On May 11, 11:00, John Foust wrote:
> At 10:16 AM 5/11/99 -0500, Doug Spence wrote:
> >BTW, what is a "Hurkle" tape? :)
>
> Hurkle was a game, way back when. I don't remember the theme offhand.
> I don't know where it originated, but I'm sure it was in Computer Lib
> and/or David Ahl's early books.
It's in "BASIC Computer Games", and also on one of the RSTS tapes, I think.
It's one of the classic guess-the-location games; the hurkle hides on a X
by X grid, you guess which square, and for each guess, the computer tells
you roughly which direction you'd have to go in to reach it.
Anyone who can't bear to miss it, can see hurkle and other exciting
inducements on my Exidy Sorcerer, at York University's Open Day tomorrow
(Wednesday). The Computer Science Department has a small exhibit of
historical micros, including a PDP11/23 running 7th Edition UNIX, an Apple
][, a PET 2001-8K (calculator keyboard, and the original PET MOONLANDER
program), Sorcerer, BBC Model B (running Elite and REVS), Apple Mac Plus,
Archimedes A310 (serial no.2, running RISC OS, and acting as the tape drive
for the Sorcerer :-)), SGI Indigo R3000. I'd show more of my collection,
but there's not enough room.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 20:06:16 BST