXE name. 
Alternatively, you can run it from the File Explorer.   If you have Winzip 
installed, you just have to open the .ZIP file and run the SETUP.EXE file.

       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 CANASTA game in a group called 
"Canasta From special K" that it creates in the Programs group on the START 
button.   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:\MYTEMP,  you can  now 
remove it.

       The total space that this program takes up on disk is about 3.8 Mbytes.   

       If you run CANASTA 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 Display icon in the Control 
Panel.   It works best with standard resolutions, such as 640x480, 800x600, 
1024x768, or 1280x1024.   However it supports most other resolutions.  
If it does not fill the whole screen, you can force it to use a particular
 resolution by including on the command line /RESOLUTION500x400.   Adjust
 the numbers to make the game suit your screen.   The command line is set 
by the 'properties' of the 'Canasta' shortcut.

        You will never want to do it, but you can delete the program, via
the 'Add/Remove Programs' icon in the 'Control Panel' (use the 'START' 
button, then 'SETTINGS').

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	If you have any problems with this program, whether installing 
it, or running it, please let me know.   You can contact me on
gmckay@specialksoftware.com 
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