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- | WELCOME TO BLACKJACK! |
- | = YOUR KEY TO WINNING PLAY = |
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-
- Please be sure that you received all of the files listed in PACKING.LST.
-
- If any files are missing, or if you encounter problems with your diskette
- PLEASE CONTACT THE COMPANY WHERE YOU OBTAINED THE DISKETTE.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- If this does not resolve the problem send notification stating where
- you obtained BlackJack! to:
- Glencoe Computing
- Donald L. Granger
- 2025 Wakefield Lake
- Glencoe, MO 63038-1210
-
- If you received this program on a CD-ROM you must first copy all of
- the files to your hard disk.
-
- INSTALLATION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The installation procedure for BlackJack! is quite simple.
- You will need about 360K of available disk space on the hard drive on
- which you plan to install BlackJack!
-
- BlackJack! can be run directly from diskettes, but hard disk is better.
-
- BlackJack! will not run directly from CD-ROM.
-
- <Enter> means press the Enter key
-
- First create a directory on your hard disk
- example: MD BJ <Enter>
- Next switch to that directory
- example: CD \BJ <Enter>
- Copy the files from the diskette
- example: COPY A:*.* <Enter>
- (substitute your source drive's letter for A: as needed)
-
- YOU'RE READY TO GO
-
- To run the program simply type BJ <Enter> from the DOS prompt.
- (remember to make sure you are in the BJ directory first)
-
- To print the documentation type PRINTBJ <Enter> at the DOS prompt.
-
- I hope you enjoy the program.
-
-
- COMPATIBILITY NOTES
-
- - Hardware
- BlackJack! requires EGA, VGA or Hercules Compatible graphics.
- BlackJack! will not work with CGA video. BlackJack! runs from
- either floppy or hard disks.
-
- - Windows 3.x
- BlackJack! should run without problems as a DOS application under
- Windows 3.x. It has been tested on 386 & 486 systems where the only
- side effect has been slower operation. The following files are
- provided for Windows support:
-
- BJ_386.PIF - For use with Windows 386 enhanced mode
- BJ_STD.PIF - For use with Windows standard mode
- BJ.ICO - An icon for BlackJack!
-
- The PIF files assume that BlackJack! is installed on the C: drive
- and is located in a directory named BJ. You can use PIF EDIT
- (supplied with Windows) to modify the path in the PIF files
- as needed.
-
- - VGA systems using VGA monochrome monitors.
- If you experience an error regarding the graphics hardware on
- startup, try running the DOS command
- MODE CO80
- prior to loading BlackJack!.
-
- - Peculiar operation when numbers are involved, or system lock-up.
- Some computers errantly indicate the presence of an 80x87 math
- coprocessor, others, particularly some '386 systems with 80287 math
- coprocessors, cause errors. If you experience system lock-up
- or peculiar results when numbers are involved try issuing the
- follow command from the DOS prompt.
- SET 87=N
- It is important that no spaces be included in "87=N".
-
- The included batch file BJ87.BAT will automate the above fix.
- In place of invoking BlackJack! with the BJ command just use
- BJ87. When you exit BlackJack! the 87 variable will be cleared
- from the enviornment.
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-
- Change history & new features:
-
- New features & changes in V-2.31
-
- True Count base:
-
- Most systems determine the true count by dividing the running count by
- either the number of full or half decks remaining to be played, with
- full being the most common. BlackJack now provides for both methods.
-
- The setting is made from Edit User Count System in the SETUP menu.
- [F]ull / [H]alf TC Decks
- Press [F] for full deck systems, [H] for half deck systems.
- If you are not sure, use full decks.
-
- Some confusion can arise from this. For example, a full deck count
- system may still suggest dividing by fractional decks as in 2 1/2. A
- half deck count system would divide by 5 in this case (5 half decks
- remaining). You cannot interchange the two! Be sure you know what
- your system is based on. Some examples of half deck systems are Uston
- Advanced Point Count and the Revere Advanced Point Count.
-
- Regardless of the system used, BlackJack! calculates the true count to
- 1/4 deck accuracy. Don't confuse accuracy with count system basis.
