HORSERACE
By Paul Slezak
ARCADIAN 3, no. 2 (Dec. 05, 1980): 26-27.  (Original Listing)
ARCADIAN SAMPLER PROGRAMS (1980): 6.       (Reprint)


No instructions or comments were included in the original printing of HORSE 
RACE.  Very brief instructions were included when the program was reprinted in 
ARCADIAN SAMPLER PROGRAMS in 1980:

"Eight horses are available to bet upon, using the keypad to enter your horse 
(B) and the value you bet (C).  The computer then randomly moves the horses 
across the screen and calculates the winnings."


Archive Notes:

HORSERACE was originally thought to be by L&M Software and was named ARLINGDUNG 
PARK.  In the Spring of 2007, Paul Thacker pointed out on the Bally Alley Yahoo 
message board that this game was misnamed.  The game was loaded onto an 
Astrocade, compared to the listing in the ARCADIAN and found to be HORSERACE.  
It was saved with a new title screen that listed the program's name and the 
author. This program was written for BALLY BASIC.

Paul Thacker Notes:
(August 8, 2016)

I found one more unique program on this tape--HORSERACE by Paul Slezak. This is 
already on-line, but that version came from Richard Houser's ARCADIAN 
compilation tapes (and should be named as such). This version exactly matches 
the newsletters.  Here are the differences.

Line 410 has "A#49STOP" in the newsletter. The version currently on-line has 
"A#4STOP". This is checking if you pressed the 1 key. My testing indicates that 
the newsletter got it right.

Lines 50 and 60 are also different.

Newsletter:

50 CY=-32;print "PLAYER #",;print #1,Z,;CX=-20;input B;CY=-32;CX=10;input C
60 if B>0if B<10goto 80

Currently on-line:
50 CY=-32;print "P #",;print #1,Z,;CX=-47;input "CHOICE"B;CY=-32;CX=10;input 
"BET"C
60 if B>0if B<9goto 80
It's pretty subtle, but otherwise I wouldn't have realized that the version 
Richard Houser made didn't match the newsletter exactly.

Paul
