Re: Taipan!

[hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)]

Karl R. Dalley writes
> When I was an avid Apple //e user, the one game that I would play for hours
> on end was Taipan!  As I was packing up to move this past weekend, I booted
> up the game for the first time in 4+ years.  I have since become hooked
> again, but I ran into some bugs (features?) in the game that I wanted to talk
> to the programmer about.  I was unable to find the actual game documentation,
> but the title screen says the following:
>      Taipan!
>      A games based on the China trade of the 1800's
>      Created by: Art Canfil
>      Apple ][ program by: Mega-Micro Computers
>      Copyright c1982 by Avalanche Productions Inc.
> 
> Does anyone know or have any pointers how I might get ahold of Art or 
> whatever company owns the copyright to the game nowadays?

After much effort last year, I was able to extract the BASIC code
from the game. Its pretty neat... I was thinking about doing a GS port, but
since my other projects have taken up more time than anticipated, that
project has been shelved like many other ones. :)

BTW, Tiapan works very well with the DOS 3.3 Launcher.

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