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- Boxcars Casino For Windows 1.0a Mod List
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- The following modifications have been made since version 1.0. Many thanks
- to all who e-mailed with problems or suggestions.
-
- * On slower PCs, the craps puck would get drawn in the wrong place while
- moving out to its point spot, particularly when moving out far (such as
- to the 4 point). This is fixed now.
- * When dialog boxes appeared, the color palette would get corrupted on some
- graphics cards. This shouldn't be a problem any more.
- * Some large payoffs were causing the error message "8, 2" or "8,7." This
- error has been fixed.
- * Many people complained that the game didn't handle large numbers of chips
- well, especially in games with little room for chips (i.e., blackjack).
- Four new high denominations of chip have been added to solve this
- problem. The deposit and table limits have not been changed--otherwise
- the problem would just return with higher chip denominations.
- * Craps now supports "place" bets on point numbers. You can only place "to
- win"--perhaps "to lose" and other types of place bet offered at some
- casinos will be made available in a future version.
- * If you quit the program with an active stake, the stake will still be
- active when you launch the application later. Some people didn't like
- having to go to the bank at the beginning of every session.
- * The words "six" and "nine" are spelled out on the craps layout. More
- like a real casino that way.
- * The way the ball bounces around in roulette has been slightly improved.
- The old way did some funky things every now and then that a ball
- shouldn't be able to do.
- * A 6-player poker game is now an option.
- * Whooops. Five-card stud was totally wrong! The cards that should have
- been up were down, and vice-versa. This has been corrected.
- * In both five-card stud and seven-card stud, the leader of every betting
- round is now the player with the highest hand showing, and leader of the
- first betting round must bet. (As you can probably tell, I'm not a
- regular poker player.)
- * The playing speed is now remembered separately for each of the six games,
- and stays when you quit the program.
- * In blackjack, you can force the dealer to begin by clicking in the card
- area on the right, if you don't want to sit through the usual 3-second
- delay.
- * In roulette and keno, you can skip rapidly through the lengthy animations
- by clicking the mouse.
- * You can now explode a condensed stack of chips into as many chips as will
- fit in a stack, by shift-clicking it. (A condensed stack is one that
- cannot be compressed any further.) Previously, the only way to get large
- amounts of change was by breaking up one chip at a time.
- * The manual files have been updated to incorporate all of these changes.
-
- After releasing version 1.0, we received many e-mail messages like this:
- "I would have registered, but I found a bug," or "I would have registered,
- but there was a feature missing that I want." Please do not let little
- things like this prevent you from registering. We really need the money,
- and we pride ourselves on being very responsive to reasonable requests.
-
- Jeff T. Rodeo
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