Re: Space Trader game

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone remeber a text based game on the Apple II where you played one
>> of a number of organisations attempting to claim as much space as possible -
>> it used the letters A thru E (I think) for Alpha Centauri, Betelguese,
>> Capella, D... and Eridani and was basically a business simulation (takeovers
>> and such) set in space.

> Starlanes.  I thought it was something included on some of the early 
> disks from Apple.  Still have a (modified to run longer) copy on a 
> Bernie ][ the Rescue volume.  8,475 bytes of Applesoft BASIC...

It was entertaining, but if memory serves they had the wrong idea about
stock splits (i.e. they doubled the value of the company).

I found it in a couple of places in an asimov tarball:

File: asimov\apple_ii\images\unsorted\game_disks_too\games6.dsk.gz
Disk: DOS 3.3 Volume 254
 Name                             Type Auxtyp Modified         Format   Length
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 HELLO                            BAS  $0801  [No Date]        DOS          28
 ATOM.20.1                        BAS  $0801  [No Date]        DOS       20785
 STARLANES                        BAS  $0801  [No Date]        DOS        9907
 SN.ILS.IN.SPACE                  BAS  $0801  [No Date]        DOS         430
 UFO.II                           BAS  $0801  [No Date]        DOS        9823
 ONE.WORLD.START                  BAS  $0801  [No Date]        DOS          48
 ONE.WORLD                        BIN  $30FD  [No Date]        DOS       19653
 ALIEN.ESCAPADE                   BAS  $0801  [No Date]        DOS       12497
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File: asimov\apple_ii\images\unsorted\game_disks_too\games9.dsk.gz
Disk: ProDOS /BSP2
 Name                             Type Auxtyp Modified         Format   Length
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SCI.ADV                          DIR  $0000  30-Nov-99 00:00  ProDOS      512
*SCI.ADV:ATOM.20.1                BAS  $0801  28-Sep-93 16:06  ProDOS    20785
*SCI.ADV:STARLANES                BAS  $0801  28-Sep-93 16:06  ProDOS     9907
*SCI.ADV:SN.ILS.IN.SPACE          BAS  $0801  28-Sep-93 16:06  ProDOS      430
*SCI.ADV:UFO.II                   BAS  $0801  28-Sep-93 16:04  ProDOS     9823
 SCI.ADV:ONE.WORLD.START          BAS  $0801  28-Sep-93 16:06  ProDOS       48
 SCI.ADV:ONE.WORLD                BIN  $30FD  28-Sep-93 16:06  ProDOS    19653
*SCI.ADV:ALIEN.ESCAPADE           BAS  $0801  23-Jul-90 11:32  ProDOS    12497
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