Re: Taipan (was Re: Best good old II game ever?)

[kgagne@iii2.iii.net (Ken Gagne)]

David R. Villegas (mnementh@netcom.com) wrote:
: mlensenm@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Mark Lensenmayer) wrote:
: >Bilestoad was great fun.  I really liked TAIPAN, though.  I found it a
: >couple of years ago, and tore the basic code apart, recompiling it in
: >MD-BASIC.  I made a few changes, such a speeding up the ship sinking and
: >tightening up some of the code.  A very well writen game.  Never did get
: >it totally annotated, though.

: I vaguely remember that there was a book with a type-it-in BASIC version of
: Taipan for the Apple II.  It'd be fun to be able to buy more than one cannon
: at a time or redo the battle sequences so it doesn't take minutes to destroy
: 700 ships (I'd think that 700 ships would be able to surround and ram a
: single opponent :-).  Don't forget to borrow some cash then pay back more
: than you owe and watch the negative debt accumulate.

Taipan was converted in some form to run on Warp Six bulletin boards. You 
can probably find it running on a few today.

-Ken