Visual Basic Poker Code
The classic book BASIC Computer Games, published by Creative Computing, inspired a generation of programmers. The games were written by many people, and compiled by David H. Ahl. The fabulous illustrations accompanying each game were done by George Beker.
This site lists a bunch of Poker Hand Evaluator libraries and gives a few details about each of them. Most of them are for 5 card hands, but there is at least one for a 7 card hand called The Snezee7 Evaluator.Plus the site give a great overview of the different techniques and algorithms used to analyze poker. Poker game in visual basic The following Visual Basic project contains the source code and Visual Basic examples used for poker game. Just another game, but it does illustrate use of control arrays and other concepts for beginners. Code to Solve Texas Holdem Poker Hand. Teemuuu 11-Aug-09 9:50. Teemuuu: 11-Aug-09 9:50. Visual Developer - Visual Basic 2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009. I am looking to create a video poker card game using visual basic.I have limited knowledge of visual basic 8 but was very curious about visual basic 10. View 4 Replies VS 2008 - Game Poker Hands Database Mar 29, 2009.
I've included all the games here for your tinkering pleasure. I've tested and tweaked each one of them to make sure they'll run with Vintage BASIC, though you may see a few oddities. That's part of the fun of playing with BASIC: it never works quite the same on two machines. The games will play better if you keep CAPS LOCK on, as they were designed to be used with capital-letter input.
Poker Basic Strategy
The table below includes both links to the pages of the book at atariarchives.org, and the source code for each game. I obtained most of the source code from classicbasicgames.org, with the exception of Civil War and Super Star Trek, which I entered myself. The descriptions mainly come from an earlier edition of the book, 101 BASIC Computer Games, via the scans at digibarn.com. All book content is provided with the express consent of David H. Ahl, editor.
Basic Poker Rules
You can download the entire set of games as a tarball (bcg.tar.gz) or a ZIP archive (bcg.zip).