Re: Alley cat

["Stephen J. Smoogen" <smooge () gmail com>]

On 4/12/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Andrew wrote:
>
> > Drsolly wrote:
> > > Going through some old 360 kb floppy disks, I came across Alley Cat, a PC
> > > game vintage 1984, designed to run on a 4.77 mhz with CGA. I tried it out
> > > on a modern Pentium 4 with VGA, and guess what, it worked! And it's still
> > > a very good game.
> > >
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> > Screen shots!
>
> Uh - it's CGA. Most of the graphics take place in your head. The music is
> done with the system beeper.
>
> But it's still a good game!

I guess in that case you need to take a picture of the screen with an
old camera, scan that image in, and post it in. The truly pedantic
would have a student put in the Ones and Zeros by hand until it looked
like the image.

What was alley cat about? The only CGA game I played was the old Kings
Quest series.. most of my games were teletype :)


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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator

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