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Message: 5908

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 23/08/2006

Subject: There /are/ three versions of Henry's Hoard!

 

andrewbroad wrote:

Daniel wrote:

c) It seems to me that only two, not three versions of "Henry's
Hoard" exist, one from 1985 and the other from 1986. Three
versions used to be listed on WoS, but now they have corrected it
and only two remain.

In light of this, I have updated my local copy of my List of
MM/JSW Games to say "At least two different versions of Henry's
Hoard exist". But I do remember downloading a third different
version from 1987, which my Mac took to its grave in 2003!

I guess the third version was probably the one from the MicroHobby
tape, which starts by saying it's the 1986 version, but then says
copyright 1987 in the scrolly.

I have decided that the MicroHobby version, though based on the 1986
edition, does warrant recognition in my List of MM/JSW Games as a
third version of Henry's Hoard.

SPECSAISIE Compare reveals that the MicroHobby version uses exactly
the game-engine of the 1986 edition (i.e. all the machine-code
instructions are identical), but has the following data-differences:

* three scrolling messages have been edited (#99F2-9AB5, #9F00-9FFF
and #FF34-FFFD);

* "CUBBY HOLE" [43] has been renamed "HOOVER'S HOLLOW";

* "FOREST CLEARING" [49] has been renamed "PADDY'S PATCH".

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
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http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/

P.S. I have 8 more messages to process before I upload my updated
List of MM/JSW Games...

 

 

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