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- THE LAS VEGAS EGA CASINO
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- 1. How to start the program
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- Put the disk in your disk drive, and type "A:", "B:", or other
- appropriate specifier to make that the default drive. Type "casino"
- and then press the Enter key. The program will start and the casino
- menu will appear. Choose the game you want to play from the menu.
- Start the game by pressing the appropriate function key.
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- 2. How to get out of the program
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- You can exit any game by pressing the Escape (Esc) key. Pressing the
- Escape key while in a game will put you back in the casino menu. At
- the casino menu, pressing Escape returns control to DOS.
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- 3. About the program
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- This program was prepared especially for PC-SIG in the Winter of 1987.
- It was written by a professional blackjack dealer turned programmer.
- Every attempt has been made to make the casino games as authentic as
- possible.
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- 4. Sending money to the author
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- In Las Vegas, it is customary to "toke" the dealer, which means
- giving the dealer a token of your appreciation for dealing you good
- cards. In other words, spread the wealth around. I think I have
- dealt you some pretty good cards here. If you agree, please send an
- appropriate toke to your dealer at this address:
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- *******************************
- * *
- * Ted Gruber *
- * Ted Gruber Software *
- * P.O. Box 13408 *
- * Las Vegas, NV 89112 *
- * *
- *******************************
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- Any amount over $10.00 will put you on our mailing list for future
- products.
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- 5. What is The Las Vegas EGA Casino?
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- The Las Vegas EGA Casino is a collection of three favorite Las Vegas
- casino games. Las Vegas Casino Blackjack is a simulation of the
- table game, as played on the Las Vegas Strip. Las Vegas Video Poker
- is a recreation of the popular video poker machines played in
- casinos, bars, grocery stores, bowling alleys, convenience stores,
- airports, and other notorious Nevada hangouts. Las Vegas Dollar
- Slots (MicroBucks) is a colorful visual fantasy.
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- 6. How The Las Vegas EGA Casino was written
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- The Las Vegas EGA Casino was written in FORTRAN. All of the graphics,
- other video output, and music are performed using FASTGRAPH, a highly
- optimized proprietary collection of assembly language routines that
- may be called from several popular FORTRAN and C compilers. FASTGRAPH
- supports EGA, CGA, Hercules and 16-color Tandy graphics.
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- It is possible that we may wish to market FASTGRAPH in the near
- future as the ultimate programmer's graphics library. If you would
- like more information about FASTGRAPH, please contact the author at
- the above address.
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- 7. System requirements for the Las Vegas EGA Casino
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- The Las Vegas EGA Casino runs on IBM PC/XT/AT and compatible systems
- which have a 256K enhanced graphics adapter (EGA) and an enhanced
- color display (ECD). It will also run on the new IBM Personal
- System/2 computers that are equipped with the video graphics array
- (VGA) and an EGA/VGA-compatible monitor.
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- The program was developed and tested using DOS 3.2, but it should run
- on any DOS version 2.1 or above. It requires at least 256K of memory.
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- 8. What is special about The Las Vegas EGA Casino?
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- The Las Vegas EGA Casino was written to take advantage of the fast
- and powerful graphics capabilities of the EGA, such as page swapping,
- direct memory mapping, and a 64-color palette. It is the resolution
- and power of the EGA that make The Las Vegas EGA Casino so beautiful
- and fast.
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- 9. How to play Las Vegas Casino Blackjack
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- At the casino menu level, press F1 to choose Las Vegas Casino
- Blackjack. If you need help, or if this is the first time you have
- played Las Vegas Casino Blackjack, press the F1 key again. You can
- get help at any time by pressing the F1 key. Pressing the F1 key
- will bring up the help menu. From this menu, you may choose several
- options. For example, you may choose to change the size of your
- bankroll or minimum bet, you may force a shuffle, you may change the
- number of decks, or you may view the current status of the deck (how
- many cards are left and the running count). You do not need to
- change any of these things to play the game. Las Vegas Casino
- Blackjack begins with a 52 card deck, a $20.00 bankroll and a $2.00
- minimum bet. All you have to do to bet is press the up arrow key.
- Pressing the up arrow once will bet $2.00, pressing it again will
- increase the bet to $4.00, and so on. You may also decrease the bet
- by pressing the down arrow key. When you are satisfied with the size
- of the bet, press the Enter key to deal the cards.
