This may not sound vintage. But this question is based on a Monopoly game program I printed 40+ years ago. So kind of vintage.
I printed BASIC code for a Monopoly game long ago (40+ years) from I believe an HP Time Shared Basic system that we had a remote terminal for at the local Community College. Well, I finally got it all typed in. Still finding a few errors. Problem is I have no way to run it. I might be able to boot the HP Time Shared Basic code using Simh. Don't remember much about how to use that system. Not even sure if that was the system used. But looking at a BASIC manual for that system seems to have all the commands I see in the code and in the same format. So I am trying to take the PY-Basic system that is a small Python system that can interpret BASIC code. It's not perfect and I am having to make changes to support this specific dialect of BASIC. Not sure it's even worth it. If anyone wants to see the code I can get it loaded somewhere. Any suggestions on a better way to run this? Thanks for any thoughts or ideas. Don't know if this group is even read much now.
My main question is how is the random access file defined? How does it know how long a record is? I don't see anything in the documents I have found so far. It appears to be a very in depth version of the game, even allowing for a computer player. It's possible this was from a different system than the HP. The printout does not have anything on it to indicate the system. Just hoping someone might have some answers. Thanks.
Tim
I printed BASIC code for a Monopoly game long ago (40+ years) from I believe an HP Time Shared Basic system that we had a remote terminal for at the local Community College. Well, I finally got it all typed in. Still finding a few errors. Problem is I have no way to run it. I might be able to boot the HP Time Shared Basic code using Simh. Don't remember much about how to use that system. Not even sure if that was the system used. But looking at a BASIC manual for that system seems to have all the commands I see in the code and in the same format. So I am trying to take the PY-Basic system that is a small Python system that can interpret BASIC code. It's not perfect and I am having to make changes to support this specific dialect of BASIC. Not sure it's even worth it. If anyone wants to see the code I can get it loaded somewhere. Any suggestions on a better way to run this? Thanks for any thoughts or ideas. Don't know if this group is even read much now.
My main question is how is the random access file defined? How does it know how long a record is? I don't see anything in the documents I have found so far. It appears to be a very in depth version of the game, even allowing for a computer player. It's possible this was from a different system than the HP. The printout does not have anything on it to indicate the system. Just hoping someone might have some answers. Thanks.
Tim