Date : Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:42:29 +0600
From : "Richard Hobbis" <rhobbis@...>
Subject: Re: Yet Another Where Is This Game From?
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I agree, it's definitely "Artillery Duel"
It was one of my favourites back in 1985 at university to play against my m
ates after we got back from the pub :)
This was in New Zealand and I definitely wouldn't have bought it (as a poor
uni student!) so I'm picking it must have come with a magazine. We only ev
er got Acorn User and The Micro User so it was probably one of those.
Cheers
Richard (a Kiwi in Luxembourg)
> From: samwise@...> To: bbc-micro@...> Date: Thu, 1 J
un 2006 01:23:53 +0100> Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Yet Another Where Is This
Game From?> > > Was is definetly called 'Artillery Duel'?? Looks way more b
asic than> > other versions:> > http://www.mobygames.com/game/artillery-due
l/screenshots , more like a> > magazine type-in.> > Yes, it's definitely "A
rtillery Duel" because it has that in double-height> lettering on the brief
mode 7 title screen before it jumps straight into the> game.> > You're rig
ht it is very basic - the program is about 88 lines of BASIC and> therefore
takes quite a while to draw the landscapes at the start of each> duel.> >
I doubt it's an official commercial release related to the mobygames entry>
you've linked - I agree that it's likely to be a magazine type-in ... or,>
possibly, part of a collection of low-tech educational games. It might ev
en> have been a teletext or prestel game, I suppose.> > It's so frustrating
that the school's econet admins seem to have> deliberately deleted the ide
ntifying line 10!> > I was just hoping that the screenshot might be enough
to jog someone's> memory ...> > Sam.> >
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