Artworx is a Naples, Florida

Naples, Florida

Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of July 1, 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 21,653. Naples is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated total population of 315,839 on July 1, 2007...

 software company that has been producing computer games since 1982, primarily specializing in poker

Poker

Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...

 and other card game

Card game

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s. While in their early days they published a variety of games, including titles in the adventure and arcade-action genres. But their bread and butter over the years has been their strip poker

Strip poker

Strip poker is a party game and a variation of the traditional poker where players remove clothing when they lose a round. Any form of poker can be adapted to a strip form; however, it is usually played with simple variants with few betting rounds, like five card draw...

 series.

Its original strip poker game, supposedly the first game of its kind ever created for home computers, was ported to numerous platforms, including the Apple II

Apple II

The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977...

 (1982), Commodore 64

Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...

 (1983), Atari 800 (1983), DOS

DOS

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 (1985), Amiga

Amiga

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 (1986), Atari ST

Atari ST

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 (1987) and Apple IIGS

Apple IIGS

The Apple , the fifth and most powerful model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. The "GS" in the name stands for Graphics and Sound, referring to its enhanced graphics and sound capabilities, both of which greatly surpassed previous models of the line...

 (1987). Data disks were available that offered additional opponents; these disks have become very hard to find. Artworx's first poker game was followed by several sequel

Sequel

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s.

Some other Artworx titles are Bridge 8.0 and King of Solitaire, although these have not sold as well as the poker games. Artworx' titles were released under the name Anco in Europe; CDS and Guildhall in the United Kingdom; and Artworx in the rest of the world.