From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Card Game
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 21:19:18 -0500
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David Jenkins wrote:
> 
> In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.970803132736.21769A-
> 100000 AT ernie DOT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>, Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu> writes
> >I am about to start a game that uses cards, does anyone know where I can
> >find a deck of cards (.pcx, .bmp or any other format)?
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> Psssst.
> Got Win95?? (I don't know if Win3 has them too.)
> Got the card games that come with it??
> Get a screen thief to save the windows as .bmp.s and cut them out.
> (Don't tell Msoft where you heard this. :-)

It's in Windows 3.x too.  The file you want to examine is named
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CARDS.DLL .  This file cantains all the cards and all
the backs (with animation) in the resource section.  It also contains
several routines that shuffles the cards, and animate the backs.  An
import library and C header file for it was published on the (I think)
December 1995 issue of Windows Interactive Programming Journal.

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