On 1/21/19 5:09 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 1/21/19 2:51 PM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
As to which came first, the book or the tape
Some background on Ahl and where this comes from is here:
https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n11/66_Dave_tells_Ahl__the_hist.php
Clem and others,
Thanks for the links and information. I would like to see even more of
the tapes and books from the early days made available (most modern
stuff is brought to life in the digital era and captured, but the old
stuff mostly only lives in notebooks, booklets, books, binders and
Will here is your answer:
*... I also put together a bunch of games I had written and collected from
others and put them into a book, 101 Basic Computer Games. Six years later,
in 1979, this became the first million-selling computer book ever."*
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 6:09 PM Al Kossow
On 1/21/19 2:51 PM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> As to which came first, the book or the tape
Some background on Ahl and where this comes from is here:
https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n11/66_Dave_tells_Ahl__the_hist.php
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The spot-checks I've done show the DECTape to be identical in content and
spacing to the tapes I have containing DECUS RSTS-11-013 and RSTS-11-014.
As to which came first, the book or the tape, look at this comment in
GAMES.BAS from the tape:
100 %:%," CATALOG OF GAMES AND RECREATIONS ON
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 6:46 PM Will Senn wrote:
> Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I’m curious as to the provenance of
> the tape.
>
An interesting question that I think that is going to be very hard because
of time and what we now call 'Open Source.' I personally consider Ahl as
the
DECUS tapes RSTS-11-13 and RSTS-11-14 (contributed by of course David H
Ahl) contain many 1973 versions of the games that made it into the
original BASIC Computer Games book.
http://pdp-11.trailing-edge.com/rsts11/
I've never done a one-to-one mapping of all the games but I don't think
they're
