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Greg wrote:

>On Fri, 08 Aug 1997 07:55:23 -0400, Art Tostaine, Jr. wrote:
>
>>How about the Sys/34 Games library, with the Auto Race game.  At every
>>turn, you type in a number (1-5) for acceleration, braking, and
>>steering, and a little asterisk (your car) goes around a track of
>>asterisks.
>>
>>Of course, the Mona Lisa printout wasn't bad either....
>
>My favorite was the Star Trek game.  I actually still have the source
>code for it; At one time I was going to convert it to the S/38, then
>the 400, and somehow it just never got done.  Anyone wanting to see
>some pretty nasty RPG II code need look no further...
>
>Wasn't there a two-player tic-tac-toe game also?


If I remember correctly, the T-T-T game had the first player key in the
device name of the 2nd player.  The program allocated the 2nd device and
activated the screen.  Nice example of acquiring a device.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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