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loud cry of "muggins" so everyone else in the room can hear. If you are new to Cribbage you should not play muggins rules until you are comfortable with the scoring system — the computer will automatically add up your score for you. Next we cut for deal. In this implementation of the game, whoever cuts lowest wins the deal and the first crib. Six cards are dealt to each player. Yours will be displayed on the screen face-up, but the computer can't "see" them. Your first job is to discard two cards into the crib. The dealer may not look at the crib yet, but at the end of the game any scoring combinations it contains count in his favour. So before we go any further with the rules, you need to know what scoring combinations are allowed. The order of cards in each suit runs from Ace (low) to King (high). Each card has a point value equivalent to the number of pips on its face. The court cards count as 10 each. The scoring combinations and the amounts they score are as follows: Fifteen: Any two or more cards totalling exactly 15, score two points. Pair: Two cards of the same rank, score two points. Three of a kind: Three cards of the same rank, score six points. Four of a kind: Four cards of the same rank, score 12 points, Run: Three or more cards in sequence. score one point per card. Flush: Four cards of one suit in the hand, score four points. Flush: Four cards in hand and start card of same suit, score five points. Some examples of a fifteen are 7-8, 5-1:1 end 2-4-9. A hand containing 2-4-4-9 would count fifteen twice, once for 2-9 plus the first 4, and again for 2- 9 plus the second 4; the hand would also score two for the pair (six in total). But a hand 7-4-4 counts fifteen only once because the two 4's must be used once together instead of once in each order to make up the total. They still count two points for the pair, of course. If a player's four hand-cards are 60 AMIGA COMPttTING November 1990 Tactics EN presented with your six two cards the computer discards. cords, study all permutations to see If you play first, avoid laving which four cards will give you the or a 10. Chances are the comp will have either of these also,' fib card, the start card, to be make a total of fifteen and peg 'en into consideration. You will points. Watch out for the comp I . y see this once you have dis- . carded two cards, so you will have I to use educated guesswork (luck) here. Assume the start card will s help your scoring. c Also take into consideration playing first. If it plays a 10, chances are it also has a 5, so if you lay a 5 will get two points for fifteen the computer will pair it off for points itself. o who has the crib. If it is the com- r puter's crib, try not to throw it too e many points. Giving it a pairs of 5's would be close to disastrous. . Unless vou cheat (by selecting R Reveal On) you will not know what e m Try to avoid making the count reach 21 because the computer may hold a 10 or a court card to peg two points for 31. The computer will try very hard to make runs during play, be aware. e of the same suit, he may peg four m points for the flush, or five points bif the start card (see below) also count 15, at which point he pegs two points for bringing the count to 15, and another three points for ematches. forming the three-card sequence 4- r A score is credited for each dif- 5-6, even though they did not actu- t ferent combination of cards that h can be made, Any individual card may be used in different combina- ations or more than one of the same ally appear in that order. If the dealer now adds a 3. he would score four points for a run of four, extending the sequence to t type. So a hand of 7-7-8-9 is t scored cumulatively as follows: 3-4-5-6. Flushes do not count in this h Fifteen 2, fifteen 4, pair 6 and two e runs of three 12. Note that the 7's r not only count together as a pair. but also can each be used in turn e to score two different fifteens and part of the game. The play continues so long as neither player brings the combined count above 31. If you cannot add a card without exceeding this i two different three-card runs total, you must pass by clicking s So that's the points system, now the GO button, whereupon the back to the game. After the discarding. the non- computer must add as many cards as it can without exceeding 31. dealer cuts the pack and the dealer Whoever plays the last card takes the top card of the bottom half and lays it face up on the top. pegs one point, or two if he brings the count to exactly 31. This card is known as the start If either player has cards left card. If it is a lack, the dealer immediately pegs "two for his unplayed, those played so far are turned face down and a new series heels". is played with the remaining cards Before any combinations are up to 31 as before, the first card scored, a little game of cat and being led by the opponent of the mouse is played with the four player who played the last card in cards each player is holding. Starting with the non-dealer, each player in turn plays one of his cards face up in front of himself. As each card is played, the cumulative total of the cards the preceding series. If this still fails to exhaust all the cards, yet another series is started. And so on until all the cards in each player's hand have been played. Now we get the main scoring played so far is displayed. If either round. Starting with the non- player adds a card which forms a scoring combination when considered in conjunction with the previous card or cards consecutively dealer, each player scores for any combinations his hand contains, played. he is entitled to peg the • • • • • • ••• points value for it. For example: Non-dealer plays a 4; dealer plays a 6 making the count 10; non-dealer plays a 5 making the IONIC IiO4411 .