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Tuesday, 21 April 2026

"Ghost Ship/Yuureisen" by Yasuhiro Kume (1982)

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With some help from Jason Dyer and Gunther Schmidl I was able to get hold of the source code of an early Japanese basic text adventure game ...
Monday, 23 March 2026

In Search of "Dojin" by Hiroshi Suzuki (1980) Update 3

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My son Charlie did a little play testing and he wondered about the ability of the enemies to "jump off" the obstacle.  I had added...
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Saturday, 21 March 2026

In Search of "Dojin" by Hiroshi Suzuki (1980) Update 2

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Well I simply answered some of my own questions from the prior post and continued developing my attempted recode of "Dojin" based ...
Friday, 20 March 2026

In Search of "Dojin" by Hiroshi Suzuki (1980) Update 1

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I have been working on my implementation of the first variation of the rough sketch of the game provided by Mr. Suzuki.  I now have a workin...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

In Search of "Dojin" by Hiroshi Suzuki (1980)

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John Szczepaniak emailed me with a suggestion for a possible "recoding" project (He'd noticed I do such projects) regarding a ...
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Saturday, 21 February 2026

"Nellan is Thirsty" by Dr. Furman H. Smith (1980)

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SPOILER ALERT!  The above is a complete walkthrough of the game. This program is from the July/August 1980 issue of Recreational Computing M...
Sunday, 15 February 2026

"Checkers" by John Collins (1979)

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I ran across a neat post on the Atari Archives Site  that discusses very early computer versions of Checkers. Kevin Bunch mentioned a versio...