-
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-
- Well, not exactly a new feature, but thanks to the help of Rocky Rosa
- BlackJack! now very accuratly shows the play advantage. This number,
- expressed as a percentage, indicates the rate of return you can expect
- from your level of play. For example, if the advantage is +1.35% you
- can expect to win $1.35 for every $100 wagered. Play advantage is
- very helpful when evaluating new strategy or betting systems.
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- New features & changes in V-2.40
-
- Full support of the Red-7 counting system
- Red-7 Changes to BlackJack!
- Setup Menu: Active Count System
- Toggles among User, +/- & Red-7
- When Red 7 is active "Use True Count" is deactivated and the Red 7
- strategy changes are made to the currently active strategy table.
-
- The Count Based Wager table
- When used with Red-7 count the "Card Count" value is relative to the
- pivot point. For example, the wager you want placed when the count is
- equal to the pivot point use 0 for the card count.
-
- Basic Strategy Drill & Casino Play
- When Red-7 is active the true count is replaced by the count value
- relative to the pivot point. Examples of the display: Pivot +1,
- Pivot -3.
-
- Please see the user manual for full details of Red-7 and its
- implementation in BlackJack!.
-
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- Depth of Deal: Casino Definition - Edit Casinos
- Controls the reshuffle point - how deep into the deck or shoe the deal
- goes. Can be set to Deep, Medium, Shallow, Random or End.
-
- Reshuffle Point
- Examples:
- 1 Player, 4 Deck Shoe 2 Player, 2 Deck Shoe
- Cards left at shuffle Cards left at shuffle
- RANDOM 10 - 100 RANDOM 15 - 50
- SHALLOW 84 - 100 SHALLOW 42 - 50
- MEDIUM 48 - 84 MEDIUM 24 - 42
- DEEP 10 - 24 DEEP 15 - 24
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-
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- New features & changes in V-2.41
-
- One Handed Play:
- You can now use the numeric keypad for just about all of
- BlackJack!'s play options. With [NumLock] ON the following keys
- behave as specified:
- [1] = Hit
- [2] = Double
- [3] = Split
- [4] = Yes
- [5] = No
- [6] = Surrender
- [Enter] = Stand or enter as needed.
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- Revised Progressive Wagering:
- BlackJack! now supports winning, losing, or a combination of both
- styles of progressions. The additional choices are controled with a
- new menu. From the set up menu press [7] or [P] for the Edit Progressive
- Wagering menu.
- ┌────Edit Progressive Wagers─────┐
- │ │
- │ 1 - Winning │
- │ 2 - Losing │
- │ 3 - Progression Type [Both] │
- │ │
- └────────────────────────────────┘
- Selections 1 & 2 work as described in the user manual, you enter the
- wager you want to make for each level of the winning or losing
- progression. Selection 3 toggles among the available progression
- types... Winning, Losing, or a combination (both).
-
- Here's how it works.
- When Progression Type is set to either WIN or LOSS the progression
- acts as usual. The Opening Bet is used as long as you are not on a
- streak of the selected type, as soon as a streak begins the
- progressive wagers follow the table. When the streak ends your bet
- returns to the Opening Bet amount.
-
- When Progression Type is set to BOTH, both tables are active. Since
- you will always be either on a winning or losing streak the Opening
- Bet amount is only used for the first wager of the session. Any
- other time the streak length will be at least 1.
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- Streak Lengths Displayed In Status Box:
- The status box now displays the current streak length for each
- player. The position of the numbers corresponds to the player's
- table position. For example:
- Streak Length -2 1 4
- means that player #1 has a streak of 4 wins, player #2 has a streak
- of 1 win and player #3 has a streak of 2 losses.
-
- Basic Strategy:
- To correct a conflict, the basic strategy for 5-5 will always be treated
- as a "hard" 10 rather than using the pair entry in the strategy table.
-
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- New features & changes in V-2.50
-
- Statistics
- All statistics are presented as both numeric counts and percentages
- where appropriate.
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- | DO NOT MIX ANY FILES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS ! ! |
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- |*** To print this file type COPY README.ME PRN at the DOS prompt. ***|
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