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- The folling is a list of all versions of Sage Blackjack released.
-
- Release Date Version Fixes/Enhancements
-
- 04JUL95 1.0.7 First release to the public.
-
- 01AUG95 1.0.8 1) Display copyright year in About Blackjack dialog box
- in large font displays.
- 2) Correct problems with repainting hand value in
- large font displays.
-
- 30SEP96 2.7 These fixes/enhancements were made to the full
- version "Sage Blackjack", not all of which are in
- the shareware version:
-
- 1) Enhancement: Added house rule: "dealer takes no
- hole card" which is used frequently in Europe.
- 2) Dynamics for doubled down card rotating 90 deg.
- 3) Display dealer's hands.
- 4) Dynamics for dealer points to active hand.
- 5) Dynamics for players' hands push their bets out.
- 6) New functionality: Previous Hand Statistics.
- 7) Enhancements to Progressive Betting Strategy:
- Ability to advance levels upon losses.
- 8) Enhancements to Count Definition: Ability to
- specify an unbalanced count.
- 9) Show dealer's and all players' hand values before
- collecting their hands.
- 10) Enhancements to Count Training: Ability to flip
- cards two at a time.
- 11) Some improvements to the card graphics.
- 12) Collecting cards dynamics improved.
- 13) Pause before collecting bet (as opposed to after).
- 14) Additional info and error checking added to the
- Tutor Options dialog box.
- 15) Additional info and error checking added to the
- Evaluation Options dialog box.
- 16) Tutor indicator added.
- 17) Evaluation indicator added.
- 18) Bug Fix: Selecting "Clear" in Player Statistics
- caused some settings in other dialogs to default.
- 19) Enhancements to Count Training: Show ace count.
- 20) Bug Fix: Pausing count training (such as by
- selecting a menu item) would cause 2 cards to
- flip in rapid succession after the pause.
- 21) Bug Fix: Progression Stats always reset to level
- 1 upon shuffle (whether specified or not).
- 22) Bug Fix: Repaint problems when training displays
- need repainting while Count Training is running.
- 23) All scrolls now increment and decrement multiple
- times when held down.
- 24) New functionality: Flashcards - a new training
- aid.
- 25) When player exits, reset Progressive Bet and
- Progressive Stats.
- 26) Bug Fix: Exit info used to indicate exit is now
- saved to disk upon saving game.
- 27) Bug Fix: Some Exit Stats wrong if Session Stats
- are not activated.
- 28) Enhancement: Added "Ignore Pushes" option on
- hands lost option on Exit Conditions dialog box.
- 29) Enhancement: Added "Based on money lost in #
- rounds" option on Exit Conditions dialog box.
- 30) Dynamics of cutcard being inserted into the deck
- after suffle.
- 31) Bug Fix: 1 pixel off bug in routine used for
- repainting while zoom box is displayed.
- 32) Enhancement: Calculated point of change
- (interpolated true count value) added to Hand
- Evaluation Range Stats.
- 33) Enhancement: Added "Apply" capability to True
- Count Range for quick setting.
- 34) New functionality: Added "Calculated Strategy
- Tables" to Evaluation Stats.
- 35) Enhancement: Added "Save as ASCII" capability for
- saving evaluation stats to ASCII file.
- 36) Dynamics for dealer collecting players' lost bets.
- 37) Modification to Random Shuffle.
- 38) Dynamics for dealer paying players' won bets.
- 39) Bug Fix: Chip graphics for payoff of players'
- insurance bet 2 times too much.
- 40) New functionality: Sound effects added.
- 41) New functionality: User selectable music (five
- songs in sequence).
- 42) New functionality: Miscellaneous Stats.
- 43) Bug Fix: In House Rules, when Double Down 9, 10,
- 11 or 10, 11 and Allow double down on soft hands
- is selected it would not allow doubling down on
- A,8 and A,9.
- 44) Enhancement: Added "Save as ASCII" capability
- for saving Player Stats to ASCII file.
- 45) Bug Fix: Curruption (graphics problems, etc) when
- using V6 shuffle and > 1 num shuffles specified.
- 46) Animation added for all face cards.
- 47) More animation added in introduction display.
- 48) Bug Fix: In Session Stats, do not include num
- rounds dealt in current session in number of
- rounds dealt.
- 49) Enhancement: Added "Based on num rounds" option
- on Exit Conditions.
- 50) Enhancement: Added Standard Deviation to Session
- Stats.
- 51) Improved "RUNNING SIMULATION..." display.
- 52) Enhancement: Increased number of Progressive
- Betting levels from 8 to 12.
- 53) Enhancement: Added ability to reset to level 1
- when win goal of last level is met in Progressive
- Betting Strategy.
- 54) Enhancement: Increased number of levels in
- Progressive Stats from 8 to 12.
- 55) Added "Slow", "Medium", "Fast" buttons on the
- Dynamics Settings dialog box.
- 56) Bug Fix: Save num times new cards were introduced
- to disk when game saved.