RE: Alley cat

["Jonathan Poon" <Jonathan.Poon () microsoft com>]

Alley Cat is indeed one of the most memorable games ever.

Now that you guys talked about it, it brings back memories of my good
old XT machine... 8) 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Drsolly
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:17 AM
To: Stephen J. Smoogen
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Alley cat

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:

> On 4/12/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Andrew wrote:
> >
> > > Drsolly wrote:
> > > > Going through some old 360 kb floppy disks, I came across Alley 
> > > > Cat, a PC game vintage 1984, designed to run on a 4.77 mhz with 
> > > > CGA. I tried it out on a modern Pentium 4 with VGA, and guess 
> > > > what, it worked! And it's still a very good game.
> > > >
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> > > Screen shots!
> >
> > Uh - it's CGA. Most of the graphics take place in your head. The 
> > music is done with the system beeper.
> >
> > But it's still a good game!
>
> I guess in that case you need to take a picture of the screen with an 
> old camera, scan that image in, and post it in. The truly pedantic 
> would have a student put in the Ones and Zeros by hand until it looked

> like the image.
>
> What was alley cat about? The only CGA game I played was the old Kings

> Quest series.. most of my games were teletype :)
 
Well, you have a cat, and can move him and make him jump onto dustbins,
a fence and washing lines. You have to avoid the dog and the old boot,
and catch mice running along the washing lines. Then there's more
levels, if you did well at that. There's four difficulty levels, kitten,
cat, alley cat and I don't remember the other one. My kids used to love
it, they were
5 or 6, and much better at it than I was.

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