Re: Taipan...

[Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net>]

Roger Johnstone wrote:

> Two things I remember about playing Taipan...
>
> Playing it on an Apple II clone, I pressed reset, and instead of rebooting
> as it did on a real Apple it stopped with a BASIC prompt. Just fooling
> around I typed LIST, and was stunned to find it was written in BASIC.

I was just as amazed to learn it was written in Basic!

More surprising was the special character-set they created for the game, which
really suits it...

> The infamous money lender's bug! I think a lot of people found this one, you
> could borrow a small amount from the money lender, then repay him more than
> you owed him. You then had a negative balance which increased at 10% per
> month, much better than the regular bank :)

Yes! I love the challenge of making a killing... I managed to rake in about half
trillion, a while back (my personal best) and alot quicker than Bill Gates could!
:-)

I nearly lasted until the start of the new century, 1900 (another personal best).
That's roughly forty years, starting in 1860s.

It would be the most common game, I play on my *real* Apple IIe or IIc. Of course,
by using the emulator, I could always speed up the really lenghtly sea battles!

What would I do without my game of Taipan?

Regards,
Jeff.

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