SARC v1.0 - Spades Artificially Reasoning Computer
By Chris Hiszpanski, 08/16/2001

I. Rules - A copy of the rules is available at http://www.pogo.com and many other places on the internet. I have added some non-standard rules though: the 2 of clubs leads and the lowest club must be played on the first trick, bags are worth +1 but -100 for an accumulated 10 bags, game continues to 500, and spades cannot be lead unless broken.

II. Bugs - Version one should be stable. This does not mean that the ai is perfect though. It will not try to adjust its playing when it has bags nor will it try to break an opposing nil. Sometimes it will overtrump its partner. These are not bugs per se since they have not been programmed yet and will be implemented in verison 2.0. Nevertheless SARC can play satisfactorily without them. If you find a true bug though, such as the game crashing, please report that to me.

III. Progress - This readme.txt file may be out of date from the time it was written. For updated information about the project, please view http://sarc.sourceforge.net.

IV. Contact - To contact the author, please send mail to apparatus@users.sourceforge.net or visit http://sarc.sourceforge.net

V. License - This source code is protected under the GNU General Public License.

VI. Compiling - The allegro library and djgpp (or equivalent compiler) are needed. Look at http://www.allegro.cc and on http://www.google.com for djgpp.

Winsarc has been compiled using MingW32 1.0.1 and allegro 3.9.4.1
