sarrel@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) (09/24/90)
Several years ago there was a game by the name of Chipwits that I quite enjoyed. You wrote graphical progrm for these robots to follow as they worked their way around a nicely animated 3D maze. I can't find it anywhere, does someone know if the program is still around? I think that it broke on some major system release and the publisher might not have had it fixed. --marc -- Marc A. Sarrel N7OLI sarrel%miranda.uucp@moc.jpl.nasa.gov | "Oh, _lightweight_ Alpaca..." .!sun!sunburn!miranda!sarrel | -Blanche DuBois
18215MES@MSU.BITNET (09/24/90)
I agree! Where is CHIPWITS??? I think that the folks who now own it, are missing out on potentially lucrative market - what with the low cost macs coming out and all... Besides, It was a simply great and fun introduction to programming a computer! A wise entrapenour (sp) would buy the rights and get that little baby up and running soon! In color too!
jost@acme.coyote.trw.com (Patrick Jost) (09/25/90)
In article <SARREL.90Sep24010200@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu> sarrel@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes: >Several years ago there was a game by the name of Chipwits that I >quite enjoyed. You wrote graphical progrm for these robots to follow >as they worked their way around a nicely animated 3D maze. > >I can't find it anywhere, does someone know if the program is still >around? I think that it broke on some major system release and the >publisher might not have had it fixed. > BAD NEWS! Chipwits was published by Brainpower. You're right, the program wasn't kept up to date, although the company would put people in touch with the programmer to make whatever deals they could for updates. In the last month or so, Brainpower has been liquidated. They had good products (I thought so) but they had problems as well. The founder of Brainpower is going on to better things, but, alas, I doubt that the resurrection of Chipwits is among them... Patrick Jost -- | Patrick Jost (PJester) | "The thief of Baghdad hides in Islington now" | jost@coyote.trw.com | -Marillion (Fish)