Re: Prisoner 2

["Mike S. Nowostawsky" <mikenowo@sympatico.ca>]

Sounds like it... but I'm stuck and can't seem to complete it. Are there any
hints or walkthroughs available to get me through?

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 Mike S. Nowostawsky:
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"Laser Dog" <GSauer@mycolumbus.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Back when SoftSide magazine was offering the code (you had to copy it
yourself) we
> opted for the monthly disk. One of the disks (along with the code) was the
> "Prisoner". Is this the same game? It has all the stuff that the old
series on TV
> alluded to; very strange. We still have all the disks and the code.
>
> Mary
>
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> "Robert Gomez" <rwgomez@hotTHIS-IS-ANTI-SPAM-TEXTmail.com> wrote in
message
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> > I loved this game as a kid and I have it and its original packaging
> > here in my office. The game was very clever in the way in which it
> > knowingly plays with the fact that it is a computer game. At one point
> > it even threatens to initialise itself if you don't do something
> > correctly. At times it feels like every puzzle in the game has no real
> > solution and they are there just to trick and confuse the player.
> >
> > The makers of the game had a deal where, if you solved it, you could
> > send in a card with some key info about the end-game and they would
> > send you a poster. I "solved" the game by somehow getting to an
> > applesoft prompt, typing CATALOG, and just running random files until
> > I found the final "level" program. I sent in for the poster and
> > eventually got it [it has since been thrown away :( ], but it was an
> > image of a faceless figure punching out of a computer monitor.
> >
> > Technically, I guess one could say my solution was cheating, but in a
> > sense it wasn't. There were times in the game where it would trick you
> > into typing your resignation number by exiting to an applesoft prompt
> > with an error message "SYNTAX ERROR IN 123". I would type "LIST 123"
> > not realising 123 was my resignation code until it was too late. The
> > game was just inviting you to hack in to it to beat the system. Very
> > abstract and in the spirit of the TV show upon which it was based.
> >
> > -R
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:57:58 -0500, "Mike S. Nowostawsky"
> > <mikenowo@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> > >I found an old Apple game called Prisoner2 but never could finish it.
Anyone
> > >ever hear of it or see any hints for it? (It was based on the old
Prisoner
> > >TV show.)
> >
>
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