Re: WANTED: Acquire

[nobody@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner)]

In article <38801AA7.605E14@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:

> Jake Wildstrom writes ...
> > 
> > I'm looking waaay back.... into the deep, profound past, and remembering an
> > actually pretty good (text mode, 40 columns) DOS 3.3 game for the Apple ][.
> > I can't for the life of me remember the name, but I remember it was
> > space-system themed--the "companies" were the letters A through F on the
> > screen, with names
> > like Altair Industries, Betelgeuse Systems, etc.
> > 
>  ....
> 
>      The original (old, on tape) release of Aquire for Apple II uses the
> standard hotel chain names. Of course, it would be easy to modify the program
> for different names. The same goes for games like Stocks & Bonds.

Nope, it's not that...I guess I'll have to go and boot up PowerBook and
check to see if I actually kept a copy of that program under my Bernie
HD's...I can't remember the name of the program either offhand, but used
to play it in high school.  I knew immediately what game Jake was but it's
been too long since I looked at it to remember it fully.

Hey, actually do have it on one of my Bernie HD's...it's StarLanes and it's
entirely BASIC and runs about 9K.  It does seem to run under ProDOS fairly
well.  So Jake, I assume this is the game you are thinking about as it has
all the company names that you mention...

For any more info, just ask....

Greg B.
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