RELEASE NOTES BIG DEAL

Version 2.0, november 2023

A sort of major change in that the software now relies on cryptographically strong random data from the OS. The typing is now normally not needed.
Also bigdealx has some extra code to support the squaredeal program.
This does not fix any bugs in 1.2, so if you are happy with that you could keep using it.

Kops and cds formats were added. These were mainly used in Eastern Europe.

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Version 1.2, September 8, 2012

The program was recompiled for a Windows instead of a DOS environment. It is still a command line application.
It runs on old and new machines, on 32-bit and 64-bit OSes.

No visible changes were made to the program. It is fine as it is...

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Version 1.1, September 8, 2000

Visible changes from version 1.0

- During the init dialog an empty answer was misinterpreted. Fixed.
- The format of the .INI file generated was changed, to aid Windows frontends.
- The bigdealx program did not terminate a string properly. Fixed.
  This means that the 1.1 version will complain about the contents of the dealentr.txt from 1.0
- and formats!!

Changed formats in 1.1

- The PBN format now has no Event tag, but a Generator tag
- The DUP format acquired a "header" after hand 1. This is more like the Jannersten version
- There is now also a DUPBLIND format, which does not show the hands on screen
- The internal GOEDEL format(only in bigdealx) now prints out the 29 digit decimal number

New formats in 1.1

- The DLM and DLMBLIND formats, for Jannersten Windup. Late addition, had limited testing.
  But Windup accepts the files, which was good enough for this release.
- The CSV format, for database imports, or wordprocessor macros.

No changes were made to the dealing guts of the program.

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Version 1.0, August 21, 2000

Initial release to be used at Olympiad, Maastricht

Included BRI, DGE, DUP, PBN, BOREL and BER formats, plus
in bigdealx version GOEDEL and STATS

