     CFSPoker - A fully-functional Video Poker program for OS/2
                 (c) 1995-96 by C F S Nevada, Inc.


Introduction
============

     While the idea of video poker games for personal computers is
neither new nor unique, CFSPoker is different both in its design and its
operation.

     CFSPoker is distributed with 1,000 bonus credits. The game is
unrestricted in its use until your credits diminish to 0. At that time,
a key, available from C F S Nevada, Inc. for $34.95, is required to re-
enable the game. See "Registration Instructions" in CFSPoker.HLP or
CFSPoker.INF for ordering information and an order form.

     The following describes some of the features of the program that
set it apart from previously available programs.


What is CFSPoker?
=================

     CFSPoker is a commercial quality computer software program.
CFSPoker presentation and operation resembles the current, generally
available International Game Technology, Sigma Games, and Ballys gaming
machines found around the world.

     CFSPoker is fully configurable by the player. Many of the options
are summarized below. Full details are contained in the CFSPoker.INF
file which can be viewed from within the game or by double-clicking on
the CFSPoker.INF file icon in the CFSPoker directory.

  Game selection
  --------------

     There are multiple variations of the three basic types of video
     poker: Jacks or Better, Joker Poker, and Deuces Wild, distributed
     with CFSPoker. In addition, you can configure your own variations
     of the game.

  Context sensitive Help
  ----------------------

     The Help information is available while you are playing CFSPoker.
     If you have a question, just set the focus to the object that you
     want help for and press <F1>.

     You can select Help & Info from the menu bar and then select Help
     getting started to launch the OS/2 Information Presentation
     Facility (IPF) VIEW program. From there, you can select Contents to
     see the Table of Contents for this document or Index to view a
     sorted index of the contents of this document.

  Audio enabled
  -------------

     If your computer has a sound card, CFSPoker will optionally use it
     to play sound files for winning hands. (see Notes concerning OS/2
     Warp 4.0 below).

  Redisplaying hands
  ------------------

     If you've ever played a video poker machine, you might have wanted
     to look back at the cards that were dealt to you before you played
     the hand or to look at the cards in some hand besides the current
     hand. Only casino employees can do that with a video poker machine.
     With CFSPoker you can redisplay the hands from the current session
     (hands since the game was launched), and optionally for all the
     hands you have played that exist in the log file.

  Customized card backs
  --------------------=

     You can personalize CFSPoker with card back images of your choice.

  Statistics
  ----------

     Curious about the number of hands you've won or lost, how many
     hands per hour you are playing? These figures are available from
     the statistical display facility either when you terminate the
     session or on demand.

  Log file
  --------

     If you enable the log file facility, every hand you play is
     captured. This information is available in a form that allows you
     to analyze it, crunch it, or manipulate it any way you choose.

  Color
  -----

     The background color of the game window can be set to any of 16
     colors.

  Credits
  -------

     There are numerous options which control the way that credits are
     handled by CFSPoker. Unlike a video poker machine which requires
     that you buy more credits when your balance reaches zero, CFSPoker
     allows your credit meter to go minus if you are behind and plus if
     you are ahead (which hopefully will most often be the case). The
     credit-related options include:

     o    Whether credits are preserved, game-to-game.
     o    Whether credits are preserved, session-to-session.
     o    The ability to reset your current credits on demand.

  Deal speed
  ----------

     If you have played video poker machines, you probably noticed that
     some machines can take forever to deal a hand, while others appear
     to flash all five cards on the screen at once. The deal speed
     option can be set on these machines by the casino. Unfortunately,
     there is rarely any consistency amongst the machines in the same
     casino.

     You can set the deal speed on CFSPoker to a level that you are
     comfortable with - from clunk, clunk, clunk to the non-delay speed
     preferred by experienced players.

      CFSPoker is available from electronic repositories, including
anonymous FTP from C F S Nevada, Inc.'s World Wide Web server and FTP
server, Hobbes (hobbes.nmsu.edu) and Walnut Creek (ftp.cdrom.com).
CFSPoker is also available on the Family Sampler CD-ROM which
accompanies IBM's OS/2 Warp 4.0 (Merlin). The program can be installed
from the Family Sampler CD-ROM to any version of OS/2 (2.1 through 4.0)
by running CFSSetup.EXE from the CFSPoker directory on the CD-ROM.

