#106 GAMES-7 Variety

by: Michael Ouye; Eben Sprinsock; Bill Hileman; George Moromisato; Bill Seiler

Publication date: 1988-11-23 01:21:10

Topics: MicroCom, floppy, DOS, BASIC, DOS games, board games, backgammon, gomoku, action games, Centipede, Pac-Man, strategy games, Star Trek, spacewar

Publisher: MicroCom Systems

Language: English

#106 Backgammon, Centipede, Firefighting and more. Some require color.

BACKGAMM.COM	33408	Play backgammon against the computer.
BUGS.EXE	24064	Centipedes game not requiring graphics, v4.0.
FIRE.COM	30080	You are in charge of putting out forest fires.
GOMOKU.EXE	5248	Tic-tac-toe, 5 in a row (on an 8x8 board).
IBC.BAS	24513	Control the future of a bridge making company, by
IBC.DOC	16305	balancing research, manpower and materials costs.
PCMAN.EXE	48384	Like the PackMan arcade game.
ROUND42.COM	60416	42 diff rounds of action in 16 simultaneous colors.
STARSHIP.COM	47744	Pilot a starship in real time; search out and
STARSHIP.DOC	17920	destroy the enemy before your starbases are gone.
SWH.EXE	25088	Spacewar for the Hercules graphics adapter.

Program	BackGammon.
Hardware	No special requirements.
Software	Dos 2.0 or later.
To start	Enter "BACKGAMM".
To end	Hit "C" or .
For help	Enter "Y" at the first query for information.

BACKGAMM.COM

BACKGAMM is the famous parlor game, backgammon, transferred to the computer. In this version, the rules are the same, except you can't double dice and to bear off any number higher than what you need will do. In BACKGAMM, you play against the computer.

Program	Bugs v4.0.
Hardware	No special requirements.
Software	Dos 2.0 or later.
To start	Enter "BUGS"
To end	Hit .
For help	Help given automatically upon invocation.
Author	Michael Ouye.

BUGS.EXE

BUGS is the fast-action computer version of the wildly popular arcade favorite, CENTIPEDES. You are under pressure to kill off the centipede as it weaves its way toward you. An abundance of other small, poisonous arthropods join the centipede in its attack. Better not let any of the bugs touch you, or you will meet an untimely end!

Program	Fire.
Hardware	No special requirements.
Software	Dos 2.0 or later.
To start	Enter "FIRE".
To end	Hit "Q" or "C" if that does not work.
For help	Hit "Y" at information query upon invocation.
Author	Eben Sprinsock, 705 Shrader Street, San Francisco, CA 94117.
Donation	$10.

FIRE.COM

In FIRE, the forest is ablaze, and you alone are responsible for saving the greenery and a smattering of homes. You can dump water on the wind-fanned inferno, build firebreaks or set backfires. But pay attention! The wind can change direction just when you think you've got things under control.

Program	Gomoku.
Hardware	No special requirements.
Software	Dos 2.0 or later.
To start	Enter "GOMOKU".
To end	Hit "C".
For help	Hit "Y" at information query upon invocation.

GOMOKU.EXE

GOMOKU is a complex tic-tac-toe game that demands your attention. Your goal is to get five blocks in a row on a ten by ten playing grid. Be advised, this is not nearly as easy as it might sound!

Program	IBC.
Hardware	No special requirements.
Software	Dos 2.0 or later and a BASIC interpreter.
To start	Enter "BASICA IBC".
To end	Ends when finished, or hit "C", then type "SYSTEM".
For help	Read IBC.DOC.
Author	Bill Hileman, 2262 Lucretia Ave #3, San Jose, CA 95122.

In IBC (International Bridge Contractors) you and up to three others are big shot office managers. Each manager starts the game with an amazing $40,000,000. However, in IBC, this is nowhere near what it takes to win. The object is to wisely invest and spend your money on work crews, construction materials, and research and development. You try to win bridge contracts by bidding the right amount of cash, which then builds your financial reserves. As you increase your cash stash, you are periodically promoted until you manage to finish a turn with at least $500,000,000 still to your name! If you can swing this, you are made head of the board of directors and you win! But remember, don't play recklessly. Bad bidding or the course of events could find you deep in the hole. If you can't climb out, you'll probably be declared bankrupt and muscled out of the game!

Program	PC-Man.
Hardware	No special requirements.
Software	Dos 2.0 or later.
To start	Enter "PCMAN".
To end	Hit .
For help	Hit "Y" at information query upon invocation.

PCMAN.EXE

PCMAN is a great character graphics version of the renowned arcade game, PACMAN, where you can test you skills against two, three or four ghosts. Happy ghostbusting!

Program	Starship.
Hardware	Monochrome adapter required!!!
Software	Dos 2.0 or later.
To start	Enter "STARSHIP".
To end	Hit "X" for self destruct, followed by "#" to confirm.
For help	Read STARSHIP.DOC.
Author	George Moromisato, 15 Whittier Road, Natick, MA 01760.
Reg. fee	$15.

STARSHIP is your PC mission to explore strange new worlds and to go where no one has gone before. In this Star trek style game, you command a starship defending your star bases from destruction via enemy attack. Lightning-quick reflexes and an ability to think on your feet will carry you far in this computer-generated universe!

Program	SpaceWar.
Hardware	Hercules graphics required.
Software	Dos 2.0 or later.
To start	Enter "SWH" then hit to begin play.
To end	Hit once to stop game, and once more to end.
For help	Wait at primary selection screen, help with automatically appear.
Author	Bill Seiler, 317 Lockewood Lane, Scotts Valley, CA 95066.
Donation	$20 suggested.

SWH.EXE

SWH is the version of SPACEWAR designed for Hurcules monochrome graphics adapters. In this high resolution version of SPACEWAR, you are in command of a spacecraft trying to obliterate your opponent with phasers and photon torpedoes. You can play with or without a planet and gravity, and you can face off against a friend or try you hand in battle with the computer.

Notes

Part of The MicroCom Collection, MicroCom Systems' best of public domain and user-supported software library.

Imaged from 5.25″ diskette using a Mitsumi D509V3 floppy drive and a FC5025 USB floppy controller.

The file log is a log of the imaging process.

The source diskette was part of a household collection and may contain e.g. high score files that were not present on the original pristine filesystem. Check timestamps: any file dated 1990-01-01 or later, that isn't mentioned in help.doc, is likely not original. Some non-original files have been deleted from the disk image before archiving.

The file dosbox.conf in the zip file is not original. Its purpose is to slow down emulation.

The file basica.exe in the zip file is not original. It is a copy of gwbasic.exe from https://archive.org/details/gwbasic.exe, included in order to run BASIC programs.