The operating procedure for a sample session is: April 12, 2005
1. The "Deposit" drop-down list
a. Select a Deposit amount, such as $1,000 dollars.
b. When you click on your choice, the drop-down list will close.
c. The message displayed will be
"Your Deposit of $1,000 has been accepted,
and has been added to your current Balance."
d. The current Balance display window will change from 0 to 1000
(i.e., the current Balance amount will be increased by 1000).
e. Then the Deposit text box will change from $1,000 back to blank.
2. The "Bet" drop-down list
a. Select a Bet of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1000, or 5000 dollars.
Or you can Bet the entire current Balance amount to "Bet It All".
b. When you click on your choice, the drop-down list will close.
c. The message displayed will be
"Your Bet of $100 is now active. To execute this Bet,
click on Spin. After the Spin cycle stops, the Payout
will be displayed, and your current Balance will increase
by the Payout less your Bet."
d. Your Bet amount will continue to be displayed in the "Bet" text
box, and will continue to be the active Bet, until you change it.
3. The "Spin" button
a. To play the slot machine, click on the "Spin" button.
b. The icons in each of the three slot machine windows will spin.
c. After the icons stop, wait until the Payout amount appears in the
Payout display window.
d. If you have winnings, your Balance will increase by the amount of
the Payout less your Bet. So, if initial Balance is 100 and Bet is
10 and Payout is 50, then your Balance will increase by 40 to 140.
e. If the Payout is 0, your Balance will be reduced by the amount of
your Bet. So, if your current Balance is 100, and your Bet is 10,
and the Payout is 0, then your Balance will decrease by 10 to 90.
4. Idle mode
After the Slot Machine has returned to idle, at this time you can:
a. Deposit more dollars, or
b. Withdraw dollars, or
c. Change your Bet, or
d. Click on the "Spin" button - to Spin again, or
e. Click on the "Stop" button - to display the
Payout table at the bottom of the screen.
5. The "Withdraw" drop-down list
a. Select a Withdraw amount, such as $1000 dollars.
b. When you click on your choice, the drop-down list will close.
c. The message displayed will be
"Your Withdraw of $1,000 has been issued,
and has been subtracted from your current Balance."
d. The current Balance display window will show the new Balance.
e. Then the Withdraw text box will change from $1,000 back to blank.
f. To Withdraw an amount in excess of the House Limit of $5,000,000,
select "House Excess".
g. To Withdraw the entire current Balance, select "Cash Out".
6. The "Stop" button
During a Spin cycle, if you wish to do so, you can click on the
"Stop" button. This will immediately stop the current Spin cycle.
If you stop on a Cherry icon, or a Dollar icon, or a Jackpot icon,
they will pay winnings as shown in the Payout table. For example,
one Jackpot icon pays $50 per $1 Bet. Wow!
Remember, when a Bell, a Lemon, and a Cherry come along, then you
can click on the "Stop" button - to stop on a winning Jackpot icon.
By increasing your Bet to $5,000, and then stopping on Jackpot icons,
your winnings will continue to increase into the millions of dollars.
Then you can Withdraw, say, $10 million. That really feels good. Huh!
7. Shortcut keys (for Jackpot Slots game #1 only)
Pressing the keyboard Enter key at any time is equivalent to clicking
on either Spin or Stop, depending on which mode is currently active.
8. Shortcut keys (for Jackpot Slots game #2 only)
To copy a dollar amount from the screen to an input text box:
a. Select (i.e., drag the mouse across) a dollar amount to highlight it.
b. Press Ctrl+C to copy this field to the Windows Clipboard.
c. Focus the cursor (i.e., click the mouse) in an input text box.
d. Press Ctrl+V to copy this field to the input text box.
9. Decimal digits and special characters in input text boxes
(for Jackpot Slots game #2 only)
These characters are valid in an input numeric field:
a. the decimal digits "0" through "9".
b. spaces, commas, a leading "$", and a trailing ".".
c. a trailing ".00".
For example, you can enter $5 million as 5,000,000 or as $5,000,000.
or as 5000000.00 or as 5,000,000.00 or as $5,000,000.00.
10. Initial implementation
Note: This is an initial implementation of the Jackpot Slots video
slot machine game (version 03d).
Please send errors that you discover, and suggestions for
improvement of this project. Thank You kindly.
Pat Moss (patmoss@patmoss.com)