Date   : Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:19:19 +0100
From   : "A. J. Davis" <mail@...>
Subject: Re: Classic train game for the BBC Micro?

Richard_Talbot-Watkins@... wrote:

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>>Hi everyone.
>>I'm trying to track down a very old issue of Acorn User magazine
>>- from the mid-80's when the BBC Micro ruled the roost. I can't
>>remember anything more about it that the game and article I'm
>>looking for. Don't suppose this jogs anyone's memory does it? :
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>"The Train Game" was in Acorn User Jan 84, as pointed out by others, but
>was "remixed" in a much later edition (early 90's) with a faster machine
>code track layer and rewritten for clarity.  Unfortunately, I can't
>remember which issue it was in - it was probably in the "Pieces of Eight"
>section, where they revisited classic 8-bit type-ins from the past.  I just
>remember the comment that the original code was so unintelligable with
>GOTOs and meaningless variable names that a rewrite was in order.  The
>rewrite was better in that you could watch the track being built up,
>including all its failed attempts at track placement, nice and quickly.
>Anyone else remember this?
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I think the game is here:


http://www.stairwaytohell.com/bbc/archive/diskimages/Various/TheTrainGame.zip