Here's a surprise, a disk that we have had lying
around for many years that we have never even looked at! Booting it up
this time reveals some interesting programs for copying tapes to disk
with other disk and tape utilities, a couple of demos and even a
playable game that is different to most other games! The disk is
basically a cassette copier/disk utility package with the following
options: Tape to Tape copier; Single stage Tape to Disk Transfer; Disk
Utilities including Mapper, Formatter, Sector Copier, Bad Sector
Creator; Disk Sector Dumper and Editor; Basic Cassette Autoboot Creator
and Single Stage Disk to Cassette Transfer. There has to be something
useful there but you also get a couple of demos - a Merry Christmas
message with falling snow and a vertical scrolling game demo that seems
to work as a shoot 'em up but without any scoring. Aside from all that
you also have an interesting (if difficult') fishing game called Tight
Lines. The idea is to cast your bait in. fly-fishing fashion to try and
catch the highest poundage of fish for the day - a sort of Catch of the
Day! There are of course various hazards to make life difficult for you
and no instructions so you have to work out the game for yourself, but
it is not too difficult after a few goes. Altogether a interesting game
with a theme that has been explored only a few times before. At least
it's not another shoot 'em up!
Boot without Basic.
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