Ongame Network updated their Mac OS X software two days ago. This new software doesn’t work with the current Poker Copilot release. So I’ve made some adjustments to fix these problems.
But this is more than just a fix. Finally, Poker Copilot’s HUD works with Ongame Network, although for now, only with BetFair:
Madeleine at FrenchVoiceOvers.com did the translation and voiceover. I want to praise Madeleine’s professionalism and responsiveness. Thanks also to loyal Poker Copilot customer Christophe for advising on French poker terms.
Here in the lab, Poker Copilot is now branded as “Poker Copilot 3”:
This is simply a change of version number. The current update of Poker Copilot 2 is 2.101 and it is a vastly improved product from Poker Copilot 2.00. So it seems right to reflect this in an update of the major version number.
Before I make this the official update, there are some things to do: I want to get the translations up to date; I plan to update the user guide; I need to update the demo video.
If I was a good businessperson, I’d be releasing a new major update every year and charging current users an upgrade fee. This is common practice in the software business. However I’m not a good businessperson, so there will be no upgrade fee for any existing customers of Poker Copilot, no matter when they bought it. Partly this is because I can’t think of an appropriate date in the past to nominate as the cut-off purchase date to receive a free update. Partly it is because I’m too lazy to handle the extra work created by the upgrade-versus-new-customer process. Note that I do reserve the right to change the free upgrade policy in the future, even though I most likely won’t.
I’ve made the spreadsheets for translating the Poker Copilot strings a little better. You can now see the English text that you are translating all the time. I’ve added a column in which you can write “Yes” once you are done downloading. This makes it possible to filter out the strings already translated:
You can also now see the total number of keys, and the number already translated. I figure seeing an updated counter makes it easy to see if much has happened since you last checked the spreadsheet.
Thanks to the volunteer translators who have already started on the updates I made two days ago to the list of strings to be translated. I’ve put up a unreleased build that you can use to see how the strings you’ve translated look in place. Download it here.
Updating the website screenshots has been on my to-do list for a year or so. Today I did it. The screenshots show just how much Poker Copilot 2.101 differs from Poker Copilot 2.0.
The HUD as it was:
The HUD now:
There are now player icons, colour-coded statistics, and table stats.
The hand replayer as it was:
The hand replayer now:
It is now sexier, it shows odds of winning, it shows the HUD stats, you can record the hand as a video, you can jump straight to the flop, turn, or river, there are keyboard shortcuts, and you can get the hand history text formatted.
Here is the bankroll chart as it is:
And now:
The bankroll chart has barely changed, but the screenshot lets you see how the whole interface has developed.
I didn’t notice that addition to PokerStars last October: Hotkeys built-in. Although we’ve had the free BlazingStars to help with on Mac OS X, it is even better when Hotkeys are part of PokerStars itself.
You’ll find Hotkeys in PokerStars’ Options menu:
I think they’ve done a nice job in the user interface for defining Hotkeys:
