DEFUSE
By Dieter Heinerman
ARCADIAN 3, no. 5 (Mar. 07, 1981): 58.
ARCADIAN 3, no. 8 (June 8, 1981): 88. (Bug Fixes)


Dieter Heinermann submitted DEFUSE to the ARCADIAN on October 17, 1980.

Brief instructions from the ARCADIAN newsletter:

"DEFUSE is a three-dimensional guessing game where you have to locate a point 
in the center using "hot-cold" type clues."

This game was originally published in MORE BASIC COMPUTER GAMES, by Creative 
Computing, Edited by David H. Ahl. 1979: 48.

The instructions from MORE BASIC COMPUTER GAMES are:

"In this game, you are in an experimental building with one million rooms in 
it. The building is one hundred rooms long, one hundred rooms wide, and one 
hundred rooms high.

"You have just received a telephone call from a mad bomber who tells you he has 
planted a bomb someplace in the building. Fortunately you are armed with a bomb 
detector that registers a stronger and stronger signal as you get closer to the 
bomb. You start at the bottom right-hand door of the building, at the room 
0,0,0. In response to the signals from your detector, every ten seconds you may 
try a new room to search for the bomb. You have two hundred seconds or twenty 
trials to find it.

"It's fairly easy to find the bomb once you get the knack of how your detector 
works. However, we're not going to spoil it for you and tell the secret."


Archiving Notes:

The "fixed" version of this program contains Bob Dahl's suggested changes to
DEFUSE (from Volume 3, page 88 of the Arcadian).

Dieter Heinermann submitted five programs to the ARCADIAN on October 17, 1980.  
Four of them were printed in the February 1981 issue of the newsletter on one 
page.  The last one, DEFUSE, was printed in the March 1981 issue.

Here is part Dieter's program submission letter to Bob Fabris:


You were asking for programs, so I included some that I played around with.  
Side 1 NT=0, Side 2 NT=1.

1. RND Boxes
2. Electronic Blanked
3. 3D Corners
4. Defuse
5. Denominator

Defuse is a game from the book "More BASIC computer games" put out by Creative 
Computing and was converted to Bally BASIC.

Denominator is from an article by "Stephen Rogowski" written in Creative 
Computing and was converted to Bally BASIC.


The Arcadian printed the following four programs together with no explanation 
about them:

1) 3D Corners (BB)
2) Boxes (labeled as "3D Boxes" on the submitted tape)
3) Denominator
4) Electronic Blanked

All five of these program were archived from one Bally BASIC, 300-baud tape in 
the Richard Houser Collection that was labeled with "RND Boxes, Electronic 
Blanked, 3D Corners by Heinerman."