••• • • • • •• CRIBBAGE was written in HiSoft BASIC by 29-year-old Kevin Farrow. This program. plus its support files and documentation, is Copyright 0 1 9 9 0 Mt V011 considering the start card as if it were part of his hand. Whoever holds the Jack of the same suit as the start card pegs "one for his nob". After the non-dealer counts his hand, the dealer does the same. Lastly, the dealer turns up the cards in the crib and scores it as if it were yet another hand, again counting the start card as part of it. As soon as one player reaches the target score of 121 (twice round the peg board), play ceases and that player has won the game. 512k users THE first thing Cribbage does on running is open a couple of large, med-res, four bitplane screens. It therefore requires a fair amount of memory. The game has been tested on a vanilla A500, booting from the cover disk, and it runs perfectly well provided all other windows are closed before double clicking its icon. If Cribbage fails to run and you get an error requester, close down all windows except the Cribbage drawer one (including the main disk window), type endcli into the CU window, drag the Cribbage icon on to the workbench and then close down the Cribbage drawer window. Cribbage will now run correctly on a vanilla A500 without problems, unless, of course, you have run something else previously which hasn't given back all of the memory it was using. CONN= NOVO
as if it 'hoever suit as for his mts his t same. up the it as if , again it of it. Taches ?round ad that oes on f large. lens. It )unt of tested om the rfectly ndows licking id you down ibbage !main no the bbage d then trawer proh- 1 havH ously of the VirusX 4.01 IT is a sad fact that more than half of the floppies I get sent with cover disk contributions on are infected with viruses. Mostly Lamer There's no excuse for it these days. Vi.usatakod I Last_HimiTte.lmt N • 6 . 0 1 1 . ? j what with a dozen or more very good virus protection systems around, all of them free. The most famous is Steve Tibbet's VirusX, and here's the very latest official upgrade, version 4.01, direct from Canada, A lot of changes have been made since 4.0, although experienced VirusX users will only notice one difference in operation. The most important change is that the program is now compatible with AmigaDOS 2.0. New users stay around for a wh ile and I'll explain the best ways of using the program. See the release notes on the cover disk for all the details. By far the safest way of using VirusX is to launch it from your startup-sequence somewhere just before LoadWB. VirusX first checks memory to see if anything is there that shouldn't be there, then it will 1\1, a THIS WILL get the old blood corpuscles racing round the arteries rily — Are you a budding musician look- a moody little ditty called Marilyn ing for fame and fortune? If so, by Steve Cooper of Rochester in perhaps the Amiga Computing Kent. cover disk can give you a little Steve uses Noisetracker v1.0 to push up the ladder, You never create his tunes. He's a self- taught know who might be listening to musician, playing drums and guitar. and has been 'tracking for 18 months or so now. After a rt day working in the local Nursery (that's little plants, not little pests) Steve likes nothing more than to sit down at his A500 and create tunes tiliol• 11 using his own sound samples. „ • The tune we have here uses II 1 I fairly standard samples — experienced 'trackers will no doubt H recognise one or two of them — but 1111 Steve also produces compositions o he calls "soundscapes" made up of 1111 synthesised animal noises and snatches from films. t Marilyn, on the other hand, is an i excellent example of how to create o a really together tune using very few samples. A pulsating bass line plus clever slide and echo effects o on the guitar solo show off Steve's expertise with Noisetracker. One or two people I've played it to reckon the female gasp spoils it, but I guess that's just a matter of taste. 11111 1111 open a small window on the Workbench title bar and sit in the background twiddling its bytes until you stick a disk in any drive, whereupon it will check the bootblock of said disk and report on what it finds. If this is what you intend to do, and I strongly suggest you do, then make sure you copy the VirusX program into the C: directory•of your everyday boot-up disk. The one thing VirusX can't check for are viruses that attach themselves to files. Which is why another program, Kill Virus (abbreviated to KV). is distributed in the package. Again, you should copy KV into the C: directory of your boot-up disk so the command is available if you should need to use it. Unlike VirusX, KY cannot be run from the workbench, which is why there is no icon for it in the VIRUSX401 drawer. Double click on KVDOC for details of how to use Kill Virus, The full documentation for the previous release of VirusX is on the disk and is all relevant to the current version. See the 4.01 release notes to find out about the new extras. your music. For instance, Howie Davies got commissioned by a software house after Rock The House appeared on the cover disk. Original or classical stuff only please, preferably in self- con- yir •: all• , 1111 ,,' ! 11 1111 1111 1 „i i ll Keep cool SOME progrlIns notably those that create recoverable ram disks, take over the Amiga's CoolCapture vector for their own use. If you are running such a program, like RRD for example on last months cover disk, then VirusX will immediately warn you that the CoolCapture vector is not zero. Alas, some viruses use this vector to hide themselves and stay alive through a warm reboot, but if you are sure that your CoolCapture vector is being used by something you are running and not by a virus, then it is quite safe to click "No" when VirusX asks if you want to reset it. You can prevent VirusX from checking the CoolCapture vector by using the -c option in the command line. VIRUSX 4.01 is freely distributable but remains Copyright 0 1990 S t e v e Mined modules. If you insist on sending executable tunes, then try not to send the kind that freezes the mouse pointer or uses the left mouse button to quit: Right button or both is better. maRieul) steve cooper' It AMIGA GOMPLIT/NG November 1990 61
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