This August was among the worst months in this blog's history, beat out by last November. Dog Days indeed! Mostly I'm blaming the news because there wasn't much worth commenting. But also I found other things to do.
Here is what I did: porting fun games from ye olde Color Computer News over to C#. Incidentally I also learnt some basics on hooking Visual Studio up with Git. From July 1982 is Mark Barnes' GoldMine; from the ensuing September is Steve Sullivan's Venus Lander.
I don't know if either were classics. GoldMine did at least adapt a classic algorithm, a 1981 random maze generator. (I have it as pseudorandom.) Lander games were already old hat by late 1982: even on the CoCo, even allowing for the CoCo News' late spring publication hiccup. This one, I argue, had some art style.
I suppose I could ask if anyone else has already done these, as well. Google isn't coming up with anything.
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