Re: Looking for old apple II game

[sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article msjohnso@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (micah shane johnson) writes...
>
>When I was in elementary school, about 9 years ago, there was a
>game on the Apple II where you tried to blow up the Death Star.
> 
>Anyone know the name of this game?  Anyone have this game?

	This sounds much like the old DOS 3.3 game (entitled appropriately), 
"Death Star". If I remember correctly, you had a front view from the cockpit 
of a Tie-Fighter, as it moved through the narrow passage-way that led to
the vent-shaft (?) that made it possible to destory the Death-Star planet.
On the way you had to shoot-out (or avoid) little gun turrets that would 
try and shoot you down before you reached that vent-shaft (This was all 
using lined-3D graphics). 

	I'm fairly sure this was public-domain or freeware (or should be
by now) since there were no title-screens or copyright messages when you
started the game (or at least none that I can remember). It was also to
simple and short of a game to have been commercial -- you could finish it
it in around 2-3 minutes, but that doesn't always mean anything. I know
a have a copy of this game lurking _somewhere_ on my dusty old 5.25s. I'll
have to dig it up (if it wasn't lost over the years) and see if it's okay
to copy...

>Micah Johnson       --      msjohnso@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
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Mitchell Spector
sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca