Re: Taipan...

[ben_yates_iii@yahoo.com (Ben Yates)]

Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net> wrote in message news:<3CD7D0D3.D4FE4DF5@usa.net>...
> Roger Johnstone wrote:
> 
> > Two things I remember about playing Taipan...
> >
> > Playing it on an Apple II clone, I pressed reset, and instead of rebooting
> > as it did on a real Apple it stopped with a BASIC prompt. Just fooling
> > around I typed LIST, and was stunned to find it was written in BASIC.
> 
> I was just as amazed to learn it was written in Basic!
> 

I have a version for the TRS-80 Model-III, clearly Basic code as it
requires Basic to be loaded to run. I'll have to check sometime if the
lending bug was ported over!
I also have a graphic version for the TI-99/4A, called Shanghai, that
is total graphics, no lending, but you dock at ports selling and dock
at ports buying to do the transaction, look out for the big, slow
ship, buy cannon for the pirate boats, etc...