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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
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Subject: Re: Remembering the classics..
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Date: 28 Sep 90 21:28:31 GMT
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In article <37734@ut-emx.uucp> ifar355@walt.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes:
>In article <7261@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>>	Wasn't Applevision the one that played some pretty darn complicated
>>music? (complicated for the 8 bit Apple IIs with cruddy speaker IMHO).

>Yup, that's the program that I was talking about. It drew Hires graphics
>(with machine language,since Int Basic didn't have hplot/hgr and all that stuff)

Had assembly code embedded.  He had to pull some weird tricks to keep the
assembly code from relocating itself (if you saved it after running it,
the assembly didn't get saved... the direct page program registers got
changed).

>with a small dancing animated figure. I think "Turkey in the Straw" was the
>song that it played. Neat thing was that it used the PRINT command to write to
>the hires screen (probably the first time someone ever did that). The text
>on hires screen thing was rewritten by someone and published in an old issue
>of Nibble.

It's like 80 bytes plus the character table.  Saw a version in an Assembly
Lines column in Softalk.

>BTW, what's Lemonade?

AIIIIGH!

Next you'll be asking "what's Space Eggs" or "did VisiCalc sell all that
many copies"...  8-O

Funny how all these Mac people think playing Risk on a computer is such
a new experience.  Anybody out there remember the Apple II version from
1979?

(hint: same company as "Robot Wars")

>David Huang                              |           This space

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