27 Jan
2006
27 Jan
'06
5:12 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
Emulation pix at wikipedia are incorrect; color palette would indeed
make the donkey brown. If I cared more I'd update the donkey.bas
wikipedia article, but I don't :-)
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wait a cotton
picking minute...isn't there a reference
in "Revolution in the Valley" to a game written by
Bill Gates with a big BROWN donkey??? I don't own the
book, obviously stating from memory. Maybe someone can
confirm or deny.
Story and screen captures at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONKEY.BAS .
Doesn't look brown to me. Maybe it's a question of the emulation -
which brings up full circle.