Hello all!

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Wed Mar 19 18:10:35 1997

On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Ward Griffiths and/or Lisa Rogers wrote:

> Actually, there was only one volume of BASIC Computer Games, it's just
> that there were several editions/translations of the same set of programs.
> The original was in DEC BASIC, then there was the Microcomputer edition
> (MITS Altair BASIC), a TRS-80 edition and probably a few others. Back in
> 1978/79 I translated quite of the programs from the Microcomputer version
> to the HP2000 at the community college I was attending. I recall that
> the hardest part was that string handling, especially substrings, were
> very different.

Ummm... Beg to differ. In addition to "101 BASIC Computer Games" was the
follow up volume "MORE BASIC Computer Games" by the self same David H.
Ahl. (I have both volumes in my collection) B^}

-jim
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