Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker

This was a bit of a bear to get running on my Mac. Everything depends on ddpoker.rc, which doesn't behave as expected unless an OSNAME environment variable is defined. I don't have that on macOS 14 (Sonoma) Mac using either zsh or bash. I hopped onto a 10.13 (High Sierra) hackintosh, and it doesn't have that variable either.

For the person who was having trouble getting this to work on an M1 Mac (flagged, really?), try this (after installing Java 8 and Maven using Homebrew):

    % git clone https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddpoker.git
    ...
    % cd ddpoker
    % export OSNAME=darwin
    % source ddpoker.rc
    JAVA_HOME changed, version now openjdk version "1.8.0_422"
    % mvn-package-no-tests
    ...
    % poker

I built this before figuring out the OSNAME thing, so I can't actually vouch for the build step working out of the box.

Anyway, thank you very much, Doug. This looks really cool.

dougdonohoe · 2 years ago

I'll have to fix the OSNAME thing, my apologies. That's an env var I have in my local ".zshrc" I had overlooked. I'll fix it later today.

dougdonohoe · 2 years ago

This is fixed. Proper variable is `OSTYPE`, which I've fixed. `OSNAME` is a personal historical artifact.

dougdonohoe · 2 years ago

I added a `TL;DR` section to the base readme with jus this info.

I wonder if this could be made to work in the browser using CheerpJ?

https://cheerpj.com

dougdonohoe · 2 years ago

Interesting. I hadn't heard of this before. I'll have to check it out.

apignotti · 2 years ago

Lead dev of CheerpJ here, if you need support you can find us on Discord: https://discord.gg/X9ruPkchM5

Edit: Tool a quick look at the repo, if the game is a Java 8 Swing application (as it seems) then it will most likely work out-of-the-box with CheerpJ

BatmansMom · 2 years ago

Ported my java game to Cheerp and it was the easiest thing ever. I highly recommend and you can see the results here: http://liarsdiceonline.com

Only criticism is that it can take a few MINUTES to initially load the game and there isn't a loading bar or anything

v64 · 2 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to clean this up and release it. I've never played DD Poker, but have experienced the loss of other games when servers go down and the software stops being updated.

I realize source releases aren't always possible, so it's a great gift to the community when one can make it happen and they put in the effort to do so.

Thanks for the kind words. It did take a bit of work, but it was my pleasure to do so. I hope it is valuable to someone!

SloopJon · 2 years ago

_mlbt · 2 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to open source this! It’s fun peeking at the source code of old games from bygone eras and more open source games are definitely a good thing.

My pleasure. Thanks for taking a peek.

jonrosner · 2 years ago

Wow thanks a lot! We played DD Poker during the Pandemic. It really saved us from going insane:)

That's great! You are the 2nd person who's told me that. You don't happen to know someone named Ryan in Oakland?

No, I am from germany. Also good job on programming a game that plays flawlessly on pretty much all systems after so much time. Also, online play via IP address was super easy.

dudinax · 2 years ago

Any plans to release the source for War Age of Imperialism?

I bought and played the heck out of that game years ago but never could get anyone to try it multiplayer.

Thanks for the great games!

Glad you enjoyed the games! Unfortunately, I don't own the IP rights to War! Age of Imperialism, so can't release the source code.

romac · 2 years ago

fnord77 · 2 years ago

ah, good old Java Swing. Spent years working on big Swing projects.

BTW, you want to wrap statements like this in a logger.isDebugEnabled() especially in the paint loop because otherwise you always incur the cost of string concat, debug or not!

> logger.debug("REPAINT COMPONENT "+(CNT++)+" ("+ImageComponent.getDebugColorName()+") portion " + bounds_.x +","+bounds_.y+" " +bounds_.width+"x"+bounds_.height);

That code block is in an "if (debug)" block, which is enabled if "settings.debug=true" is set.

indigodaddy · 2 years ago

“Even though DD Poker and the backend servers was shutdown in July 2017, folks continue to play it by manually sharing game URLs”

Anyone have more details about how the above works?

The in-game help explains, which I have a copy here:

https://static.ddpoker.com/gamehelp/help/hostonline.html