Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1

Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1
First release	1989
Also known as	Hoyle 1
Developed by	Sierra
Published by	Sierra
Distributed by	Sierra
Platforms	MS-DOS, Macintosh
Resolution	320x200, 16 colors
Engine	SCI
Support	Since ScummVM 1.2.0
Available for Purchase	No

Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1 is the first in the Hoyle series of licensed computer game simulations of popular non-electronic games. The first volume featured the multi-player card games Crazy Eights, Old Maid, Hearts, Gin Rummy, Cribbage and Klondike. Several computer-AI controlled opponent players were based on developers at Sierra, and characters from previous Sierra adventure games.

Installation

Required data files

For more information on how ScummVM uses game data files, see the user documentation.

WARNING: Unlike other games, SCI games have significant variation in the naming of required files.

They also can load supplementary files by resource maps, so it is recommended to keep all files in the game data directory from the CD.

Unless otherwise specified, do NOT remove any file from the directory, even if it does not appear on the following list, since this will likely cause weird bugs.

Copy all files to the game directory. Some games need additional work:

Floppy games with RESOURCE.p01, p02, etc. and/or RESOURCE.a01, a02, etc. files

• Concatenate all RESOURCE.p0* files to RESOURCE.000 (e.g. copy /b RESOURCE.p0* RESOURCE.000 on Windows, or cat RESOURCE.p0* > RESOURCE.000 on *nix).
• Concatenate all RESOURCE.a0* files to RESOURCE.AUD (e.g. copy /b RESOURCE.a0* RESOURCE.AUD on Windows, or cat RESOURCE.a0* > RESOURCE.AUD on *nix).

External links

• Wikipedia article on Hoyle's Official Book of Games series
• MobyGames entry for Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1
• Screenshots (Hoyle's Official Book of Games Series)