Re: Game name, I'm going senile...

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Simon Williams wrote:

>On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:01:45 EST Zaphod Beeblebrox
><ozydedanaan@n.o.s.p.a.m.yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> There was a great puzzle game on the Apple ][ in the early '80s.  I can't 
>> remember the name but here is what I do remember:
>> 
>> The object of the game was to push icons representing circuit boards 
>> together to create computers.  Your character on the screen looked like a 
>> mad scientist in a white lab coat.
>> 
>> If I remember correctly, you pushed two circuit boards together to make a 
>> calculator, two calculators made a computer, etc.
>> 
>> I think it might have been from Beagle Bros.
>> 
>> Anybody help me out?
>> 
>
>I have one on disk called Rocky's Electric Boots, which sounds similar
>though the "character" is just a blinking rectangle if I recall rightly.
>You put together "machines" made up of various sensors and switches...
>Come to think of it, it seems more likely it is intended to teach pro-
>gramming than electronics... pretty neat anyway.

Rocky's Boots was a great "game"--and resembled connecting logic
gates more than anything else.

Of course, these days, the difference between hardware design and
software design is hard to tell by watching the designers--they both
are typing "code" on a screen!  ;-)

Only real difference is that the hardware designer tests his/her code
under simulation right up until the very end, while the software designer
is often running on the real hardware.

-michael

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