Pyramid, a Patience Card Game for the Psion Series 3
©1993 J Cade Roux
Released under the GNU General Public License v2.
To install Pyramid, copy PYRAMID.APP it to any directory (like \APP\) and
install it from the system screen. Alternatively, rename it
PYRAMID.IMG, and copy it to the \IMG\ directory, or any other directory
(such as a games alias) referenced by an alias of RunImg.
This is the Pyramid patience card game. The tableau is in the form of a pyramid with seven rows. The object of the game is to remove as many cards from the pyramid as possible.
Only those cards which are not overlapped by other cards can be removed. A pair of cards which total 13 in value, or a singleton King may be removed.
The face down pile is the hand which is turned up one card at a time onto the talon pile, of which the top card may also be used to make a match.
The talon pile is not recycled. The Kings and pairs are discarded.
The keys used to control Pyramid are as follows:
Left and Right arrow keys move the pointer to the card to be lifted (the arrow point diagonally up from the left of the card). The space bar is pressed, and the card is picked up (unless it is a King, in which case it is immediately discarded). Then the card is moved to the destination and the space bar is pressed to attempt to match the card.
If a match is made the two cards will be discarded.
Return draws a single card from the face down hand if the player is currently not holding a card. Escape aborts a move before dropping.
The rules are simply as described above. Pressing the space bar when on the face down pile flips a card onto the talon pile. The talon pile may not be recycled.
Development tools used included:
On the PC:
- The Psion SIBO SDK with TopSpeed C compiler
On the Amiga:
- DeluxePaint IV - the only paint program I've ever used which is worth running. Certainly light years ahead of Paintbrush - the only other development tool I have used to make graphics for Psion games.
Pyramid was written completely with PLIB, HWIF, and WLIB functions, and, as such, is not portable (even to older SIBO machines, unless you want to rewrite all the HWIF sections) in any way.
It will run fine on later SIBO/EPOC16 machines, such as the Series 3a/c/mx and Siena.
Currently no undo other than cancelling the current move.
1.0a: Initial release