atari2600land's Blog - Making a video poker game

RSS Bot · September 24, 2018

So after a whole bunch of hours programming, I finally have the beginnings of a video poker game.

It took a while to get it just right. A few problems were in the way. One was that it kept giving me two king of clubs sometimes. I think I have that problem gone now. Another was sometimes it was ignoring pairs. Again, I think I have that problem gone now.

The next step in programming is to make a hand icon and make it allow players to keep cards and then redeal the cards they don't keep and then rank the cards.

I had a very hard time trying to put the code for the ranking in, but I finally made it so the cards it ranks are mine. I had to change my card getting code so that it gave me two values, one between 1-13 and another between 1-4, instead of just one that was between 1-52. This next step will be hard because I again have to make sure it doesn't give me duplicate cards.

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