29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
1:08 a.m.
Hi,
Tony Duell said:
Of course. I don't think anyone would expect to be able to run a
Doom-like gape, or even a space invaders type of arcade came on a machine
with a 1-line display like the HP9830. But that's a far cry from saying
that it's impossible to play games on an HP9830.
There were games, of a sort, for the Sinclair Mk14 with a 1-line 9-digit
calculator display:
"Moon Landing" - just a throttle control and display of altitude/velocity
and fuel.
"Duck Shoot" - "ducks" cross left to right and you have to hit the
key
corresponding to it's position.
"Mastermind" - some kind of guessing game.
"Silver Dollar" - Machine plays against you moving "silver dollars"
along
a track, first player unable to move loses.
Shows what you can do with a 1-line 7-seg display and 256 bytes of ram.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!