double dummy analysis

[Finch]

I don't really know where to post this, but I'm hoping someone knows the answer.

 

I have a Mac.

 

I would like to be able to carry out card by card double dummy analysis of hands (not necessarily played on BBO). The way that Deep Finesse lets you do (or GIB when watching on BBO).

I don't have a windows emulator.

 

Is there anything I use/download for free that allows me to do this?

 

[i am not going to pay because I also have a windows PC and I can always change computers]

[mgoetze]

The BBO Handviewer program, which is also used on these forums, lets you do trick-by-trick (not card-by-card unfortunately) double dummy analysis.

 

http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/hvdoc.html

[BunnyGo]

The BBO Handviewer program, which is also used on these forums, lets you do trick-by-trick (not card-by-card unfortunately) double dummy analysis.

 

http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/hvdoc.html

 

 

Yeah, the "hack" I do is to use the hand editor on BBF, and type the hand in. While I'm typing it in I can do card by card analysis. It's a bit of a roundabout way of doing it, but it "works".

[hotShot]

I don't have a Mac, so I can't tell you how "good" this works. It is a Python Frontend to Bo Haglunds DDS that runs on Os X.

(You will need to do a lot of compiling yourself.

 

http://www.aleax.it/Bridge/

 

Thomas Andrew's Deal is available for OS X, it think you can download binaries there, but it does not perform the task the way you wish.

[inquiry]

Not sure it is worth it, but bridge baron runs on a mac, and it has a double dummy solver. My mom has a mac, but I don't have access to bridge baron, so no idea if it's double dummy solver is card-by-card.

 

If you are computer clever or know someone computer clever, there is Thomas Andrews Deal 3.1 which has the double dummy solver included. It has an OS X for power Mac's (the intel platform one). See His download page

[Finch]

Yeah, the "hack" I do is to use the hand editor on BBF, and type the hand in. While I'm typing it in I can do card by card analysis. It's a bit of a roundabout way of doing it, but it "works".

 

 

Thanks, I didn't realise you could do this. It does indeed seem to do what I want (more or less) although without all the nice user functionality of something like DF. Still it suffices.

 

The other options that require things to be compiled etc need more computer skill than I have. I use Dealer on my windows PC (via a DOS window) but am not sure how to use it on a Mac, it doesn't seem to have any idiot's instructions the way it does for the DOS version.