Re: Back Bearing a Gift

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Aaron writes ...
> 
> Hello all!  I've been out of touch for a while, in part due to my
> university's Usenet access drying up without any announcement to its
> users.  Accordingly, I'll be checking news from this account, but my
> university account remains my main choice, so will be checked more
> often for e-mail, and will remain the location of my Web site.
> 
> The other reason why I've been out of touch, though, is that I've been
> quite busy at work on a project.  That project is now complete, and I'm
> pleased to announce its official release to the world at large.  It's a
> game for one or two players called 'Sparks', and it bears some similarity
> to the 'Light Cycles' game from 'Tron', although it also has some
> important differences.  It should run on any Apple II with ProDOS; a
> colour monitor is recommended but not necessary.  As always, I'll be
> interested to learn of your reactions to it, but especially any bug
> reports or suggestions for improvements.
> 
> The game is at http://web.pdx.edu/~heiss/software/sparks.html .  Enjoy!
> 
 ....


     Neat game, Aaron. So far, I've gotten to Level 3 and 141 points. "Sparks"
really is pretty addictive.

     The file downloaded okay under IE 6.x; but, under Netscape 4.7x,
downloaders will get Text mode corruption. "Uncook" fixed the file.

     So far, I've tried "Sparks" of our IIgs and II+. It ran fine on both.

     I have added your game to the GS WorldView archive. The file is Sparks.zip
in the folder at http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Games/ .

     Thanks for a fun new Apple II game!


Rubywand