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From: ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft)
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Subject: Re: Remembering the classics.. (was:Re:
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Date: 30 Sep 90 03:41:12 GMT
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I remember when our high school got 5 apple ][+'s and people
would spend time in there after school playing 'sabotage',
which  is deceivingly simple and very addictive :-) Then someone
wrote a pretty decent game in applesoft which very much resembled
missile command, and then there was the computer match program
that was written for our high school for fundraisers. That was
an impressive program - it had data files that contained
different information for each student (with some duplication)
which were used for different purposes. The data could be entered
on 5 computers, then the files merged, then the program run
simultaneously on 5 computers, the files merged again, then
5 printers could print simultaneously. As it was, with about 675
students it took all night to run and the year I did it we only
had 2 printers going and it took all day. After that I re-wrote
the slow parts in assembly (using the mini-assembler!) and it
took a total of only (!) 6 hours for all those students. I'm sure
it could have been sped up more, but hey I was a junior in high school!

Then someone brought in Castle Wolfenstein, and that became the
first game I owned for my //e (the game was a christmas gift).
We had a joystick but we liked to play with 2 people, one firing
and one moving. Fun stuff.

Gee, finally a topic of discussion I can get into!

BTW Muse software released super-text, which worked in 40, 56, or
70 columns, in 1982. It was written by E. Zaron.