charles@c3pe.UUCP (07/02/86)
I recently acquired two cassette-based copies of the Epyx "Temple of Apshai"
FRP game for $0.99 each (!) at an "Atari liquidation sale" where Video Concepts
was dumping their computer games. (I was so pleased with the price, I ran to
Sears and got a 1010 recorder for $15!) I wrote a program to read the very
marginal cassette files, several times if necessary, and output a clean copy
onto a decent Type I ferric cassette (raising the output level ~12 dB in the
process! WHY do people pay $$$ for "computer" cassettes???), but the prospect
of dragging this thing in off tape each time I want to play raised some
questions in my mind.
Running the game seems to involve Basic. I haven't looked very closely at
what happens, but I suppose that, at least theoretically, the thing could be
modified to run off a floppy. At this point, I don't even know if the game is
built to save/restore characters, or preserve a game somewhere in the middle.
Does anyone have any experience with this? I also picked up an "upgrade", more
advanced data files, I suppose, but these are on floppy. Might they be
compatible?
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