Re: Taipan!

[kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires )]

8ball@cs.utexas.edu (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?

Can't help ya there, but just a little playing tip: borrow money from that one
guy (Brother Wu?) and when you go to pay him back, pay him more than you owe.
That way he acts like a bank with very high interest rates and your money will
accumulate very fast (it'll show up as a negative value).  I've gotten to
where it went into scientific notation for display purposes. 

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