Here is a good description of what I’m after. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/176614/seeking-a-game-like-hunt-the-wumpus-but-with-graphics-rpg-elements-and-a-balro
Obviously I’m not the only one looking. Zane > On Jul 15, 2020, at 4:16 PM, dwight via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Oops forgot Mike's page: > https://deramp.com/downloads/polymorphic/poly-88/software/Tape%20Images/BASIC/ > Dwight > > ________________________________ > From: dwight <dkel...@hotmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:14 PM > To: dwight <dkel...@hotmail.com>; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic > Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Dilithium Press (Computer Books) > > On Mikes page is a cassette copy of "hunt the Wumpus". It is in basic and is > cassette data. One can easily strip the cassette headers out but the BASIC > commands are encoded in the special characters. One could, without too much > difficulty figure what most of the BASIC commands were and strip them out. It > I have time, I could get my Poly88 up and running to create a listing in > plain BASIC. The graphical part would still need some translation to what > ever machine one wanted to target it to. > Still, looking at the text/encoded characters, in a file viewer like Xtree, > one could figure out the BASIC commands. It is easier than working out an > encrypted message with fore knowledge of BASIC. > Dwight > > ________________________________ > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of dwight via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:00 PM > To: Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com>; General Discussion: On-Topic and > Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Dilithium Press (Computer Books) > > Yes, it was a graphical game. > It was a search game as I recall and the Wumpus was also on the move. > The Poly88 used a memory mapped graphics. Other machines like the Atari > 400/800 could, with minor modifications, run such a program. The Poly88 used > a course graphics. Each character location could have a 3 high by 2 wide > black/white block patterns ( let me see, that would be 128 different > graphical patterns, as I recall ). > Dwight > ________________________________ > From: Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 12:54 PM > To: dwight <dkel...@hotmail.com>; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic > Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Dilithium Press (Computer Books) > > On Jul 15, 2020, at 11:23 AM, dwight via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > > I ran "Hunt the Wumpus" on my Poly88. I don't recall if it was part of their > games collection or I typed it in form some book. > Dwight > > The “Hunt the Wumpus” I’m thinking of is actually graphical. > > Zane > >
