1) New
The options Confidentiality, Restrictions, Sound effects, Cards sound are explained with the Options menu.
The number of deals of a tournament can be up to 99.
The launch can be made through three choices:
• a new simple game.
The score is not updated at the end of such a game.
• a new free deals tournament.
At the end of each game, the score is modified according to the FFT rules.
The dialog above makes it possible to choose, for each of the 4 players, between the computer or the user who will control each position. Moreover the human players have the possibility to type their name.
• a new duplicate tournament.
Each human player plays the same deal in the position of the Taker (while the computer plays the 3 defenders), the winner is the one who will have the best score after several games.
The dialog above allows to choose the number of participants in a duplicate tournament. The computer can also participate (it controls all the 4 players when its turn comes), which makes it possible to play alone in duplicate against the computer. The human players have the possibility of typing their name.
The order into which each participant will play the same deal one after the other will change by rotation with each new deal. In this way, it is not always the same player who begins one deal. If the computer takes part in the tournament, it will always play the last one.
In the three modes (Simple, Free, Duplicate), it is possible to specify the option for the first deal: either random or created using the Editor, or to load a deal saved on a disk. It is the same choice which is proposed to you before each new game in the TOURNAMENT menu.
The random deal is selected by default.
As for the option "Play Editor deal" of the TOURNAMENT menu, the choice "Editor deal" is active only if a deal was actually prepared in the Editor before.
In the case of a duplicate tournament, the prepared or loaded deal may not give the best hand to South, the position of the Taker (random deals will be always like that). In this case, you will have the possibility to modify the deal. The computer will do this by an adequate rotation of the hands. The dealer and thus the opening player will be also modified consequently. You can choose to not modify anything, but in this case the Taker in Southern position will experience boring evenings!
2) Open
Allows to continue a saved tournament.
Important Note:
There is only one type of document LeTarot. Those documents can contain either a single deal (created using the editor), or all the data related to a tournament: all the deals, all the played games, and the score.
What will be loaded depends on which OPEN is used:
• OPEN item of the FILE menu will try to open a tournament. If only one deal is found (saved with the editor), it will begin a Simple game and asks who plays (Human, Computer, North, South... etc).
• OPEN item of the TOURNAMENT menu or in the deals editor will try to open one deal. If the selected file contains a tournament, a dialog allowing to select any deal of the tournament is displayed.
3) Network
For more details, see the chapter Network play.
4) Save / Save as
Allows to save the tournament in progress. The exact state of the current game is also saved. It should be noted that all the deals and the course of all the games of a tournament are recorded.
It is not possible to save during the display of the Dog and the making of the Discard.
5) Abort
After confirmation, the tournament is aborted.
6) Page Setup
Standard printing setup option.
7) Print
Print the current deal and game or else the one that is selected in the score window.
8) Quit
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