Solitaire City (Palm OS) 1.02

Solitaire City (Palm OS) 1.02 gives you a chance to play 37 variations of your favourite one and two pack Solitaire card games on your Palm OS powered handheld. Now you can play Solitaire on a long-haul flight, on a bus, in a dentist's waiting room - anywhere your Palm handheld goes !

Games include, Klondike - Pyramid - Poker Squares - Golf - Demon - Cribbage Squares - Casket and Alternations, each with multiple game rules to add variety.

Play against the clock for points. The faster you complete a game, the higher your score, the best of which are stored in one of many high score tables for future bragging rights. This unique timed scoring system makes Solitaire City unlike any other Palm solitaire collection you've played. You'll find it more addictive than chocolate !

Major Features:

1. Switch between 480 x 320 Landscape and 320 x 480 Portrait Hi-Res+ modes on Tapwave Zodiac. You can also play in Landscape mode on the Sony Clié UX-40/50 and switch between Hi-Res and Hi-Res+ screens on any device that supports collapsible graffiti areas.   
   
2. Solitaire City is played against the clock ! The faster you complete a game, the higher your score, the best of which are stored in one of many hi-score tables. Beam your best scores to a friend's handheld for some friendly competition. You'll find yourself playing long into the early hours, trying to shave a few seconds off your best time in order to see your name in lights.
   
3. Choose from a selection of beautifully designed card sets, including brand new cards sporting LARGE, easy to read numbers ! Now granny has no excuse not to see her name at the top of the hi-score tables !   Multiple Card Sets
4. Choose a stunning photorealistic JPEG image to display as a backdrop. Download more as they become available. 
   
5. Over 40 wacky digitized sound effects will entertain you as you play. Solitaire City comes with two sets of sound samples, one for older Sony devices that use the Yamaha ADPCM chip and another set that is compatible with all the newer OS 5 streaming audio devices. There's even a bunch of simple MIDI jingles for older devices that can't play digitized sound.  
   
6. A unique hands-on training system - Solitaire City can teach you how to play an unfamiliar game as you participate and will transform you from novice to pro in a matter of minutes. No more confusing instructions to read. Learn as you play !   Unique Training Mode
7. Designed for both colour and greyscale Palm OS® powered devices. Solitaire City will entertain you as much on a creaky old Palm V as it will on a throbbing Tapwave Zodiac.  
   
8. Eight popular one and two pack solitaire games; Klondike, Demon, Poker Squares, Pyramid, Cribbage Squares, Golf, Casket and Alternations, each with numerous game rules offering a total combination of 37 different game variations.
9. Show Move feature. When the going gets tough, hit the Show button to display a move recommendation. Choose your moment wisely though as you can only use this handy helper once every 25 seconds.
10. 30-day money back guarantee ! If for some reason you are not fully satisfied with your purchase you can return Solitaire City for a full refund.
11. Free technical support. If Solitaire City doesn't work correctly on your particular device then they will fix the problem.
12. Two years of free upgrades. Download the latest free version from any popular download site and your Registration Key will continue to unlock the game automatically.
13. Your Registration Key is not locked to your handheld's serial number or HotSync® ID, allowing you to install Solitaire City on as many Palm OS®  powered devices as you personally own after purchasing a single Registration Key. Also, when you eventually buy a new Palm® handheld you won't have to go through the hassle of requesting a new key.

Enhancements:

• New Features
  
  • Added two new card sets with much larger and easier to read numbers and symbols.
  • A single tap on a card will now send it flying to the foundations (no need to double tap anymore).
  • Added sampled sound effects for Sony Cliés that have the old Yamaha sound chip: NZ90, NX80, NX73, NX70V, NX60, TG50, SJ33, NR70V, NR70, T675C, T665C, T650C, T615 or T415.
  • InstallShield setup now lets you choose your handheld model and automatically selects the correct components to install.
  • Landscape mode now supported: Sony Clie UX50, Tapwave Zodiac etc.
  • Background images now stretch to fill Landscape or Portrait Hi-Res+ screens.
  • Sound configuration form now re-sizes to fit a Landscape or Portrait screen.
  • Card graphics files are now sorted in alphabetical order.
  • The face down deck now displays how many cards are left to turn.
• Bug Fixes
  
  • Now works on AlphaSmart Dana and Sony Clié UX40/50 in Landscape mode.
  • Fixed a major display problem with monochrome 320 x 320 devices such as Sony Clié T415.
  • When scrolling the sound files list, the table re-drew twice instead of once. This has been fixed.
  • A rogue pixel that occasionally occurred at the lower left corner of a card if it was moving diagonally up and to the right, has been removed.
  • If you selected "No Sound" for the "Shuffle The Deck" sound event, the game would crash. This has been fixed.
  • If you won a game of golf using a 160 x 160 device, the fireworks wouldn't traverse the line of cards. This has been fixed.
  • Sometimes, the training help arrow would go underneath a card. This has been fixed together with the cleaning of a few pixels that used to be left behind by the arrow.
  • Re-sizing the screen during a Poker Squares game now re-draws your scores around the square.
  • The menu button in the top left of the screen now works on a Tungsten W and any other device with a keyboard that requires a shift key press before the menu key.

Requirements :

• Palm OS 3.0 or higher
• 16 shades of grey or colour display
• 556 KB to 1610 KB of free storage space depending on installation options (screen resolution, backgrounds and sounds installed).