27 Nov
2003
27 Nov
'03
8:30 a.m.
On Nov 11, 9:47, Kelly Fergason wrote:
All the trek's are cool, of course... but if someone knew where the
Trader game was, that would be very cool.
I remember it being 2 basic programs, trader was the front-end, which
chained to trades. Standard economic galactic trader game, starting
at the Sol system.
Did you find it? Yes, it's two programs, which I found on Al Kossow's
image of the HP library tape. I've been putting together a web page
about BASIC games I've found interesting -- I ran out of time so
there's not much there yet, but I extracted TRADER and TRADES (thanks
to Eric Smith, whose tsbextract and tsbdecode programs I adapted).
If anyone else is looking for something particular, I could easily be
persuaded to add it when I have time, assuming it's something I can
find. I've got images of David Ahl's DECtapes, as well as the HP tape,
and a few other sources.
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/basicgames/index.html
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
27 Nov
27 Nov
9:05 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:30:20PM +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
I've got images of David Ahl's DECtapes, as
well as the HP tape,
and a few other sources.
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/basicgames/index.html
University of York
I'd love some of the programs off of David Ahl's DECtapes... I have my
SBC6120 with me, but the games image only has a handful of programs.
For starters, how about Chemist, Chief and Hammurabi? I don't have my
copy of "BASIC Computer Games" with me, so I'm hard pressed to remember
titles.
Long ago, I used to convert EDUsystem BASIC programs to PET BASIC. I had
more success with some than others. I did manage to port the 72-column
Star Trek game (with three-character wide ships in the short-range display)
to the PET. I played that one for hours and hours.
-ethan
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Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Nov 11, 9:47, Kelly Fergason wrote:
Those are it... Cool. I see some time-wasting ahead for me, as if I
had that much time to waste...
Ok, next one. Another trek game, but more interactive. I believe it
was basically a battle, ie. a Klingon
showed up, and you talked until someone started shooting. It was more
like the adventure games that
came later, 'fire phasers', etc. The source was protected, so you could
not list it, and figure out how to win.
Anyone remember that one?
Kelly
All the trek's are cool, of course... but if
someone knew where the
Trader game was, that would be very cool.
I remember it being 2 basic programs, trader was the front-end, which
chained to trades. Standard economic galactic trader game, starting
at the Sol system.
Did you find it? Yes, it's two programs, which I found on Al Kossow's
image of the HP library tape. I've been putting together a web page
about BASIC games I've found interesting -- I ran out of time so
there's not much there yet, but I extracted TRADER and TRADES (thanks
to Eric Smith, whose tsbextract and tsbdecode programs I adapted).
If anyone else is looking for something particular, I could easily be
persuaded to add it when I have time, assuming it's something I can
find. I've got images of David Ahl's DECtapes, as well as the HP tape,
and a few other sources.
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/basicgames/index.html
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