Taipan (was Re: Best good old II game ever?)

[mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)]

mlensenm@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Mark Lensenmayer) wrote:
>Bilestoad was great fun.  I really liked TAIPAN, though.  I found it a
>couple of years ago, and tore the basic code apart, recompiling it in
>MD-BASIC.  I made a few changes, such a speeding up the ship sinking and
>tightening up some of the code.  A very well writen game.  Never did get
>it totally annotated, though.

I vaguely remember that there was a book with a type-it-in BASIC version of
Taipan for the Apple II.  It'd be fun to be able to buy more than one cannon
at a time or redo the battle sequences so it doesn't take minutes to destroy
700 ships (I'd think that 700 ships would be able to surround and ram a
single opponent :-).  Don't forget to borrow some cash then pay back more
than you owe and watch the negative debt accumulate.