
   This is an X windows based game of the casino game blackjack.
The program is currently written to use the Qt toolkit from Troll Tech.
For more information on Qt see "http://www.troll.no/".

   I have always enjoyed the game of blackjack.  When I first played in
a casino I lost all the money I had brought.  After reading some books 
on blackjack and the FAQ for rec.gambling.blackjack, I now know that there
is a basic strategy to follow.  The strategy is based on the odds of each
hand and the dealers up card.  I wrote this program so I could practice
the basic strategy of blackjack.  The basic strategy is in the program
and a help level can be set to help the user learn to play by these rules.
The basic strategy can be changed for your local rules by editing the 
.blackjackrc file in your home directory.  

   I first wrote this program in tcl/tk.  It was OK, but I have trouble 
remembering all the syntax and parsing rules of tcl/tk.  The tcl/tk version
was also noticably slow on my 386 running Linux.  Qt has been very good 
as a C++ GUI library and is not slow at all on my 386.

   If you find this program fun/useful please send me e-mail.

Tom Daley
daley@codenet.net (Tom Daley)
http://users.codenet.net/daley

