ethan wrote:
> --- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com> wrote:
> > I've got a question though, how was the stuff gotten into the computer in
> > the first place? Not feeling very motivated this morning so I just ported
> > the following to VMS BASIC:
> > 10-190 BATTLESHIP, Version: 2, January 1974
> > http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/www/lib10/0276/index.html
>
> I just visited this link and was wondering what the crud on the last line
> of BT.BAS.1 was.
>
> Otherwise, good job. I'm sure there's a bunch of us whose early DEC experience
> was in the form of BASIC games, whether RSTS or OS/8 or whatever, and it all
> brings back the memories.
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
Received on Mon Feb 07 2000 - 19:20:46 GMT