Paranoid

Developer(s): Eric Boisvert
Date: 1986
Type: Program
Platform(s): TS 2068
Tags: Game

A memory game in the Simon style: the computer plays a sequence on four squares and you repeat it with keys 1, 2, 3 and 4, one for each square. The magazine says it was designed for young players, though older ones may not find it as simple as it looks.

Written by Eric Boisvert for the first issue of Byte Power, August 1986, where it is described as a mind game loading in 50 seconds.

Program Analysis

The tape file is an 8,501-byte BASIC program holding machine code in the REM at line 0. Line 1 runs it with RANDOMIZE USR 32084 and then executes NEW when the code returns, unless system variable 23681 is 0. The code has not been disassembled; the description comes from the magazine.

As with every Byte Power program, the copy instructions in the magazine say to POKE 23681,0 before loading; the program then stops after loading instead of starting, and RUN 9999 saves a personal backup.

Appears On

The first issue of Byte Power, a monthly tape magazine for the TS2068 created by Eric and Kristian Boisvert of Pickering, Ontario, in May 1986.

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This game is quite simple all you have to do is to repeat what the computer does.

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