extdgl42 wrote, On 16/03/09 19:52:
Can someone give a source of the following program/game:
Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, in the old QUANTA library, the 50(0?)M creature on some
dozens of diskettes, I found a version of "Tower of Hanoi" (aka "Tower of
Buddha" I believe): Move five (or however many disks--yes, the hard type, but not confusers'
:-) disks from one of three pegs to another, one disk at a time, but without ever allowing a larger
on top of a smaller.
Note this is not the one that goes up to a dozen or more disks, all viewed from
the side and showing as rectangles and all in black. This was fixed at five, no
more, no less, and as well drew on the display round disks of a discernable
thickness, using ellipses, hidden line erasure, and I don't remember what else.
The disks were light green.
The programming was not as difficult as it (may) sound. It would not be
entirely difficult to generalize it to a variable number of disks esp if going
up to seven disks (the variation we have in wood at home) or eight or ... I had
everything worked out years ago except--how to vary the thickness of the disks
as necessary while still using the ellipses. I did not figure out that last
bit. I have lost the annotated copy of the BASIC I made and that I can still
partly visualize. It would, however, take eons to reprogram it myself.
Yet another added feature would be the simple hint which allows you to readily
solve any number of disks ... but which not all will grasp :-) .
As I remember, the program was credited to someone named Kennedy, but I could
be wrong.
This is what I am trying to get for the QLer to work on who is "confined" to a
skilled nursing facility, as mentioned in a separate post.
As for anyone complaining about my asking about such old material: any
complaints will indeed be handled when I ... take out my cane and whack the
complainer :-) .
Laurence Reeves might be able add to this. He wrote a Tower of Hanoi
program that used Minerva to interface to a Fischer Technik robot that
did it manually. I used it for years a demo at shows, but cannot recall
even where the Fischer Technik stuff is let alone the program.
Tony
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