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From: lordbah@amusing.roc.servtech.com (Jeff Van Epps)
Date: 2 Jun 1995 18:22:14 -0700
Organization: The act of becoming an organ

<URL:http://amusing.roc.servtech.com/poker.html>

This is an experimental WWW interface to a multiplayer networked poker
game I've had kicking around for the past ten years. It uses "server push"
and tables, so as far as I know Netscape 1.1 is the only browser that'll
work with it.

Instructions:
Go to the above URL, enter a name with no spaces, hit Submit.
On the playing screen when the server asks you to bet, select one
of the radio buttons at the top, enter data if needed, and hit Submit.
When the server asks you to discard, select the toggles next to the
cards you wish to discard, select the Discard radio button at the
top, and hit Submit.
You can Talk or Quit at any time.

Caveats:
This is not at all robust. Initial usage has convinced me that
this is not the medium for asynchronous input multiplayer games.
But I'll leave it up for a while for people to look at.

This is _not_ one of those "video poker" games, it is actual
five-card draw played against up to 4 other players who may be
humans or robots in any mix.

There is a 2-minute timeout whenever the server asks you to do
something (to prevent a dead player from locking up everyone).
If it doesn't hear from you by then it will eject you from the game.

Note also that amusing is a dialup connection. I poll at 16 and 51
minutes after every hour, with a 4-minute idle timeout, and I may
be connected at other times also (on demand). If you don't get
through, try again at another time.

--
Jeff Van Epps lordbah@amusing.roc.servtech.com

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