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Colin's Classic Cards

Colin's Classic Cards - 1.1

Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Pitch (Setback) card games

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All Time: (4.3)
This Version: (4.3)
Current Version: 1.1
Release Date: 2002-04-15
License: Commercial
Downloads (this version): 3,183
Downloads (all versions): 3,183
Price: $29.95

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Product Description:

Play Hearts, Spades, Euchre and Pitch (Setback) with dozens of colorful computer opponents or online against real people from around the globe. Colin's Classic Cards makes it as simple as a few clicks of the mouse! With novice and advanced skill settings, support for all the most popular variations, and built-in rules to help you learn, (or re-learn), the games you'll be a card shark in no time.

What's new in this version:

  • Drawing performance of the game window is significantly improved. People with older machines should find the games much more playable, and Mac OS X users should find that the games use far fewer CPU cycles.
  • A delay between cards played in network games has been removed speeding up game play in network games
  • The time to quit games is approximately 700% faster. This reduces the time it it takes to switch to a different game and get back on to AspyrWorld.
  • Added support for Random Rooms, each new game will randomly select a room when turned on. On by default.
  • Added support for Random Puppets in solo games, enabled with a checkbox in the Puppets dialog. On by default. Each new solo game gets three random puppets.
  • While online, typing "/help" in the chat section now displays help
  • Score Pad cosmetically improved. The bottom portion of the score pad now supports most Edit menu options: content can be selected, copied and cleared using the Edit menu items.
  • When connected to AspyrWorld, using the Quit and Open option to open a different CCC game will automatically log you back in to AspyrWorld.
  • There is a new preference to control how talkative the puppets are. When using "terse" talking puppets, only essential information is spoken by the puppets (bids, and so on).
  • Redesigned the Solo Stats window. It now includes the number of hands played and an option to open after each solo game.
  • Added Drag and Drop support for iPuppet image in the Preferences dialog
  • Many network play messages now include more information about who is dealing or who won the trick. For example, "Ian dealt, Colin is bidding"
  • Moved the two options from the Pitch Rules dialog into the Preferences dialog that controlled the information visible on the score pad. The Rules dialog is now used only for actual options that modify game play.
  • Slightly redesigned the Rules dialog to be more compliant with the Mac OS X interface guidelines.
  • The main game window's chat typer now supports Undo on Mac OS X.
  • The AspyrWorld window now uses Mac OS X's "Quartz" text drawing for the chat typer and chat history
  • The Score Pad window is automatically hidden now when the AspyrWorld window is frontmost. When the game window resumes being frontmost, the score pad is once again shown.
  • Hiding the desktop now attempts to switch screen resolutions to 800x600. Hold down the option key when the desktop is being hidden (at startup or when changing it via Preferences) to confirm the the switch. Once the desktop is hidden, if the resolution is switched to something other than 800x600, the games will remember that and use your preferred resolution the next time.
  • When the desktop is hidden, the game window is now larger if the monitor resolution is higher. This allows for a larger chat history area.
  • When joining a new network game, a welcome message from the host is now displayed (in case the game name does not include the name of the host).
  • Home/End and Page Up/Down work when the chat history areas of the game window or server window are focused.
  • Copy, Select All and Clear now work in the chat history areas of both the game and server windows.
  • In Pitch, when not playing with the Queen or the Jack, that column on the Score Pad is disabled.
  • The game list in the server window now displays the lock icon immediately after the game name
  • The Music menu has been removed. We were ahead of our time, but iTunes is just too good at this.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.1
  • Mac OS X 10.0
  • Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS 8.6 - OS X

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Colin's Classic Cards CommentaryThese games have… - Version: 1.1, 10/29/2002 08:06AM PST

Bryan Pietrzak
been replaced now by the newer 3D Deluxe card games from Freeverse. You can visit their web site at http://www.freeverse.com or search for 3D Deluxe here on VersionTracker. Upgrades from CCC to the new 3D games are free I believe.
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Colin's Classic Cards ReviewGreat Games, great… - Version: 1.1, 4/18/2002 03:50AM PST

Spock26
server. Come and try it, you will have a blast.
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Colin's Classic Cards ReviewCCC is a… - Version: 1.1, 4/16/2002 07:54AM PST

Gerald Wilson
fun way to play a few classic card games on-line. this update is definitely faster than the last version on os x, and many bugs were worked out. chat now works much better, for instance. graphics look nice in OS X (though the old freeverse aesthetic was better IMHO than the new aspyr one). this still suffers from the original design flaws, tho. since these games were originally marketed separately by freeverse, they are separate applications that duplicate much of each other's resources. you have to quit one and log off to use another (re-launch and re-logon). combining them into a single application would be the thing to do. also, afaik you still cannot create a new registered user account. you have to log on as guest. tho this has nothing to do with the code (apparenlty a sissy fight between freeverse & aspyr) it has an impact on the game. (there aren't enough registered users). anyway, the success of this game will have less to do with the quallity of the code (very good) and more to do with how it is marketed and distributed. right now afaik you have to order this on a cd. if you could download at least a scaled-down version (lacking some of the puppets, etc), or a demo, or both, many more people (windows and mac!) would try it.
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