Hoyle Board Games Help

Signing in When you first open Hoyle Board Games, you must sign in. Once a player is signed in, the game keeps track of information for that player until the player's record is explicitly deleted by you. The player who signs in at the initial screen is the "host". Other players, up to six total, may be signed in simultaneously in order to play against each other (this is called "head-to-head" play). At any time, you can examine and modify the list of active players using the Players item in the Game menu. When you are at the game selection screen, the Player list shows the actively signed-in people. When you are playing a game, any computer characters playing with you are added to the list. When you choose a game from the game selection screen, all of the actively signed-in people are seated in the game, possibly along with one or more computer characters to fill out the empty seats. However, if you have more people signed in than can play a given game (for instance, if you have three people signed in and you choose to play chess), one player must be signed-out first. To sign in 1 Select the name of an existing player, or type the name of a new player. 2 Choose the silhouette for the player. To change your player's silhouette, move the scroll bar under the player view area at the right of the Sign In dialog box. 3 To add a new player, type a name in the box. To sign in as an different player, click a name in the player list. To delete a player, click a name in the player list, then click Delete. 4 Click New or OK to accept the player setting. See also Getting started Choosing a game Changing player settings Changing the game atmosphere Head-to-head play Setting game rules and options Starting an Internet game Viewing statistics and current standings CD, hard disk, and graphics mode options Playing without the game CD With Hoyle Board Games, you have the option of playing with or without the game CD inserted in your CD ROM drive. When you play without the game CD, some features of the game are disabled. These include character speech, the cabin and space environments, and several of the animations in the various games. If you start Hoyle Board Games without the CD inserted, and then decide that you would prefer the play with the CD, you must exit out of Hoyle Board Games completely, insert the CD, and then restart the game; inserting the CD in the middle a gaming session has no effect. Graphics modes: Fill Screen and DirectX If you have DirectX installed on your system (Windows 95 users only), you can take advantage of it using the Fill Screen item in the Preferences menu. When this menu item is checked, Hoyle Board Games attempts to use DirectX to display itself in 640x480 resolution with high color quality. This may be desired by users who normally use a higher screen resolution but want the Hoyle Board Games graphics to fill the screen. Because the DirectX graphics modes are not completely comp…