ethan wrote: Gack, I think I really need to be getting more sleep. I just read what you wrote, and what I wrote, and I've got a bad feeling you might have misunderstood what I wrote. The above is the pointer to the original DECUS basic source on Tim's site. I finally figured out how to play it, the trick was having CAP's lock on :^) It's actually a pretty cool little program even if it's a little primitive. I've put the updated source and a executable for Alpha OpenVMS V7.2 on my FTP site. ftp://zane.brouhaha.com/pub/vms It should compile fine on the VAX also, as well as maybe some PDP's. Other than the missing spaces/characters I'd mentioned the only problem I ran into is the way the RND statement differed. Well, that and the line numbers. Oh, I'm not sure what the weird *U*$=x characters in the original source at the end are. I thought maybe is was some sort of escape sequence to get out of BASIC. I've got to admit that after playing a game I'm really tempted to make a couple updates. It *really* needs to be able to handle lowercase! Zane