Subject: BASIC on the decmate .. lets have some fun.

From: [email-masked] (Stephen M. Jones)
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 16:55:09 GMT

If anyone is up to writing some games for the DECmate pdp8 machines, it could
be alot of fun.  I have just received the volume 1.1 and volume 2.  There
is a great version of Pac-Man on there called 'DECmaze/DECman' in which
you are DEC and you must evade the IBM, Tandy, WANG and Apple corporations
while you collect sales (eat dots).  I wrote a very simple and disgusting
Pac-Fag in IBM basic years ago, but this DECmaze is wonderful.  The
maze is dynamic on each round.  There is also a Q-bert clone called
DEC-bert ... I advise you to turn your bell down or off .. you may be
annoyed.  So I am going to try and get the basic interpreter on my machine
and start on some game hacking when I get some time.  It should be fun.

This means my Decmate is not forsale anymore  :( ...  However, if you DO
need a DECmate II or III, contact me.  I may be able to DIG up something
for you.

some ideas I'd like to see:

DECdug    (digdug)
DECipede  (err ..)
DECycles  (tron light cycles/surround)
DECong	  (pong)

and others of course...  hey .. don't ask me when I will be done with them :)

-- 
stephen m. jones ... [email-masked]