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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIMA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 1990
MORE NEVER RELEASED SOFTWARE MODULES FOR THE 99/4A
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^by Charles Good
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Lima Ohio User Group
Milton Bradley made two
game modules for the 99/4A
that I have never seen
mentioned in the TI
literature. One is their
dealer's game demo module,
and the other is a
previously unknown game.
When you plug in the
MILTON BRADLEY GAME VISION
module and press any key
from the TI's title screen,
you are presented with the
following menu:
PRESS
1 for TI BASIC
2 for Milton Bradley Games
3 for Connect Four
4 for Hangman
5 for Yahtzee
6 for Zero-Zap
Thats right folks, this
single module contains all
four games. If you press 2,
you get a continuously
running demo of all four
games, one game at a time.
The demo starts out with
MILTON BRADLEY GAME VISION
PRESENTS, and the major
features of the first game
(Connect Four) are presented
in a text display. Then
there is a short demo of the
actual game. This demo runs
for a couple of minutes and
then the major features of
the next game (Hangman) are
displayed as text, etc. etc.
Once all four games are
demonstrated, the whole
thing starts over. By
pressing any key (none of
the keys on my console are
labeled as the "any" key),
you are given the
opportunity to actually play
the game currently being
demonstrated. I have no
idea when this module was
created. There are no dates
or copyright statements in
any of the game demos. It's
easy to see why Milton
Bradley never actually sold
this module. Such sales
would undercut the market
for Milton Bradley games
sold as individual modules.
The other "never
released" module is Milton
Bradley's CARD SHARP. There
is no date or copyright
statement on the title
screen. You get your choice
of two gambling card games
with CARD SHARP, Stud Poker
or Blackjack. Selecting
Stud Poker brings up these
instructions:
Enter Bet----ENTER
End Game-----@@
Show Card----S
Hide Card----H
Fold---------F
Secret Show--X
You are then prompted to
enter the amount of money
you wish all players to have
at the start of the game.
As you may know, Stud
Poker starts with the first
card of each player face
down and the rest face up.
Cards are dealt one at a
time, and each player must
bet in order to stay in the
game and receive the next
card. SHOW allows a player
to peek at his hidden card.
SECRET SHOW reveals ten
cards NOT yet dealt out.
The game always includes
four hands. If there are
fewer than four human
players, the computer plays
the remaining hands, to the
end. If, for example, there
is only one human player and
he folds, the computer
continues to automatically
play the other three hands
until there is a winner.
Sometimes the computer will
FOLD some of the hands under
its control, just as real
players sometimes FOLD.
Selecting BLACKJACK
brings up this submenu:
Enter Bet----ENTER
End Game-----@@
Hit----------H
Stand--------S
Double Down--D
One to four can play at
once. The computer plays
the dealer.
Except for the sound of
cards being shuffled, there
are no sounds or music in
CARD SHARK. There is no
fast action, There never is
in card games. The only
graphics are the display of
the cards. Quite honestly,
there are several BASIC and
XBASIC public domain
programs that play Blackjack
and Stud Poker every bit as
well as CARD SHARK. This is
probably why MILTON BRADLEY
never tried to market CARD
SHARK.
My thanks to Mike Wright for calling my attention to
this software.
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