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Re: Torpedo Fire by SSI

Thanks, great info! I decided to try the game after reading the first issue of Computer Gaming World (the first hundred are now free to download in PDF.) There was an article from Chris Crawford about how the industry was suffering from novices who didn't know Assembly. I didn't get it because I thought all commercial games at the time would be in assembl.y. With your info I now get it. 

As for the game, I select the Introductory Scenario (number 1 on the list)
Play against the computer (C)
Novice Rules or something (Y)
Then the game starts. On my first turn I type (o) for order
then choose convoy (C)
then type MC090 or MC180
type (E) to execute
and BAM! Error.

Thanks for the help.
<heuser.marcus@freenet.de> wrote in message bdb274dd-abb2-424d-887f-13502254dea2@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com">news:bdb274dd-abb2-424d-887f-13502254dea2@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... 
On Aug 1, 1:44 pm, "RetroC64" <stede...@yahoo.com> wrote:


I can't believe titles from SSI were written in Basic.
That was a suprise for me.


The Atari version of Rails West is written completely in
BASIC (not even compiled - dog slow). Others too - but I
have a hard time remembering them.

Actually this isn't too unusual for strategic or economic
simulations of that time - Avalon Hill titles were often
written in BASIC, for example.

I tried to break the .NIB-image I have and got to different
line numbers but couldn't issue simple commands like LIST
or disk commands (the game probably employs SSI's own DOS).



Actually I tried a few images from different sources. I always
seem to get an error when selecting E for (E)xecute after typing
in a move command for the (C)onvoy. I get a break in line 4400.


Which scenario did you choose and which commands did you issue?
I try to retrace the steps then (I have no time reading the
manual - which seems to be required with this kind of control
scheme).

bye
Marcus