Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:23:51AM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > > I'm all for it! How about it, anyone else interested? :) > > > > > > > > Me too We could call it gnuice :-) > > > > > > I would have to bop you then... => But it would be under a

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-23 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:23:51AM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > I'm all for it! How about it, anyone else interested? :) > > > > > > Me too We could call it gnuice :-) > > > > I would have to bop you then... => But it would be under a free > > software type license, probably GPL or LGPL r

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 03:24:28PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > > > Why do I get the idea I should bring up once again my hope to gather a > > > > sizable group of people to build a game system which is released under > > > > free license and avail

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-23 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 03:24:28PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > Why do I get the idea I should bring up once again my hope to gather a > > > sizable group of people to build a game system which is released under > > > free license and available to anyone with a web browser and the like? => >

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-23 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 04:30:45PM +0100, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > > > As well, my roommate and I were going to also make a character sheet > > > > program (hence the reason for making the rolldice stuff a library), so > > > > we > > > > could just enter the data, and either save it to a fi

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-23 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 03:22:58PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > As well, my roommate and I were going to also make a character sheet > > > program (hence the reason for making the rolldice stuff a library), so we > > > could just enter the data, and either save it to a file or go ahead and > > >

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 03:22:58PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > > As well, my roommate and I were going to also make a character sheet > > > program (hence the reason for making the rolldice stuff a library), so we > > > could just enter the data, and

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > Why do I get the idea I should bring up once again my hope to gather a > > sizable group of people to build a game system which is released under > > free license and available to anyone with a web browser and the like? => > > I'm all for it! How about it, anyone else interested? :) Me too

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > > As well, my roommate and I were going to also make a character sheet > > program (hence the reason for making the rolldice stuff a library), so we > > could just enter the data, and either save it to a file or go ahead and > > print it out... my roomm

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Stevie Strickland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > if you're interested, i'll dig up the files (i still have them on tape > > > somewhere...i think. dusty old code from the early 90s :-) and mail them > > > to you. i'll GPL them first, so you can do what you want with them. > > > > Cool! I'd always be gla

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 01:22:32AM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote: > > that's the good news. the bad news is that it was all done in turbo > > pascal. however, the algorithms were clean and readable, so easily > > ported to C. > > > > if you're interested, i'll dig up the files (i still have them

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Stevie Strickland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Craig Sanders wrote: > that's the good news. the bad news is that it was all done in turbo > pascal. however, the algorithms were clean and readable, so easily > ported to C. > > if you're interested, i'll dig up the files (i still have the

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Stevie Strickland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Joseph Carter wrote: > > Or if you're really crazy, you could allow optional + or - to affect the > > total, if that were -d12 above the total would be 21 for example.. If it > > doesn't do EVERYTHING by that point, what more can be said? => > > Yes, I think

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Stevie Strickland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Just total, decided that was the important part (if you ask for 3d6, > > you're only interested in the result, unless you're doing something > > like method IV of rolling characters in AD&D (I believe), in which you > > roll 4d6 and take the highest three, in

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:37:18PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Or if you're really crazy, you could allow optional + or - to affect the > > total, if that were -d12 above the total would be 21 for example.. If it > > doesn't do EVERYTHING by that point, what more can be said? => > > Yes, I think

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 02:37:47PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > that's the good news. the bad news is that it was all done in turbo > pascal. however, the algorithms were clean and readable, so easily > ported to C. Hehe, you know there's a GNU Pascal? (package gpc) I haven't looked into it but i

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Joey Hess
Joseph Carter wrote: > Or if you're really crazy, you could allow optional + or - to affect the > total, if that were -d12 above the total would be 21 for example.. If it > doesn't do EVERYTHING by that point, what more can be said? => Yes, I think it needs to include a calculator things like "3

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:04:20AM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote: > rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the > command line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games > like Advanced Dungeons & Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice > rolls. i wrote some

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 02:31:10PM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote: > > Just wondering, what's the output like and does it return for d10 0-9 or > > 1-10? Does it handle "d%"? Is the number of dice optional or must one > > feed it "1d8" for example? Does it return the results of each die or the >

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-21 Thread Stevie Strickland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:04:20AM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote: > > rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command > > line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced > > Dungeons & Dragons[1] and returns the

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-21 Thread Stevie Strickland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Buddha Buck wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command > > line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced > > Dungeons & Dragons[1]

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-21 Thread Buddha Buck
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command > line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced > Dungeons & Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice rolls. > > [1] Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is a re

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-21 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:04:20AM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote: > rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command > line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced > Dungeons & Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice rolls. Just wondering,

Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-21 Thread Stevie Strickland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced Dungeons & Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice rolls. blackjack is a *very* simple blackjack game, which im