Re: Seeking software listing for Super Artillery

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> Scott writes ...
> >
> > I'm looking for an old Apple II game called Super Artillery.  I
> > remember playing it back in the day, and at one point I even had a
> > printout of the Apple Basic (or was it Integer?) source that I started
> > to port to my TRS-80 CoCo.
> >
> > I'm having a fit of retrogaming, and I'd dearly love to get my hands
> > on a copy of that old game again.  I've Googled until my eyeballs
> > hurt, but I haven't been able to find it out there on the net.  I've
> > found similar programs, but not the one I'm looking for.  The SA I
> > remember had a sinusoidal terrain generator, and forts that were
> > recognizeably castle-like.
> >
> > I have and love Scorched Earth, but it just ain't like the old days.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction?  By now I'm even willing
> > to pay money to someone who could mail me an old printout of the Apple
> > Basic(?) source code.
> >
>  ....
>
>      The game usually seems to get listed as "Artillery", since that is
the
> name of the Applesoft BASIC file. (Our copy of the game is listed that
way,
> too; but, when run, it shows as "Super Artillery".)
>
>      You should be able to find it on the Horde, which is an Asimov
mirror.
> (Asimov seems to be down right now.)
>
>      Go to ftp://ftp.au.horde.org/pub/apple_II/images/games/file_based/ .
>
>      The disk image file has a long name (listing the games on the disk)
> beginning with "artillery_ballistics_divebomber_".

I just looked at the listing of that game and the word "Super" is
no where to be found. I remember that game also, from my Atari
days. This one too was one I played a lot.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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