****  THE Dot2Dot GAME ****

 INTRODUCTION:

    This is an Amigatized implementation of an old standby known as Dots.
 This game (probably) had its origin in small diners and restuarants
 around the country as patrons tried to find some way to pass the time
 while waiting for their meals to show up.  The backs of millions of 
 placemats have been the usual habitat for this game, but now you can play
 it at home in full color and sound!
 
    The playing field is a set of dots arranged in a 9 X 6 grid on a finely
 crafted wood grained board.  This yields a total of 48 squares that may be
 created by placing connecting lines between the dots. The object is rather
 simple; to capture as many squares as possible by being the player to place
 the last line needed to complete a square.  The person with the most 
 squares at the end is the winner.

 
 GAME PLAY:

    To begin play, click on the large Dot2Dot.run icon.  The first screen
 that appears, allows both players to select an appropriate initial to
 indicate who owns which squares on the board.  Each player selects their
 intial by simply pointing at it and clicking on it. 

     Next, the game board will be displayed with the title scrolling across
 the top of the screen.  Clicking the LEFT mouse button once will stop the
 scrolling and randomly choose one of the two players to go first.  The 
 intial of the current player is always displayed in the box on the top left
 of the screen.

    On each turn, the current player will connect ANY two dots available 
 dots together by clicking on the first dot and then clicking on the second
 dot.  A green line will be drawn to connect the selected dots.  If this 
 line is the fourth line that completes a square, the current player's
 initial will be placed in the square and that player earns another turn.
 If a square is not formed, play continues with the next player.

    If a player selects a dot, and then changes his/her mind, the selected
 dot may be UNselected by clicking on it once again.  This UNselecting of 
 the first dot MUST be done before the second dot is clicked on, however.
 Once the second dot has been selected, there is no UNDO.

    There is one menu with two choices: 1) toggle the sound ON / OFF and 
 2) Quit.
 
    At the completion of the game, when all squares have been completed, the
 player with the most squares will be identified and the option to play
 again will be presented.  We hope you enjoy being able to play anytime
 you want, instead of just before meals.

                                            Steve Michel
                                            John Czerwionka