500 Cards
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"500" is a trick-taking card game popular in Australia and New Zealand. This implementation offers computer opponents as well as network play via NetSprocket. Rules are included.
The first download is version 2.0.1, from November 1999.
The second is version 1.4, from March 1995.
The third is version 1.0.1, from August 1994 (found on the UMICH CD).
This program was originally written in MacPascal on a Mac Plus. The modern version was written on a Classic and then a Colour Classic using Think C 5.0.4 (after converting the Pascal using CTools). The move to a real, event-driven Application was made possible by the purchase of that most excellent Mac D-I-Y programming book :- Macintosh Programming Secrets (2nd Ed), written by Scott Knaster and Keith Rollin (who's been really helpful over the Net whenever I've contacted (pestered) him (Thanks
). Also of assistance were; NIM:OV, NIM:MTE, lurking on COMP.SYS.MAC.PROGRAMMING and the Inside_Mac DA.
— excerpt: from enclosed "Read Me" doc.
See Also: 500 Supreme
CompatibilityArchitecture: 68k
500 Cards v1.4 works on Mac Plus's running OS 6.0.7 and PowerMac's running OS 7.5 - it should run on anything!
When playing with the AI computer partner, if it is allowed to call the suit, your results can be sometimes good but often poor, leaving you wondering whose side your "partner" is on. Still an enjoyable card game, all the same.
Comments
One of my favourite card games (only beaten by Seahaven Tower)