Re: Help with identifying an old Apple II BASIC program

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

gipper98@my-dejanews.com writes ...
> 
> OK, brace yourself, this is a longshot ....
> 
> Way back in the 80s, I had an apple IIc.  Sadly, I let it and my collection
> of apple2 stuff get away from me several years ago.  Recently, no doubt
> inspired by nostalgic memories of my youth, I have been trying to track down
> some of the stuff I used to have.  As those of you who were into computers
> back in the eighties will recall, many computer books and magazines printed
> programs which you could key in yourself and run.  Well, I have for several
> months now been thinking about this one game in particular that I used to
> play, and was hoping that someone might remember it and perhaps guide me to
> where I could get a copy of it or the book it came in.
> 
> The game, as best I recall, was called "Politician."  It was a
> Hammurabi-style game in which you were responsible for managing a small
> town's budget -- most of the decisions were whether to spend money for
> certain items, such as improving the library.  Your rival, as I recall, was
> the town dogcatcher -- if you screwed up badly enough you would wind up with
> his job.  A very succesful tour, and I think you could go to the Bahamas.
> 
> I believe the program was one of several in a book, whose title completly
> escapes me.  My feeling is that it was a book of generic basic programs (i.e.
> type in and run on apple2/c64/tsr80 with small modifications), but i'm not
> sure about this at all.  I'm almost positive that it was a book and not from
> a magazine, but it has been a long time.  That's about all I can remember.
> 
> If anyone out there could point me to an archive with a copy of the program,
> tell me what the book that contained the listing was, or give me any other
> information I would be most appreciative.  (Heck, if you can just tell me
> that you vaguely remember the same thing that would at least tell me I'm not
> just making this all up).  If someone out there has a copy of the book with
> the program listing in it, and would be willing to part with it for a few
> (and I do mean a few) dollars, that would be great as well.
>
 ....

     I do not remember a book such as the one you describe; but, it was
not much trouble to try a power search on www.Amazon.com ...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/search/power.html/002-9483406-4186051

     The power search descriptors used were "title word is BASIC and
subject word is computers and published before 1985". This produced 115
titles. Of these, my best guess is ... 

Basic Programming for Kids : Basic Programming on Personal Computers by
Apple, Atari, Commodore, Radio Shack, Texas Instruments, Timex Sinclair 


     If the above title does not 'ring a bell', you can try the search
yourself and peruse the titles.

     Another possibility is that the "book" was really an issue of
SoftSide magazine. Softside often published several games in each issue
for a variety of computers.

     Good luck!



Rubywand