#Craps and BJ on HD
As far as Blackjack Academy is concerned, why bother? I bought the game to
practice counting, basic strategy, etc. After a while, I started seeing
the same sequences of cards over and over again. It appears that BJA
doesn't actually shuffle — it randomly picks one of a number of
preshuffled decks.
You would be much better off getting BlackJack Lab, a truly wonderful
shareware blackjack programme which is available on CI$. It is HD
installable, will multi-task, etc. It is also a much more powerful
simulator.
As far as Craps Academy goes, I really like the simulation. The graphics
are wonderful, and the interface is not bad. The problem is (you guessed
it) that the programme doesn't actually roll the dice. Rather, what it
does is to randomly select a series of dice decisions from a set of such
series. In other words, after a while, you start seeing the exact same
sequence of dice rolls!!
I think we should pressure Dan Cogliano (author of BlackJack Lab) to start
working on Craps Lab (or something more atractivly named).
Gordon Rose