Computer Acquire from Avalon Hill

[JonnyBritish]

Anyone play this before? I can load it without error from an original tape but then see a single line at the top saying press the Y key but then nothing else happens.

 

Anyone else got this and played it?

[Nukey Shay]

Running the game with Basic present will crash the game in emulation (pretty much as you described...accepting a few prompts for player options and then freezing). You are not trying to do that, right?

[JonnyBritish]

Running the game with Basic present will crash the game in emulation (pretty much as you described...accepting a few prompts for player options and then freezing). You are not trying to do that, right?

 

You were right!!

 

I was booting on an Atari 800 with a 1010 tape deck. I had read that the game was written in BASIC so of course had the BASIC cartridge installed. Now I loaded without the cartridge and its running. Of course using simple text display to represent the board.

 

There appears to be no CAS file on Atarimania so I need to get an old tape deck and use the WAV2CAS? tool to get an image.

 

Interesting, there is a version of the boardgame on the internet written in Microsoft BASIC complete with gui display. Might be interesting to see if I can get that converted to Atari, perhaps using Atari Microsoft BASIC then start making it a bit more graphical

 

thanks for your help!

[Nukey Shay]

Might have been written using Basic (and maybe even encorporating some of it's FP routines...if those were exported into the program later to make it standalone - which would have been necessary for the 16k program to be compatable with the 16k Atari 400).

 

But it is definately not written in Basic.

 

Alternately, it could have been written in Basic and then compiled into machine code (so long as the original program was short enough for the compiled code+runtime module to be < 16k). Avalon Hill seems to have released it's fair share of Basic programs back in the day when free enterprise was as simple as releasing homespun Basic programs in baggies at 10 bucks a pop to the program-starved market. Ahh...the good old days

[sloopy]

ahh Acquire, my favorite board game growing up... my parents had it, and it was the best... i rem seeing this, and remembering the other Avalon Hill game i had tried, i didnt like at all... so i skipped it, not wanting to possibly 'ruin' it for me...

 

in college for my C programming class, we had a course project, was to be done during the semester, in addition to the regular weekly work. it was to be an application of some type. Most commonly were games, but other things were done too... but the class was split up into groups of 3-5 students per. Well me and this one guy were special, as we already knew C,we were in our own group. (i was even the TA, for the 100/200/300 level programming courses, C, Pascal, x86 Assembler) I submitted a proposal to do a version of Acquire, using TCP/IP and have online play... This professor didnt approve of course appropriate assignments, (this was a 200 level class), he ok'd student appropriate projects, and said that it would be too easy for us to make in a semester...

 

 

sloopy.

Edited September 13, 2010 by sloopy

[spookt]

 

There appears to be no CAS file on Atarimania so I need to get an old tape deck and use the WAV2CAS? tool to get an image.

 

 

Use Kr0tki's a8cas instead. I've been using it this weekend and have a really high success rate. I dumped half a dozen images which converted fine right off the bat and then hit one which is proving a little problematic.

Edited September 13, 2010 by spookt