Draw Poker
| Filename | draw-poker.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 53.1 KB (54379 bytes) |
| Downloads | 12 |
Draw Poker (originally posted as "Draw Porker") is a casino-style five-card draw poker game for the classic Macintosh by Daniel J. Gardner of the University of Minnesota, uploaded to Info-Mac on Christmas Day 1994. It plays the familiar bet, draw, and showdown loop against the house, in the spirit of a video-poker cabinet rather than a multiplayer table game.
Gameplay
The author describes it simply as "a casino style draw poker game" — you ante, are dealt five cards, choose which to hold, draw replacements, and are paid out against a standard poker hand ranking.
Author
Written by Daniel J. Gardner (gard0048@maroon.tc.umn.edu) at the University of Minnesota and released as freely distributable software via Info-Mac.
Quirks
The submission's email subject line famously read "Draw Porker" — a typo that became part of the file's lore in the Info-Mac archive.
Distribution
Available as game/crd/draw-poker.hqx, BinHex 4.0 encoded. Not to be confused with Crescent Vision Interactive's later Quick Draw Poker, a separate Power Mac shareware title.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
