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. Does the game ever end or will it
carry on until it crashes??

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.

Apple ][ Forever!