Lode Runner (Re: How knows this game?)

[gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <30e97f84.6783717@news.pacificnet.net> gruof@pacificnet.net (George Ruof) writes:
>Guenter Szolderits <szolderits@rmdata.co.at> wrote:
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>>My questions: Does anybody know the name of this game?
>This sounds like Lode Runner to me.

>>Is it available under DOS or Windows?
>Yes, it is available under both.  I have only played the Windows
>version though.  It is not the same game, but a fairly good update
>to it using the same concept.  If you really liked the old one you
>can always play it using an emulator.

	There's an interesting difference between the Apple // and
the MSDOS game (original, not the newer release).  The Apple playfield
is two blocks _wider_ than the MSDOS.
	Discovered it by accident, a friend and I were going to try
and "make" Championship Lode Runner for the PC (when things seems
to suggest none existed)  We had two options, somehow transfer the
screen data over to an MSDOS disk or enter all the screens by hand.
I reviewed a bit of Beneath Apple DOS, and "handmade" a file containing
all the screen data and sent it over to my friend to go to work, and
on a crazed whim I tried the latter which is when I discovered the
difference.  (I thought I entered things wrong when I came up two
columns short, then I found it was supposed to be two columns short =^)

...of course the smallest screen I've seen is the (Nintendo) Famicon
one.  The editable screen is only 14 blocks wide.  (the normal game
is 28 wide, played on a scrolling screen, but then there's only 50 
levels...)
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