These are the instructions for Video Strip Poker Version 2.56 ============================================================ Requirements =========== You must have Windows. This game requires the Visual Basic runtime module called "VBRUN300.DLL". It is required of all programs written in Microsoft's Visual Basic to run, and it's free. If you don't have it, see the "Where to get VBRUN300.DLL" section in this file. You need a video card capable of displaying 256 colors in 640x480 mode. The High color modes are supported in Video Strip Poker versions <2.56, such as 1.01. If you are using Windows 95, and are running in 640x480 mode, the game screen takes up the full length of the desktop. If your taskbar obscures part of the screen, you will probably want to turn on the taskbar's auto hide feature. How to Play =========== Video Strip Poker is a variation of the standard Jacks or Better video poker machines. It remains to be among the more popular versions of video poker because of its fairly simplicity of play (thankfully, Jacks or Better video poker is probably the easiest to program as well). If you are already familiar with video poker, you can probably get started right away, since Video Strip Poker plays identically to that. If you've never played before, a few words about basic game play might be needed. First off, you need to place your bet. Video poker machines take from one to five coins for each hand. To insert your coins in Video Strip Poker, you simply press a button for the amount you want to bet. The payoffs are proportional to the amount bet in all cases except for the royal flush. For bets from one dollar to four dollars, you win 250 times what you bet if you get a royal flush. However, if you have bet five dollars and happen to stumble across a royal flush, the payoff is 800 times your bet, which is $4000. So for this reason (and the fact that it makes the game move a lot quicker) you should always bet five dollars. After your bet has been placed, you will be dealt five random cards. Since your initial hand will probably not be all that great, you are allowed to trade any or all of your cards for new ones to tryto build a better hand. Video poker assumes that you want to get rid of all of them, so if there are any that you want to hold, you have to tell the computer you want to keep them. To do this, you simply click the cards you want to hold with the mouse. When you do this, the word hold will appear in front of them, telling the computer to leave that one alone. If you click a card to hold, and then change your mind, simply click it again and it will untag it. Once you have decided which cards to keep, you click the DRAW button and all the cards youdid not chose to keep will be replaced, hopefully giving you a much better hand. If you do get a hand that was worth something, the computer will tell you what your hand was, and will add the amount won to your bankroll. If you want to see the payoff schedule there is a "show payoffs" button that will replace the model's photograph with the game's payoff schedule. You can keep the payoff schedule up there while you play the game (at times it may be inappropriate to have nude women on your computer screen), or you can click the "show picture" button at any time. You start out with $100. If you lose this, the game is over. If you play well,and have fairly good luck, your bankroll will get bigger. When you reach $200 and $300, the photo will change each time to something a little more revealing. Since this is the shareware version, the photo will not change any more after $300. You can still continue to play as long as you like however. How to get the Registered version of Video Strip Poker ====================================================== The version you have is the freeware version. It has one opponent and three fairly clean photos. Some of the original photos had to be cropped, or substituted to make it into the freeware version because they were too risque. If you want to get the full version, with morerevealing photos, five stages of undress, and an additional bonus opponent, you can order it directly from me, or order online on Compuserve. To order Video Strip Poker on Compuserve, GO SWREG, and use your credit card. The shareware registration number is 9695. The asking price is $10 plus $2 for shipping and handling. If you promise to give this shareware version to a friend, you also get a free autographed 8"x10" of the game's star, Gina completely naked, suitable for framing and displaying over the fireplace, or wherever you like. GREAT REASONS TO REGISTER ONLINE ON COMPUSERVE ============================================== Want instant gratification? Order from Compuserve! Once your order has been taken in the online shareware registration, I can send you the full version of Video Strip Poker 2.56 to your Compuserve mailbox in a matter of minutes. It would probably be a little longer than that, since I check my e-mail about 10 times a day. But still, it's quicker than any mail order place, and faster thangoing to the store and buying it (if you could go to the store and buy it). All customers who register on Compuserve will get an 8"x10" full color, NAKED photograph of the game's star, Gina personalized and autographed by her (Gina's idea!). She says it's just because she really, really likes people who register on Compuserve. The picture will be sent via the U.S. Postal Service with your game disks. By the way legal reminders ========================== By the way, everything in the game is copyrighted, so if you do give away the shareware version, you must not tamper with any part of it, add anything, or leave anything out. Do not give away the registered version. It's for paying customers only. The picture files are your normal every day Windows BMP files, so you can load them up in any paint program and draw moustaches on the girls if you want. Or you could scan pictures of yourself, you dog, etc. and use those for your own amusement. Do not substitute, modify, or remove any photo included in Video Strip Poker when you distribute it. It must be in the same condition it was in when you found it. Since the photos are all copyrighted, you cannot distribute them except in the context of Video Strip Poker. Do not send the picture files to your local BBS, unless you send them in the whole Video Strip Poker freeware package. See the order.txt for order form, and address. How to contact the author or Gina =================================== You can e-mail the author, Guy Gardner at 102412,2500 on Compuserve, or 102412,2500@Compuserve.com via internet e-mail. You can also write me at P.O. Box 1363, Hamilton, OH 45012 Any messages, job offers, etc. for Gina sent to her at those addresses will be given to her. A pretty big chunk of money from this goes to Gina since she made the game possible. So, any registration fee you paid would go to her as well as to me. Where to get VBRUN300.DLL ======================== The zip file for Video Strip Poker was getting pretty big, so vbrun300.dll might not be included with your copy. If you are a Compuserve user, it is pretty easy to find. If you use the Compuserve File Finder, and do a search for "vbrun300.*" it should find several copies for you to chose from. You should probably download it right into your Windows directory so any other programs that require it will be able to use it. Vbrun300.dll is pretty common, and even if you're not a Compuserve user, you should be able to find it easily. Thanks, Guy