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- Las Vegas Casino Blackjack will deal cards from 1, 2, 4, or 6 decks.
- A new hand will be dealt without shuffling if there are 6 or more
- cards left in the deck. If all the cards in the deck are used up in
- the middle of a hand, the cards that are not showing on the table
- will be reshuffled and the hand will continue without interruption.
- You may force a shuffle by choosing the "change number of decks"
- option from the help menu (press F1 then F4). You may not force a
- shuffle in the middle of a hand.
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- You may bet from $1.00 to $500.00. You may specify a bankroll of up
- to $10,000. There is no limit on how much you can win.
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- Las Vegas Casino Blackjack deals two cards to the player and two
- cards to the dealer, one of them face down. You must decide whether
- to hit, split, double-down, stay, or surrender before you see the
- dealer's hole card. Press the space bar to hit and Enter to stay.
- Press "D" to double-down and "S" to split. If you want to surrender,
- press "Control-S". If the dealer has an ace showing, you will be
- asked if you want to take insurance. Respond with a "Y" if you want
- to take insurance, or an "N" if you don't.
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- You may hit any hand including a blackjack, and you may double down
- on any hand including a blackjack. If you have a pair of cards which
- have the same value, you may split them. You may resplit pairs up to
- four times. Aces that are split receive only one card each and may
- not be resplit. You may double-down after you split. You may
- surrender your first two cards if the dealer does not have a
- blackjack (late surrender).
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- The dealer will hit until at least a soft 17 is showing. If the
- player busts, the dealer will display the hole card, but will not
- take any hits.
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- Las Vegas Casino Blackjack displays information about your bankroll,
- your bet, and your winnings in the upper right corner of the screen.
- It also displays a little blue rectangle which represents the number
- of cards remaining in the deck. When the entire rectangle is dark
- blue, the cards have just been shuffled. When the top 1/4 of the
- rectangle is light blue, then about 25% of the cards have been dealt
- out, and so on. If you want to know the exact number of cards left
- in the deck, you need to press F1 and then F5. To return to the game,
- press F1 again.
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- For card-counters, and those who would be card-counters, you may
- check the status of the deck at any time. Las Vegas Casino Blackjack
- keeps track of two popular card counts, Stanford Wong's High-Low
- count and Arnold Snyder's Zen count. The idea is for the player to
- practice counting cards in his head and then use Las Vegas Casino
- Blackjack to check his accuracy. To get the running count at any
- time, press F1 and then F5. To return to the game, press F1 again.
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- For more information about the rules of Blackjack and card-counting
- strategies, see the Blackjack references.
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- 10. Blackjack references
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- "Professional Blackjack" by Stanford Wong (Pi Yee Press, Morrow &
- Co., 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981)
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- "Blackbelt in Blackjack" by Arnold Snyder (RGE, 1980, 1981, 1982)
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- To order these and other fine books on gaming, contact:
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- The Gamblers Book Club
- 630 South 11th Street
- P.O. Box 4115
- Las Vegas, Nevada 89127
- (800) 634-6243
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- 11. How to play Las Vegas Video Poker
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- At the casino menu level, press F3 to choose Las Vegas Video Poker.
- Use the insert key or the up arrow key to insert coins. Press Enter
- to deal five cards. If you insert five coins, you don't need to hit
- Enter. The cards are dealt automatically after the fifth coin. Use
- the first five function keys to hold the cards you want to keep. If
- you change your mind about keeping a card, you can press the function
- key again to "unhold" the card. After you decide which cards to
- keep, press Enter. The cards you didn't hold will be discarded, and
- they will be replaced by new cards. The game will calculate your
- winnings. This game is simple and fun to play. It is the favorite
- of Las Vegas locals and millions of tourists. Las Vegas locals and
- millions of tourists can't be wrong.
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- 12. How to play Las Vegas Dollar Slots (MicroBucks)
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- At the casino menu level, press F3 to choose Las Vegas Dollar Slots
- (MicroBucks). When the slot machine appears, press a key. Any key
- except the Escape key will make the reels turn. The Escape key will
- return you to the casino menu. The NumLock key will toggle the music
- off and on. Have fun!
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