Re: Bolo up on Asimov and a mystery post found?

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

Bolo is on Facebook though (oddly enough):

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Apple-II-BOLO/118045504881368?sk=info


And the author, Jim Lane, did post a recent comment about it here:
http://www.techipedia.com/2006/revisiting-the-80s-apple-ii-games/

in which he says:

James Lane / February 10, 2009 
As far as I know, it is possible to win at the highest level of the game. It’s hard to do, though – deliberately so. Most computer games of the time were easy enough that players would get tired of them fairly quickly. Bolo was designed to be challenging even for very practiced players.

There was a minor extra built in to the game. If you did manage to win at the highest level, something happened on the screen. It wasn’t major; just enough that knowing about would prove that you actually had won, at least until word got out.

James Lane
Author of the Apple ][ game, “Bolo”



So..., now to hack it to win at level 9 and see what it does?  

]HR