"Bangman"
By Ernie Sams
1979
ARCADIAN 1, no. 7 (Jun 15, 1979): 47-49.    (Bally BASIC)
ARCADIAN 6, no. 7 (May 25, 1984): 61,64-65. (Corrected for AstroBASIC)


Game Instructions from Printing in "Arcadian" (1979):


"Bangman" game program included this month is by Ernie Sams.  It has a good 
scheme for entering characters without their appearing on the screen, and a 
search routine can locate and account for multi-usage of a letter.  I am also 
including Ernie's sheet of documentation that will be a help to a lot of us.


Game Instructions from Printing in "Arcadian" (1984):

"Bangman" is a take-off on the classic Hangman word spelling game.  It has two 
novel features - letters being entered are hidden from view of the opposing 
player - and the penalty for losing is not a hanging...


In-Game Instructions

One person keys in a word to 10 letters; another tries to guess it with no more 
than 9 wrong guesses using the knob and trigger.


Archive Notes, by Paul Thacker:

Bangman (no instructions) (1979)(Ernie Sams)(300 baud)(PD) - This version has 
lines 10 and 20 removed to save memory, as suggested in The Arcadian.  This is 
the only version that will play properly.

Bangman (1979)(Ernie Sams)(300 baud)(PD) - This "Arcadian" program was found in 
Ken Lill's tape collection. This version includes the complete instructions on 
lines 10 and 20, but even getting rid of all the spaces I could find, I still 
ran out of memory. The "Arcadian" suggests removing these lines.

Bangman (mod) (no instructions) (1979)(Ernie Sams and Rory Wohl)(300 baud)(PD) 
- for the sake of completion, I made this version of Bangman with Rory Wohl's 
modification from Arcadian volume 1 page 58. Ernie Sams explained in volume 1 
page 70 that this is incorrect. I've also left out lines 10 and 20 to save 
memory.

Bangman (19xx)(Ernie Sams)(h -)(300 baud)  archived from tape in Ken Lill's 
collection hand-labeled "Bangman, Backgammon", with the reverse side hand-
labeled "New Checkers, Maze Services". It has several code changes as compared 
to any version of Bangman I've seen before. I don't know for sure who made the 
modifications.


Bangman (mod from Paul Zibits collection) (1979)(Ernie Sams)(300 baud).txt -
This was archived from the Paul Zibits collection in August/October 2021 
by Paul Thacker.  He notes, " This includes minor modifications of the code 
by Ernie Sams printed in The Arcadian."
