Re: Torpedo Fire by SSI

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

On Aug 2, 3:58 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> heuser.mar...@freenet.de wrote:
> >
> > It then crashes to the prompt at which point I type LIST
> > & enter. Then the game interestingly resumes and I have a
> > two-player game - not a human vs. computer game anymore...
>
> Sounds like the "RUN flag" is on and interactive commands
> are being treated like "RUN".

Other breaks didn't let the game resume and only show
"I/O Error 30" or something like that so there maybe other
problems as well.

> > You can change their course *after* you issued course change
> > commands to the escorts - I had no crash after a "MCC030" was
> > issued following the above sequence. In fact the convoy turned
> > on the map with the ships now being drawn angled, too.
>
> This has all the earmarks of a variable that is not properly
> initialized before use on the "MC" path, but is on the "E" path.

I'm tending to believe that this is a logic fault or at least a
problem in the documentation which doesn't mention that you have
to give orders to your escort first.
It may also be an image problem but I can't really say.

> It shouldn't be too hard to capture the Applesoft program--just
> its RAM image (probably starts at $801 and ends at ($AF.$B0)).
> Then it can be BLOADed into RAM with a normal DOS and SAVEd and
> LISTed, etc.  Most emulators will let you capture RAM, right?
>
> Of course, making it work will involve getting all the M/L programs
> in the right places, too, but all in all, a fun evening.  ;-)

Well, nobody is stopping you ;-)

bye
Marcus