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From: nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Bridge
Message-ID: <1559@joker.tegra.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 90 14:40:38 GMT
References: <1990Oct8.211631.18117@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Reply-To: nad@joker.UUCP (Nancy Durgin)
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In article <1990Oct8.211631.18117@math.lsa.umich.edu> dbuchtal@math.lsa.umich.edu (Dave Buchthal) writes:
>Is there a decent game of Bridge available for the Amiga?  I know,
>not the best way to show off the graphics and sound, but I'm trying
>to learn how to play.  Is such a beast available?
>
>Dave Buchthal


The only Bridge game I know of for the Amiga is Bridge 6.0, by Artworx.
This has been through several revisions (Bridge 4.0 and Bridge 5.0), and the
latest at least is not copy-protected, and doesn't have bugs that
cause it to crash.

It plays a pretty horrible game of bridge, though.  Alright for fooling 
around, but don't expect it to act like a real person (even a novice) would
act.  It does incomprehensible things.  Things like: Bidding a suit 3 times
when it only has 4 of them.  Not returning to partner's first-bid major suit,
even though it has 4 card support.  As opener, doing a simple raise as
a rebid (The auction went 1S-P-2S-P-3S-P-P-P) when I evaluated his hand
at 26 points (20HCP).

There are settings for requiring certain types of hands (13+ points, 20
points, etc), options for replaying a hand, a "duplicate" option (where
you play the same hand from both sides), etc.

The interface and graphics are adequate, but not spectacular.  The game itself
seems to be written in compiled Basic (earlier versions were in uncompiled
Basic, and were pretty slow...).

I haven't played any other computer bridge game, but surely this isn't
the best?

	Nancy

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