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Subject: Re: Remembering the classics..
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Date: 29 Sep 90 19:31:27 GMT
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In article <28316@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>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")
>
>-- 
>fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
>..!ucbvax!cory!fadden

I don't remember the RISK game, but my roommates and I are still playing 
RobotWar (from Muse, by Silas Warner). It just occurred to me, did Muse
have any other programmers beside Silas? The only Muse games I can think of now
are Castle Wolfenstein I and II, FireBug, and RobotWar, all by the disappeared
Silas Warner (and at least the last two had his trademark screen that was 
totally blank except for a little "WAIT..." in the middle).

If anyone has a hotshot robot they want to send me, e-mail away. My roommates
are trying to create a tangent function lookup table using RobotWar's advanced
indirect register addressing mode. One of them made a robot "Bob" that bolted
for the top left hand corner and sat there until a certain amount of damage was
taken. Then it ran top speed into the bottom right hand corner smashing and
shooting itself to death. You gotta respect that robot's attitude.


Eric Hsu                           ehsu@husc4.Bitnet, ehsu@husc4.harvard.edu