Minhato A Korean Card Game Copyright© 1996 - 2026 Randy L. Pearson

Release Notes

Overview:

This game was developed originally in DOS (1992). In an attempt to learn Java, I am porting it over. If you find any bugs, please let me know by sending me an e-mail message.

• 6 Jan 97
  Added new scoring combinations to the game. See the help file for details.
   
• 18 Jul 2000
  Added a running score of all games played. Displayed as "Total" score on screen.
  Added a pop-up box to notify the user when SUL-SA-RI is detected during game play. Previously SUL-SA-RI was handled correctly, but the user was never notified.
  Updated source code for compatibility with Java 2.

Reported Problems:

• Reported by: Christopher Kim and Katrina Collins.
  The handling of GO-TO-RI (3 birds) was not correct. The score was correct, but at the end of the hand, the summary showed CHO-DON instead of GO-TO-RI.
  Corrected: 9 October 2002 - Found and changed text to read GO-TO-RI instead of CHO-DON. Silly mistake that was. While I was looking at the code, I also improved the placement of the summary messages and recompiled under JDK 1.3.1.
   
• Reported by: larrier@pilot.msu.edu.
  If 4 cards are dealt to the user or computer's hand at the start, 100 points are awarded for these, even after the current hand is finished and a new hand is started.
  Corrected: 18 July 2000 - Needed to reset a variable at the end of the hand. Also corrected an issue with drawing the top deck card if this happens.
   
• Reported by: larrier@pilot.msu.edu.
  Reported that after playing for a long time, the computer begins cheating by dealing all the "point" cards to itself and none to the user.
  I have examined the code again and the program does not cheat, at least not on purpose. Dealing of cards is purely random. The only thing I can think of is maybe there is a problem with Java's random number generator. If anybody has anything to share about this, please drop me a line.
   
• Reported by: rsuggs@bamafolks.com.
  
• Seems the program sometimes gives the computer some extra points, for no reason.
  Corrected: 18 July 2000 - Needed to reset a counter at the end of the hand and some internal scoring flags needed fixing.
   
• Detected by: Author
  I found a problem with end of game in 3 player mode.
  Corrected: Date Unknown - Fixed detection of when there are no more cards left in the deck or play areas.
   
• Reported by: Christopher Y Kim.
  The documentation states that the winner of the last hand goes first, but the player always goes first.
  Corrected: 7 Sep 2003 - Forget to update a variable at the end of the game.