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From: rep@genrad.com (Pete Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Black Box game for the HP-48SX
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Date: 26 Apr 91 21:44:37 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.100309.8447@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <210003@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com> <1991Apr7.055320.9091@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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In article <1991Apr7.055320.9091@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> peril@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Peter Lisle) writes:
 >In article <210003@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com> ngsl@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Shuh Lit Ng) writes:
 >>There is one other rule that you forgot to
 >>mention:
 >>     When an atom is at the edge of the box,
 >>     a ray on either sides of the atom will
 >>     be reflected.
 >>This feature is not very well taken care of in the 48
 >>program, because the ray does not get reflected back
 >>to its original path, but instead goes to the adjacent
 >>row/column.  Can this be corrected?
 >
 >You also mentioned something about the "original" version of the game.
 >Do you have the "official" instructions for the original version?  I
 >have never seen the original version.  My implementation was from
 >memory of a Commodore PET version that I have seen published in a
 >magazine some ten years ago.
 
I have not seen the hp48 game, but if this is the same as the Parker
Brothers board game, there is a 1978 rule book which has about 8 pages
explaining the rules, one practice game ( 1 page) and 14 pages of solitaire
play lookup tables and game solutions.