Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread Kevin Becker
great. > > Lloyd > > From: M100 On Behalf Of John R. Hogerhuis > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 12:03 PM > To: m...@bitchin100.com > Subject: Re: [M100] Star Merchant > > > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 9:52 AM Lloyd Johnson <mailto:lloydel...@comcast.net>

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 12:58 PM Brian K. White wrote: > On 6/25/21 1:02 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > > > > I'm also the author of LaddieAlpha, TBACK, DLPilot and all of DLPlus. > > > Stephen Hurd wrote dlplus, then John worked on it, then I did. > > Oops... my mistake I swapped DLPlus and

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread Brian K. White
On 6/25/21 1:02 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 9:52 AM Lloyd Johnson > wrote: You wrote it?    Wow!   Nice job! It works great. Lloyd Thanks Lloyd. It was a fun little project.  I'm also the author of LaddieAlpha, TBACK, D

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread lloydelmer
: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] Star Merchant On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 9:52 AM Lloyd Johnson mailto:lloydel...@comcast.net> > wrote: You wrote it?Wow! Nice job! It works great. Lloyd Thanks Lloyd. It was a fun little project. I'm also the author of

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread Peter Vollan
+Ahl&qid=1624627765&sr=8-2 >> >> >> >> My copy is still stashed somewhere in storage. >> >> >> >> Lloyd >> >> >> >> *From:* M100 *On Behalf Of *John R. >> Hogerhuis >> *Sent:* Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:05 PM &

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 9:52 AM Lloyd Johnson wrote: > You wrote it?Wow! Nice job! > > It works great. > Lloyd > > > Thanks Lloyd. It was a fun little project. I'm also the author of LaddieAlpha, TBACK, DLPilot and all of DLPlus. -- John.

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread Lloyd Johnson
You wrote it?Wow! Nice job! It works great. Lloyd Sent from my iPad > On Jun 25, 2021, at 11:36 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > >  > >> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:24 PM Peter Vollan wrote: >> Can't I just load it into my Model 100 as a do file and convert it to basic? >> I don't follo

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:24 PM Peter Vollan wrote: > Can't I just load it into my Model 100 as a do file and convert it to > basic? I don't follow why you are doing the cassette part. > > Of course. I was just mentioning how it works with the web-based CloudT emulator I wrote. CloudT file I/O

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread Brian K. White
On 6/25/21 1:23 AM, Peter Vollan wrote: Can't I just load it into my Model 100 as a do file and convert it to basic? I don't follow why you are doing the cassette part. Let me quote the part that you missed buried deep in the 16 pages of text, easy to miss: "For those that want to try Lloyd'

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread Brian K. White
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Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread Russell Flowers
=big+computer+games+by+David+Ahl&qid=1624627765&sr=8-2 > > > > My copy is still stashed somewhere in storage. > > > > Lloyd > > > > *From:* M100 *On Behalf Of *John R. > Hogerhuis > *Sent:* Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:05 PM > *To:* m...@bitchin100.com &g

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread lloydelmer
omewhere in storage. Lloyd From: M100 On Behalf Of John R. Hogerhuis Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:05 PM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] Star Merchant Super cool Lloyd. I think I might have owned that book... For those that want to try Lloyd's game in your browser yo

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread lloydelmer
Oops! You are Peter. I meant to say, what John was describing. Its still early for me. 😊 Lloyd From: lloydel...@comcast.net Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 6:38 AM To: 'm...@bitchin100.com' Subject: RE: [M100] Star Merchant What Peter is describing is a super c

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-25 Thread lloydelmer
have one, but I am seriously considering it. I’m assuming they are still available. Lloyd From: M100 On Behalf Of Peter Vollan Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 12:24 AM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] Star Merchant Can't I just load it into my Model 100 as a do fil

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-24 Thread Peter Vollan
Can't I just load it into my Model 100 as a do file and convert it to basic? I don't follow why you are doing the cassette part. On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 15:05, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > Super cool Lloyd. I think I might have owned that book... > > For those that want to try Lloyd's game in your

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-24 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Super cool Lloyd. I think I might have owned that book... For those that want to try Lloyd's game in your browser you can quickly paste it into CloudT What I did to load it: Copy raw text to clipboad from github https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LEJ-Projects/Star-Merchant---NEC-PC-8201A-TRS80-M

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-24 Thread Brian K. White
Very nice. Thank you. On 6/24/21 5:27 PM, lloydel...@comcast.net wrote: Star Merchant is a game that I wrote over 40 years ago.   It was originally published in the August 1981 issue of Creative Computing.  It reappeared in David Ahl's book, Big Computer Games. I recently rehosted it to the

[M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-24 Thread lloydelmer
Star Merchant is a game that I wrote over 40 years ago. It was originally published in the August 1981 issue of Creative Computing. It reappeared in David Ahl's book, Big Computer Games. I recently rehosted it to the TRS-80 Model 100 and NEC PC-8201A. I tweaked a few of the parameters to mak