Dilithium Press (Computer Books)

[dwight]

Oops forgot Mike's page:
https://deramp.com/downloads/polymorphic/poly-88/software/Tape%20Images/BASIC/
Dwight

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From: dwight <dkelvey at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:14 PM
To: dwight <dkelvey at hotmail.com>; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Dilithium Press (Computer Books)

On Mikes page is a cassette copy of "hunt the Wumpus". It is in basic and is cassette data. One can easily strip the cassette headers out but the BASIC commands are encoded in the special characters. One could, without too much difficulty figure what most of the BASIC commands were and strip them out. It I have time, I could get my Poly88 up and running to create a listing in plain BASIC. The graphical part would still need some translation to what ever machine one wanted to target it to.
Still, looking at the text/encoded characters, in a file viewer like Xtree, one could figure out the BASIC commands. It is easier than working out an encrypted message with fore knowledge of BASIC.
Dwight

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Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Dilithium Press (Computer Books)

Yes, it was a graphical game.
 It was a search game as I recall and the Wumpus was also on the move.
 The Poly88 used a memory mapped graphics. Other machines like the Atari 400/800 could, with minor modifications, run such a program. The Poly88 used a course graphics. Each character location could have a 3 high by 2 wide black/white block patterns ( let me see, that would be 128 different graphical patterns,  as I recall ).
Dwight
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From: Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 12:54 PM
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Subject: Re: Dilithium Press (Computer Books)

On Jul 15, 2020, at 11:23 AM, dwight via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:

I ran "Hunt the Wumpus" on my Poly88. I don't recall if it was part of their games collection or I typed it in form some book.
Dwight

The “Hunt the Wumpus” I’m thinking of is actually graphical.

Zane