### About Romi

Romi lets you play games against the computer at three different levels. The game is played with two sets of 52 cards and with two wild cards. The purpose of this game is to form groups of three or more cards, which contain either consecutive cards of the same suit or cards of the same number value but of differing suits.

You can play against one to three other players and/or players simulated by Romi by using the Preferences... item of the Romi menu. All the players simulated by Romi play at the same level of difficulty that you have chosen.

Romi is available in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian on the Macintosh, iPhone, iPad, iPod-Touch and on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/ 7.

On the Romi Web page http://www.romi.ca you will find the latest versions of Romi.

What's new in Romi 8.0

- Beginning with Romi version 8.0, a click on a card without moving the mouse, automatically places the card on the board. If you want to place a card in a specific location, you must select the card and move it manually to the desired location without releasing the mouse button.

- Romi cards have been redrawn.

- Remark: Romi is incompatible with the FinderPop extension, if you have installed this non-Apple extension in MacOSX, you will have problems of screen updates and problems with the Romi buttons. If you want to continue to use FinderPop, you can add Romi in the list of the applications to exclude in FinderPop.

Romi 7.2

- A new button has been added to do the same as Clean Up the board of the menu Utilities.

Romi 5.8

- Unregistered users have now 15 days of evaluation for Romi and have access to more options than in the previous unregistered versions.

Romi 5.6

- Romi allows you to play against one to three other players and/or against Romi on your computer.

Romi 5.4

- Romi is now Universal Binary and run natively on Mac-Intel and on PowerPC.

Romi 5.0

- New buttons have been added to the Romi window, they give a more easy access to the most often used functions of the menu Utilities.

Romi 4.8

- Some modifications were made to the strategies used when Romi plays his cards in Expert mode.

Romi 4.2

- The graphic interface of Romi has been redraw for a better look. A new option for playing Romi without any Joker has been added to the demand of several Romi users.

Romi 4.0

- Romi has new shortcuts to form groups of cards on the board by clicking sequentially on each card from your rack or from the board. You can also move two or more cards of a suit by clicking with the Option key on the first card of a suit of cards that you want to move on the board.

- Beginning with Romi version 4.0, only registered users will have access to all the options available in Romi. Unregistered users will have access only to one of the 3 levels and they will not have the option to play against 2 or 3 players.

Registered users will receive an identification and a password that will allow them to register their copy of Romi to have access to all the options of Romi.

To register your copy of Romi, use the Preferences... item of the Romi menu and click on the button "Register Romi".

THANKS

I would address special thanks to my son Charles and Bryan Pietrzak for their help in programming this game and to Pierre Lachance and Jurjen N.E. Bos from Netherlands for their many suggestions and their help in debugging and translating this program in English. I want to thank Marcella Chiovaro, Amalie Rothschild and Claudio Jacomelli for translating this program in Italian, Henrik Huber, Thomas Kraus and Rolf Schindler for the German translation, Adrien Dion, Raúl Padilla Alonso and Ricardo Trenard for the Spanish translation, Harold Bouwmeester and Fred Kelder for the Dutch translation, Gustavo S. Duarte Garcia and Stephen Fleming for the Portuguese translation, Benkt Steentoft, Anna Ekman, Dieter Mitternacht for the Swedish translation, Jon Gunnar Nesse and May Lis Ruus for the Norwegian translation. I also want to thank those of you who send comments and their registration fee.

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