Can someone give a source of the following program/game: Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, in the old QUANTA library, the 50(0?)M creature on some dozens of diskettes, I found a version of "Tower of Hanoi" (aka "Tower of Buddha" I believe): Move five (or however many disks--yes, the hard type, but not confusers' :-) disks from one of three pegs to another, one disk at a time, but without ever allowing a larger on top of a smaller.
Note this is not the one that goes up to a dozen or more disks, all viewed from the side and showing as rectangles and all in black. This was fixed at five, no more, no less, and as well drew on the display round disks of a discernable thickness, using ellipses, hidden line erasure, and I don't remember what else. The disks were light green. The programming was not as difficult as it (may) sound. It would not be entirely difficult to generalize it to a variable number of disks esp if going up to seven disks (the variation we have in wood at home) or eight or ... I had everything worked out years ago except--how to vary the thickness of the disks as necessary while still using the ellipses. I did not figure out that last bit. I have lost the annotated copy of the BASIC I made and that I can still partly visualize. It would, however, take eons to reprogram it myself. Yet another added feature would be the simple hint which allows you to readily solve any number of disks ... but which not all will grasp :-) . As I remember, the program was credited to someone named Kennedy, but I could be wrong. This is what I am trying to get for the QLer to work on who is "confined" to a skilled nursing facility, as mentioned in a separate post. As for anyone complaining about my asking about such old material: any complaints will indeed be handled when I ... take out my cane and whack the complainer :-) . Thanks much, Doug LaVerne 37830 USA _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
