Re: Anyone have a complete Aquatron (full disk, original or .nib)?

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

On Saturday, September 22, 2012 7:44:40 PM UTC-5, N.N. Thayer wrote:
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> > > > While checking out the various keypress compares in Aquatron, I find 
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> > > > some that seem to want to connect to code that is no longer present (at 
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> > > > least not present in the file-based cracks).  I'm curious if an original 
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> > > > disk (or full disk image) would shed some light on it.  All I can find 
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> > > > Was from Sierra Online, 1983.
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> > > I'd like to find a copy of the game without a garbled title screen.
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> > The 'uncredited' crack in the file-based section of Asimov has a clean title screen.
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> > Here are the list of keys if someone wants to play with it.
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> > W goes to an RTS now (looks like it might have had code?)
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> > If you mess with the Ctrl-X and Ctrl-Y enough, it seems to hang (and looks like the code has wandered off).
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> > There are the regular game play inputs too (not listed here).
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> That was one I uploaded...
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> I've been after the one shown in this screenshot from Jason Scott for some time:
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> http://artscene.textfiles.com/intros/APPLEII/aquatronc.gif
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> At my request, he generously sent me his entire archive of disk images but that particular crack of Aquatron doesn't seem to be among them.

The crack by the Freeze? That's the one I have (I'll move it along).

]HR