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 print it

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 file or go ahead

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? = I'm

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 available to anyone

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? :) aolMe too/aol 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 rewritten

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? :) aolMe too/aol We could call it gnuice :-) I would have to bop you then... = But it would be under a free

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 total

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 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 3d6 +

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 it

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 it

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 ADD (I believe), in which you roll 4d6 and take the highest three, in which

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 it needs

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 them on

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 on tape

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 glad to look at

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 roommate has

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? :) aolMe too/aol

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

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,

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 registered

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] and

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 result