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From: nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Bridge
Message-ID: <2194@harlie.tegra.COM>
Date: 24 Mar 91 23:53:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.204856.4423@news.nd.edu>
Reply-To: nad@harlie.UUCP (Nancy Durgin)
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
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In article <1991Mar24.204856.4423@news.nd.edu> rsn@chopin.helios.nd.edu (Ross Niebergall) writes:
>Does anyone know of a version of Bridge for the Amiga, and if so
>how good is it?  In particular, I am just learning to play Bridge,
>and want to get something that will teach me the skills, and also
>be challenging when I get better at it.
>
>A3000 compatibility is essential.

BRIDGE 6.0 from Artworx is the only Bridge program for the Amiga that
I am aware of.

I wouldn't say this is a *good* implementation, but it is adequate.  It
doesn't know any even moderately fancy conventions (5-card Majors, Strong 2's,
Blackwood, Stayman are about it...).  It also has a few bugs that cause it
to go out to lunch (hang) or get a garbled display, etc.  Also, as a player,
it does some amazingly stupid things.

It has a few options for specifying a minimum point count, replaying
hands, duplicate scoring, etc.

I haven't actually played any bridge program on any other computer, so
I can't compare directly, but I certainly could think of lots of
ways to improve this one.

It does run on the A3000, but only under 1.3 (at least the last time I
tried it -- it could be that it does work under later versions of 2.0x).

At least the game has been slowly improving.  I bought Bridge 4.0, and
returned it to the dealer because it was so bad.  Bridge 5.0 was an
improvement (I kept it, but then my master copy-protected disk went 
bad...).  Bridge 6.0 is not copy-protected and installs on a hard disk,
so at least they are trying...

        Nancy



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