     The program is distributed with 1,000 video poker credits. After
you have exhausted the credits, the game will lock and must be
registered with C F S Nevada, Inc. An electronic key to unlock the game
will be available for a retail price of 34.95 USD. Keys will be
available via postal mail, FAX, and secure electronic mail. Registration
will allow future unrestricted use of the game.

     At various times there will be bonus awards for Royal Flushes made
with CFSPoker. Check the World Wide Web site at www.cfsrexx.com for the
latest bonus awards and how to redeem them.


Installation
============

     If you have downloaded CFSPoker.ZIP from an electronic repository,
unzip or pkunzip (OS/2 or DOS version) CFSPoker.ZIP into a temporary
directory of your choice. If you are installing CFSPoker from the Warp
Family Sampler CD-ROM, the file has been unzipped for you.

     Run CFSSetup.EXE in an OS/2 windowed session from the above
directory. The setup program will show you all of your drives that have
adequate space to install the program (approximately 8 MB). You can then
select a drive and directory of your choice (CFSPoker recommended) where
the program will be installed. If you unzipped the distribution file
into a temporary directory, the contents of the temporary directory can
be deleted after CFSSetup completes.

     CFSSetup.EXE will also build a program object for CFSPoker on your
Desktop. The CFSPoker program object may be moved to a location of your
choice. REXXLIB (1.32 - Quercus Systems) and VROBJ.DLL (2.1d - Watcom
International Corp.) are included in the ZIP file. These DLLs may be
left in the CFSPoker directory or moved to a library of your choice that
is included in your LIBPATH statement. In either case, be sure that the
current directory designation (.;) is included in the LIBPATH statement
in CONFIG.SYS.

     The REXX program MakeObj.CMD, located in the directory where you
install CFSPoker, can be used to recreate the CFSPoker Desktop object
should it become lost or corrupted.


Hardware / software requirements
================================

     CFSPoker is an OS/2 program written in VX-REXX and it will run on
any OS/2 2.1 or OS/2 Warp (3.0 or 4.0) system. The program requires the
Watcom VX-REXX run-time module, VROBJ.DLL, along with Quercus Systems
REXXLIB. Unless you are a licensed REXXLIB user, the copy of REXXLIB
included with CFSPoker may not be used for other purposes without
permission of Quercus Systems.

     CFSPoker will utilize any MMPM/2 supported sound card if the MMPM
option in CFSPoker is not turned off by the user.


Documentation
=============

     CFSPoker is distributed with both an .INF and .HLP file which
provide the same detailed information about CFSPoker and video poker in
general, including how to calculate the best way to play a hand. The
.INF file is viewed with the OS/2 Information Presentation Facility VIEW
program and the .HLP file provides immediate access to the same
information while you are playing the game. The following items are
covered in the soft-copy documentation:

     Welcome
     Getting started
     What is video poker
     Types of video poker
     Introduction to CFSPoker
          Features & Options
          CFSPoker Program Updates
          CFSPoker as an Information Resource
     How to play CFSPoker
          Game window layout
          Playing a hand
     Creating your own variations of CFSPoker
          CFSGames.CMD program
          CFSPoker.GAM file
               Game name line
               Game detail line
               Wild card line
     Additional Information About CFSPoker
          Hardware
          Software
          Creating your own card back bitmaps
     Glossary - Terms and Definitions

     The glossary contains over 60 definitions and descriptions of
CFSPoker and video poker information. This same documentation is also
available from C F S Nevada, Inc.'s World Wide Web site at
http://www.cfsrexx.com/.


Notes concerning OS/2 Warp 4.0 (aka Merlin)
===========================================

     While beta testing OS/2 Warp 4.0 it was found that when using the
normal startup sequence of programs to launch the program (i.e
CFSStart.EXE, CFSPoker.EXE), the sound file used by CFSStart plays
properly but .WAV files will not play from CFSPoker. Yet, if CFSPoker is
started directly from an object or from the command line, the CFSPoker
.WAV files play properly. This problem does not occur on any previous
releases of OS/2.

     This problem can be circumvented by replacing the default path and
file name value of ?:\CFSPoker\CFSStart.EXE in the CFSPoker Desktop
object with ?:\CFSPoker\CFSPoker.EXE. The effect of this change is that
the introduction screen and music will not precede the game screen.

     This bug has been reported to the IBM Merlin development team. If
the changes in Merlin require any change in CFSPoker, the updates will
be available, free for download, from the World Wide Web site and FTP
server detailed above.
