RE: [DL] Card Dealer

[François Pepin <frpepin@attglobal.net>]

(I'd sent this privately, but I don't have Nick's address)

I don't know VB, but here's an easy way of doing it:
just keep a list of all the cards that have been drawn.

ex: array of 54 numbers, put a 0 by default, a 1 whenever the card is drawn.
puts back to 0 whenever the deck is shuffled.

Though I don't know if there are all that many Marshals who would have a
computer nearby and would want to do. I think it kinds of ruins the
atmosphere a bit as well. Of course in a PBEM it could get a bit more
interesting, especially if you can have a way of having the player draw the
cards and the Marshal knowing the drawing is legit.

François
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]De la
> part de Nick Zachariasen
> Envoyé : 31 mars, 2001 21:01
> À : Deadlands
> Objet : [DL] Card Dealer
>
>
> Well, I've made a card dealer program in VB, but I can't figure out how to
> keep the program from drawing the same card twice.  If anybody would be
> willing to take a look at the source code and offer any suggestions, I'd
> appreciate it.  I figured on submitting it to PEG as a utility mainly for
> Marshals who have to do draws for Mysterious Pasts and VotWW, as well as
> players of Hucksters so they can cast hexes repeatedly without the group
> having to wait for the player (or someone else) to reshuffle the deck.  I
> tried looking at the source for the DLCG, but I just can't figure out how
> James cook did it.
>
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