"aMAZEd in SPACE"
By Aquila and Richard Houser
ARCADIAN 1, no. 8 (Jul. 20, 1979): 58, 60-61.


Description from Arcadian:

aMAZEd in SPACE game included in this issue is a rocketship-thru-the-maze challenge with a number of levels of difficulty. One problem is that I've lost the name of the originator. I sent the material to Dick Houser who made a few modifications and prepared the descriptive material. Note how he has separated the listing into blocks that correspond with the flow chart. The program lines marked C are just for information and do not go into the machine.


From Dick's hand-written program instructions:

Maneuver spaceship thru maze without crashing into walls.  Direction is controlled by joystick 1. Path size, maze height, maze width and degree of difficulty, are selected by keyboard input.  Score is based on these inputs and time taken to complete maze. It takes quite awhile to complete maze interior, so start small.


Select Hand-Written Comments from Aquila's January 1, 1979 Letter:

This was my first try at writing a program on ANY computer, so if you see things to improve, PLEASE improve it for whatever reason.

You could get rid of plenty PRINT stuff and also the changing star pattern at the end.  I just put those in for effect?

Archive Notes:

- aMAZEd in SPACE (mod from Paul Zibits collection) (19xx)(Aquila and Richard Houser)(300 baud) - This was archived from the Paul Zibits collection in August/October 2021 by Paul Thacker.  He notes, "This includes several small differences compared to the code by Aquila and Richard Houser printed in The Arcadian. As some of these are clearly incorrect, and the program will not run as found on the tape, this may be simply input errors that were never corrected. I'm uploading it as is for completeness."


