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Any relation to the old Apple ][ game?

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Evan M Corcoran

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Dec 7, 1993, 7:24:46 AM12/7/93

In article <2e1biq...@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>, j...@huron.eel.ufl.edu
(Jordan Hazen) wrote:
>
> I remember an old Apple ][ game called "Bolo," from back in the days of the
> Apple II Plus and DOS 3.3 (1983 or so?)... anyway, it was a single-player tank-
> type game, where the objective was to successfully navigate through mazes,
> finding and destroying the "bases" while avoiding computer-controlled
> opponent tanks. If I remember correctly, there was no provision for multiple
> players or network connections, though. I thought of this old relic when I
> first saw "xtank" on UNIX systems...

I remember this game! It was great fun. No, there's no relation, except
that both games are excellent (but real Bolo is muchmuch better.)

I remember shooting through the base shielding...what a game.

AMBG,
-EMC "gruff"

Jordan Hazen

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Dec 9, 1993, 7:36:54 PM12/9/93

In article <emc-0712...@nubs8.ccs.itd.umich.edu>, e...@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us (Evan M Corcoran) writes:

|> I remember this game! It was great fun. No, there's no relation, except
|> that both games are excellent (but real Bolo is muchmuch better.)
|>
|> I remember shooting through the base shielding...what a game.

It's amazing how fast this old Apple ][ game actually was on the higher levels; it
was often faster than xtank is today. Pretty amazing considering the difference in
computing horsepower between an old 1-MHz Apple and a modern workstation. Of course,
the low screen resolution and lack of hardware abstraction (write directly to
screen memory) makes a big difference, I guess...