CARD Games (1986/2026, Carlo and Lorenzo Barazzetta)

The great old gems of Commodore 64 card games have recently been updated with English language versions and some additional improvements.

In 1985, Carlo and Lorenzo Barazzetta developed the “CARD” library, with which they then developed 3 games, published by Systems Editoriale in the following years.

The original Briscola game was updated in 2024, with these new features:

• the human player and the computer, at the beginning of each game, take turns playing the first card (who starts playing in the first game is random).
• game instructions revised for better readability
• BASIC code revised for better readability
• final score is now displayed for a longer time
• fixed a bug in the AI

In 2026, the Briscola 2 game was translated into English and further improved.

In 2026, the original Poker 4 game (1987) was revised and translated into English.

The new Italian and English versions include these fixes and improvements compared to the 1987 original:

• fixed player exclusion management: players who run out of money are now correctly excluded from the game
• fixed end game handling: the game now correctly ends when only one player remains
• currency symbol changed from Lira (£) to Euro (€) with new graphic symbol added to the CARD character set
• game instructions revised for better readability
• BASIC code revised for better readability

In 2026, a new version of the CARD ROUTINES was developed: CARD ROUTINES 2, which extends the CARD command to support off-screen coordinates with automatic clipping.

In 2026, joystick support (port 2) was added to all four games in the collection: Briscola Italian, Briscola English, Poker 4 Italian and Poker 4 English.