"Pool"
By Bob Hensel.
ARCADIAN, 3, no. 9 (July 9, 1981): 94-95.


Instructions from the "Arcadian" newsletter:

Pool is a computer version of the Billiards game 8-Ball.  The computer will 
rack the balls and break.  The direction of the Cue ball is controlled by JX(1) 
& JY(1).  The length of the shot is controlled by the C stick at the right of 
the screen.  After selecting the desired angle & length, pull the trigger TR(1) 
to make the shot.  The direction of any other balls hit by the Cue ball is 
controlled by KN(1).  If KN(1) is at its center the other balls will continue 
in the same direction as the Cue ball.  Turning KN(1) all the way clockwise or 
counterclockwise will deflect the balls 45 degrees from the path of the Cue 
ball.

Note: I'm not sure what the directions mean by "C stick," but it is probably
a printing error in the "Arcadian."


Klaus Doerge's unpublished, modified version of "Slot machine" has been 
included.

There is an alternate, bad dump of "Pool" included in the archive.  Some may 
ask what is the point of keeping an alternate version that is incomplete and is 
clearly a bad dump (and is even marked as such).  Since only part of the 
program was saved from the tape, why keep it at all?

Paul Thacker says, "The code is clearly different than the published version, 
and we're not likely to ever find the entirety of it.  As it is, if anyone 
wants to see how the code evolved, it at least provides some information.  I 
found this program fragment on the tape Bob Hensel sent to Bob Fabris with his 
Pool submission.  He'd taped over the beginning of it.  I would guess it's an 
earlier version of the program.  If you diff the code, you can see that some 
parts match, and others are different."






Pool (1981)(Bob Hensel)(300 baud)[a][b].zip  I found an alternate (probably
earlier) version of this program on the tape with the beginning taped over. It's
included here in case anyone wants to look at the differences.

