### About Romi

Romi lets you play games against the computer at 3 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 3 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 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. When you win a game, the penalty score given to Romi is the maximum score of the players simulated by Romi.

Romi is localized for English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and Swedish languages.

What's new in 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. Also, some minor corrections have been made.

Romi 4.8

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

Romi 4.6

- The animations in Romi have been reprogrammed, especially when Romi plays and when you move cards on the board.

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 double-clicking sequentially on each card from your rack or from the board. You can also move two or more cards of a suit by double-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 simulated by Romi.

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. After your registration you will receive a password that will be valid for all forthcoming versions of Romi. All future versions of Romi will be available free to registered users.

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 and Amalie Rothschild from Italy for translating this program in Italian, Henrik Huber and Rolf Schindler for the German translation, Adrien Dion for the Spanish translation, Harold Bouwmeester and Fred Kelder for the Dutch translation, Gustavo S. Duarte Garcia for the Portuguese translation, Benkt Steentoft and Anna Ekman for the Swedish translation. I also want to thank those of you who send comments and their registration fee.

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