Welcome to Java Netpoker . The launchpad for the Java Netpoker client is a form that prompts you for a screen name and accountid before joining the game.
If your WWW browser does not support java, you can't play netpoker this way, but you can play via telnet or a compiled client. See the netpoker home page for more details.
The game is Texas Hold'em.
You may want to look at these notes before playing.
As of July 5, 1998, the beta version
is rhp-0.3r.
This version allows 'out-of-turn play', i.e., you can play
out of turn, and the computer will remember your action until it's time
for you to play. This feature can GREATLY speed up play if people start
to use it.
Other available versions are:
Please note that it is trivially easy to start up multiple connections
to the host and simultaneously play several hands at the same table.
This is not clever. It's
CHEATING.
Don't do it.
I have tried to add an informative "Netpoker Error" pop-up when I detect
networking or other errors.
Unfortunately, most errors still go undetected
and there is no feedback to the user. I think it's a bug in netscape's
java implementation, but it's hard to be sure.
It looks as if
you are just "waiting for next game to start",
but you may, in fact, be completely
hung up. If you don't see a game start within a minute or two of getting
the "Waiting for next game" message, there was probably a connection failure.
There are always robot shills employed to keep the game moving.
The first time a you see each card, your computer has to create the
image. This is supposed to happen dynamically, and in the background,
but it seems that most Java implementations are broken in some way, and
you may find that some cards just don't show up on occasion.
Finding workarounds that work for everyone
and don't cause even worse problems
for anyone has been difficult.
If you experience problems, and you want to be helpful, please
try enabling the debugging option in the login form.
This will dump some fairly verbose output to your "Java Console" (in Netscape,
this is accessible from the Options pulldown menu).
The output will probably be cryptic to you, but it may be poetry to me.
Just cut-and-paste it into an email to
bugs@hotpoker.com.
You may wish to continue to use an
an
account you previously established with one of the other netpoker
clients.
If you used the 'telnet' client, enter:
If you have an X resource *borderWidth set, then all your windows
(and sub-windows) acquire an ugly black border. There are lots of
sub-windows in netpoker, and it looks awful. Remove the resource
(or at least specialize it so it doesn't affect your www browser).
I keep a list of
bugs to fix, things to do and ideas to be implemented
here. When I am working on the code, this gets
updated pretty frequently.
Use <ARCHIVE> Tag as of Sept. 24
Netscape users may find downloading the classes a little faster
due to use of the ARCHIVE tag. Others should see no difference.
New Look, as of Sept. 2
The game now runs in a separate "Frame" (i.e., window). If this causes
you problems, please send email! It should be better for those
with small monitors.
Hanging on startup
Missing Cards
Debugging
Reusing an ID created with another client
Guest.YourOldAccountID in the space above.
Note that it's case-sensitive - "Guest" is capitalized and you should
follow whatever capitalization you used before for "YourOldAccountID".
If you used
the 'holdemplayer' client with NETPOKER_IDENTITY set,
then just give your old Identity (no preceding Guest.).
Important note for Netscape3.0 + Linux users
Attempting to execute Java applets under Netscape3.0 will cause your
netscape to crash with a Bus Error unless you are using a fairly old
version of the standard libc library . You can work around this bug
in netscape by obtaining a copy of libc.so5.0.9 or earlier, and creating
a wrapper for your netscape, e.g., move the binary /usr/local/bin/netscape to
/usr/local/bin/netscape.real
and replace /usr/local/bin/netscape with the following script:
#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc.so.5.0.9
export LD_PRELOAD
exec netscape.real "$*"
Ugly borders for X clients
Credits
Other things to do