Untangling Dog Stars...

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Re: Untangling Dog Stars...

#16 Post by Strident » Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:02 pm

Garry wrote:
Wed Jan 26, 2022 10:21 am
FWIW, I've been trying to find some missing Apple II games and came across the Apple II Mars Mission. I can't get it to understand any of my input, but, as it's written in BASIC, I can look at the source code and see that it's not based on Dog Star Adventure and looks different to the other Mars Missions. I've put it in the too-hard basket for the time being. I need to learn more about all the intracacies of the Apple II.
Yeah, I was looking at it yesterday, running it from one of the compilation disk images on this page (which is really useful as it lets you look at the contents of individual files on the disk, such as the BASIC listings) and also lets you run the disks in an online emulator.
http://apple.rscott.org/tools/listdsks.htm?search=

...and yeah, I couldn't get it to accept any inputs either.

I'll scratch it off my list of Dog Star candidates, though.

Here's the BASIC listing...
http://apple.rscott.org/tools/view.htm? ... 645e88&n=2

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Re: Untangling Dog Stars...

#17 Post by Simon » Wed Jan 26, 2022 3:16 pm

Dog Star is also on Fred Fish Disk 13 for the Commodore Amiga.

https://archive.org/details/cdrom-frozenfish-1-amiga

Written in Amiga Basic. File names "dogstar.bas" and "dog star data"

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1     screen 1,2,0
2     width 40
5     print"DOG STAR ADVENTURE  by Lance Miklus"
6     print
9     print" Adapted for the PET by David Malmberg"
12    print "from APPLESEED - January 1980"
20    print
25    print "Ported to the AMIGA by
30    print
35    print "           Don White
36    print "           47 Ariel Court
37    print "           Nepean, Ontario
38    print "           K1A 0M2
39    print "           (613) 829-2082
40    print
45    print "           November 1985"
50    print:print "Press any key to continue"
52    getkey x$
55    scnclr

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Re: Untangling Dog Stars...

#18 Post by Garry » Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:46 am

Once again, it has the original author's name wrong. It should be 'Micklus'.

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