OpenEuphoria

Re: board games

• Posted by CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net> Oct 06, 2004
• 433 views

Patrick Barnes wrote:
> 
> > >posted by: david <studmeow at hotmail.com>
> > >
> > >So far, several classic games have been covered in Euphoria.
> > >I haven't seen solitaire, but the Reaper's engine should help.
> 
> The Reaper's engine has some problems with it, as well as it's written
> in DOS. Search the archives for TheGame, and you'll find a game I
> wrote based on his engine - I had to redo the drawing functions.
> Apparently in windows there is a DLL used to draw cards for solitaire,
> freecell, and hearts... Does anyone know about this?
C:\windows\system32\cards.dll?

> 
> I think it would be productive if we could make a card-game framework,
> that would make it easy for people to write card games in Euphoria.
> Abstract objects like 'deck', 'table', 'pile', 'hand' into
> quasi-objects with associated routines, and it would make life much
> easier.
And probably wrap cards.dll too.

> 
> -- 
> MrTrick
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