Simple Draw poker game

[Helium5793]

This is the game of 5 card draw poker.  It originally written for a bulletin board 'St. Louis Shareware'  This game (and the online shareware) made the BB the most popular one in St. Louis, for several years.  That featured several online games including draw poker.   I have rewritten it in QB64pe. No graphical cards yet, but it is playing well.  Probably has a bug or two, and I welcome comments and bug reports.   The startup.txt files allows you to change some parameters with a text editor.   For whatever it is worth, I am also rewriting the Baccarat game that was online.
  poker_terminal.bas (Size: 13.06 KB / Downloads: 35)
  startup.txt (Size: 67 bytes / Downloads: 28)

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It would be so nice if multiple files were all placed in one .zip to download for a run.

No assemply required, just find the bas source and run, at worse read a readme.txt first for instruction then load and run. (no exe necessary or even desired)

The best programs would not require a separate instruction file to read first. Yeah more work for the creator

[Helium5793]

It would be so nice if multiple files were all placed in one .zip to download for a run.

No assemply required, just find the bas source and run, at worse read a readme.txt first for instruction then load and run. (no exe necessary or even desired)

The best programs would not require a separate instruction file to read first. Yeah more work for the creator

This is the first time I have posted a program, so thank you for helping me with my learning curve.  I also noted that I posted to a subforum of where I meant to post it.   My bad....  anyway I have attached a zip to this reply.
  poker.zip (Size: 352.5 KB / Downloads: 37)

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It would be so nice if multiple files were all placed in one .zip to download for a run.

No assemply required, just find the bas source and run, at worse read a readme.txt first for instruction then load and run. (no exe necessary or even desired)

The best programs would not require a separate instruction file to read first. Yeah more work for the creator

This is the first time I have posted a program, so thank you for helping me with my learning curve.  I also noted that I posted to a subforum of where I meant to post it.   My bad....  anyway I have attached a zip to this reply.

There are some instructions within the game.   The startup.txt just gives some values that you might or might not want to change.  It allows you to start running immediately, and if you don't like the user name or whatever you can change it.

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@Helium5793 Thankyou very much! I look forward to checking out this program.

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Oh rats, your .bas file in the zip is binary???

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Hey how are those colors being set?

I couldn't read the Yellow print on SkyBlue, so I looked to change Yellow's value. It's never set in program?

So I changed all Yellow to Black, now I can read it fine! But where are these color values set??

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Glad I played on barrowed Buckazoid's

[Helium5793]

@Helium5793 Thankyou very much! I look forward to checking out this program.

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and for another mistake.   The zipped copy of the program is a slightly earlier version.  (something weird happened in the zipping process)  The only difference is the instructions are not complete on the zipped one.  The unzipped version is the current version and has the complete directions...
sorry for the confusion.  Both run, but the unzipped .bas file has more complete directions.
John

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The instructions within the .bas program were plenty. At least the zip saved me setting up a folder and copy/pasting the individully downloaded files to it.

A couple of suggestions:
1. when starting the next round clear the bottom section with previous game still being displayed.
That will make it easier to see a new round has been started, withe the new cards dealt after the bet is decided.
2. when I bet more than 500 limit, I got an error message that didn't quite get cleared. A full wash of screen
would also make clear we are waiting for a proper wager to be entered at the next input prompt.

Oh $Color metacommand! Thats when the color names were assigned color values.

[Helium5793]

The instructions within the .bas program were plenty. At least the zip saved me setting up a folder and copy/pasting the individully downloaded files to it.

A couple of suggestions:
1. when starting the next round clear the bottom section with previous game still being displayed.
That will make it easier to see a new round has been started, withe the new cards dealt after the bet is decided.
2. when I bet more than 500 limit, I got an error message that didn't quite get cleared. A full wash of screen
would also make clear we are waiting for a proper wager to be entered at the next input prompt.

Oh $Color metacommand! Thats when the color names were assigned color values.

Sorry  I haven't been paying attention, been busy. 
1. The bottom section is supposed to clear when you start the new game.  Before that it is waiting for you to change your bet.  If you just hit enter it goes on to the next game with the same bet.  I am not sure how clearing it earlier than that would work (What part of the bottom do you think should be erased before placing the next bet?).  The idea was that most people would place the same bet over and over and this would make it easy.
2.  I had not checked this out,  I will. 
3.  It took me a long while to figure out the $color command and find colors that work on my screen.  I am surprised that the yellow doesn't work well for you.  It looks nice on my monitor....The black is more contrasty...