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© Copyright 1995-1997 by C F S Nevada, Inc.
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A fully-functional Video Poker
program for OS/2

Introduction

 While the idea of video poker games for personal computers is neither new nor unique, CFSPoker is different both in its design and operation. This is the same program that is included on the OS/2 Warp 4 Application CD-ROM.

CFSPoker is distributed with 1,000 bonus credits. The game is unrestricted in its use until your credits diminish to 0. At that time, a key, available from C F S Nevada, Inc. for $34.95, is required to re-enable the game. An on-line order form can be submitted or keys can be ordered directly from C F S Nevada, Inc. via toll free 800 number (North America), or by completing an order form and submitting it via postal mail, E-mail, or FAX.

CFSPoker was designed to have the look and feel of the popular gaming machines except that it has no payout hopper and is for amusement only. A glossary is included that explains all the terms and functions associated with video poker machines including how the experts calculate the correct way to play every hand to its maximum advantage. The following summarizes some of the features of the program that set it apart from previously available programs.

Quick start:
  1. Download CFSPoker.zip - 3MB approx.
  2. PKUnzip or Unzip into directory of your choice - CFSPoker recommended
  3. See README.TXT
  4. Run CFSSetup.EXE (installs program in a directory of your choice and builds a Desktop object to launch CFSPoker)

What is CFSPoker?

 CFSPoker is a commercial quality computer software program for OS/2, including Versions 2.1, 2.11, and Warp versions 3 and 4 (aka Merlin). CFSPoker presentation and operation resembles the current, generally available, International Game Technology, Sigma Games, and Ballys gaming machines located around the world. The currently available version of the program is 1.03.

CFSPoker is fully configurable by the player. Many of the options are summarized below. Full details are contained in the follow-on pages with a Table of Contents and extensive Index available to guide you through this documentation.

CFSPoker can be played using IBM's Voice Type in OS/2 Warp 4 (Merlin). Changes are under way to enhance its use with Voice Type. Notice and availability of these changes will be posted here at http://www.cfsrexx.com/CFSPoker/welcome.htm.

Game selection

There are multiple variations of the three basic types of video poker: Jacks or Better, Joker Poker, and Deuces Wild, distributed with CFSPoker. In addition, you can configure your own variations of the game.

Context sensitive Help

 The Help information is available while you are playing CFSPoker. If you have a question, just set the focus to the object that you want help for and press .

You can select Help & Info from the menu bar and then select Help getting started to launch the OS/2 Information Presentation Facility (IPF) VIEW program. From there, you can select Contents to see the Table of Contents for this document or Index to view a sorted index of the contents of this document.

Audio enabled

 If your computer has a sound card, CFSPoker will optionally use it to play sound files for winning hands.

Redisplaying hands

 If you've ever played a video poker machine, you might have wanted to look back at the cards that were dealt to you before you played the hand or to look at the cards in some hand besides the current hand. Only casino employees can do that with a video poker machine. With CFSPoker you can redisplay the hands from the current session (hands since the game was launched), and optionally for all the hands you have played that exist in the log file.

Customized card backs

 You can personalize CFSPoker with card back images of your choice.

Statistics

 Curious about the number of hands you've won or lost, how many hands per hour you are playing? These figures are available from the statistical display facility either when you terminate the session or on demand.

Log file

 If you enable the log file facility, every hand you play is captured. This information is available in a form that allows you to analyze it, crunch it, or manipulate it any way you choose.

Color

 The background color of the game window can be set to any of 16 colors.

Credits

 There are numerous options which control the way that credits are handled by CFSPoker. Unlike a video poker machine which requires that you buy more credits when your balance reaches zero, CFSPoker allows your credit meter to go minus if you are behind and plus if you are ahead (which hopefully will most often be the case). The credit-related options include:

Whether credits are preserved, game-to-game. Whether credits are preserved, session-to-session. The ability to reset your current credits on demand.

Deal speed

 If you have played video poker machines, you probably noticed that some machines can take forever to deal a hand, while others appear to flash all five cards on the screen at once. The deal speed option can be set on these machines by the casino. Unfortunately, there is rarely any consistency amongst the machines in the same casino.

You can set the deal speed on CFSPoker to a level that you are comfortable with - from clunk, clunk, clunk to the non-delay speed preferred by experienced players.

Availability

 CFSPoker is available from numerous sources including C F S Nevada, Inc.'s Web site, as well as from the OS/2 Warp 4 Application Sampler CD-ROM included in the Warp 4 box.

Warp 4 Application CD-ROM:

CFSPoker can be installed directly from the Application Sampler CD-ROM. Installation is accomplished by running SETUPOS2.EXE (which is also located in the root directory of the CD-ROM).

Complete installation instructions for the IBM CD Showcase Version 1.6 CD-ROM, as it is also known, are included in the README file in the root directory of the CD-ROM.

Downloading:

Complete program:

The complete program can be downloaded now (3.3 MB) or downloaded via anonymous FTP from ftp.cfsrexx.com/pub/CFSPoker.zip (case-specific).

Updates:

If you have a back-level copy of CFSPoker Version 1 installed, you can download CFS-exec.zip (580 KB) or CFS-exec.zip can be downloaded via anonymous FTP from ftp.cfsrexx.com/pub/CFS-exec.zip (case-specific). Simply unzip CFS-exec.zip into your CFSPoker directory replacing all of the included files.

Installation:

PKUnzip or Unzip CFSPoker.zip into a temporary directory of your choice. Run CFSSetup.EXE from that directory to install the program and to create a CFSPoker object on your Desktop for launching the program.
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