David Ahl's "101 Basic Computer Games"
published by DEC
in 1973 (this one is from the 1974 2nd printing).
Does it have a DEC Order Number on it? Is it EB-04873-76?
Ahl's DECUS submissions of these games are online at
http://pdp-11.trailing-edge.com/rsts11/rsts-11-013/index.html
http://pdp-11.trailing-edge.com/rsts11/rsts-11-014/index.html
Tim.
I can't find a DEC order number - the cover has the little blocks
"digital" logo in the lower right hand corner (as does the spine),
and inside it says:
1st printing -- July 1973
2nd printing -- April 1974
Copyright (C) 1973, 1974 by:
Digital Equipment Corporation
Maynard, Massachusetts 01754
But there is also a "box" which says:
Additional copies of "101 BASIC Computer Games"
are available for $7.50 plus .75 postage from:
Creative Computing
P.O. Box 789-M
Morristown, N. J. 07960
So it doesn't look as though DEC actually offered the
book through it's own sales channels - at least not in
1974. -- anyone know for sure?
Regards,
Dave
I have a d|i|g|i|t|a|l copy of the same book,
3rd printing, March 1975.
It says:
Additional copies of 101 Basic Computer Games
are available for $7.50 plus 50 cents postage
and handling from:
Software Distribution Center
Digital Equipment Corporation
Maynard, Massachusetts 01754
So, it looks like DEC eventually did offer the
book through its sales channels. I don't see a
DEC order number on it, though.
I have these games loaded on my RSTS/E 11/40 system,
along with various other BASIC and BASIC PLUS games
of the era, including the BASIC-PLUS version of
ADVENTure, which was one of the hardest things I've
ever tried to locate. We had that BASIC PLUS version
on our college system back in the late 1970s (1979?),
and I have greenbar paper LA36 hardcopy listings of
the programs and the data file. When I tried locating
a machine readable copy a couple years ago, everyone
told me there was no such thing, that it was only
written in FORTRAN. I told them I was sitting here
looking at a BASIC program listing, circa 1979. I
finally found a copy that someone had scavenged from
a Project Delta system in the mid 1980s and pulled
down to a PC file. It had a few bugs, but I was able
to fix them by debugging and looking at my hardcopy
listings of a known working version.
Ashley
