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

[dsf@globalcrossing.net (Dan Foster)]

In article <20021107210702.11168.00004697@mb-fi.aol.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>
>Rocky's Boots was a great "game"--and resembled connecting logic
>gates more than anything else.

Hrm. Is this the same Rocky's Boots game that was mentioned in the book
(written by Jeanne DuPrau and Molly Tyson, circa 1986, about the Apple
IIgs's development) about having busted an "official" firmware entry point
or something similar and the GS engineering team had to work around it?

(mind you, this is from a 15 year memory of having read that book, which
we bought when we got the brand-new $3000 GS as part of a package deal ;) )

Sounds like Rocky's Boots (which I never got to see) is a pretty nifty
'game'. For some reason, that mention of firmware issue 15 years ago has
stuck in my mind and I always meant to get the story straight in some more
details than was covered in that book. Dunno why, but probably some
connection to the fact that I spent so many of these early GS years poking
around in the firmware listings, reverse engineering the various functions,
purely for fun ;)

-Dan