Sea Route to India
My friend Jacqueline and I were talking about our first computers. My father had bought a Commodore 64 in about 1984 - but I don’t think either of us really knew what it was capable of - so of course we didn’t have a modem. I do remember getting this magazine called “Compute! Gazette” - I found the issue of one in particular that holds a special place for me….
March 1984 - Issue 9, Vol. 2, No. 3
The Electronic Castle: Managing Your Home With Your Computer, Getting Started With A Disk Drive — Part 5, Poker, Tree Tutor For Tots, Guess America!, Educational Games for the 64, Cut-Off!, The DataBase as a Home Information Center, Sea Route to India: A Historical Simulation
Issue information courtesy of this site. I remember looking at the back of the magazine when I was a wee lad and finding the code for this game “Sea Route to India” and copied the code line by line into the computer…having really no idea what I was doing. This is sort of what it ended up looking like -
…but I remember screwing up some of the code somewhere because Africa looked funny to me. I wonder what my life would have been like if I had payed more attention to what I was actually doing???
Posted: March 18th, 2008 under Triviality.
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Comment from Mary Jean Winter
Time: 8 August, 2008, 5:06 pm
Someone in Germany, Thomas Steiding, put together a cd of commodore games with a front end that lets you play them under windows. I don’t have the title handy, but you could email him at: ts@magnussoft.de
There are a lot of good games, including Sea Route.
Mary Jean Winter
(retired professor of mathematics & creator of sea route to India)
Comment from Max
Time: 8 August, 2008, 5:48 pm
Thanks for writing! How amazing to hear from the creator. I am deeply honored. I’ll check out that contact, thanks!!
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