• Subject: Re: Star Trek games (was: errors)
  • From: PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:57:04 -0400

No, the version I found on the COMMON tape was written in RPG.  But it only
displayed a teensy-weensy 30 characters x 10 rows or so...  And I improved
it to use the whole screen.

So I can't complain that it's a hog.  (:

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com




>If the version of LIFE you had was written in S/34 BASIC, I'm guilty of
>writing it. I was young and foolish, then. Now I'm no longer young.
>
>Hank Heath
>HLHeath Consulting
>
>In a message dated 9/27/99 12:03:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com writes:
>
><< Then there's the LIFE program... also a machine hog, as it
> Write-write-writes generation after generation to the screen.
>
> Worse then that is the program that used to be on Common's STARBASE game
> tape-- it was from a Sys/38 release =prior= to release 1...  just having it
> on the -machine- was enough to cause problems! >>



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