diff --git a/honoring_the_code/001 - Space Maze/README.md b/honoring_the_code/001 - Space Maze/README.md index cac9f0f..a8ad9d7 100644 --- a/honoring_the_code/001 - Space Maze/README.md +++ b/honoring_the_code/001 - Space Maze/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,12 @@ -# Honoring The Code: Space Maze -Space Maze by Micro-Sparc, as published in Nibble Magazine #1, Jan-Feb 1980 +# Honoring The Code, part 1: Space Maze +Space Maze by Micro-Sparc, as published in Nibble Magazine #1, Jan-Feb 1980. + +For this first episode I've chosen the very first issue of Nibble magazine, dating back to Jan-Feb 1980 ! Were you one of the lucky one to own a copy of this issue back then ? Well, I wasn't. At the time, I was only 5 and I'm not even sure we had an Apple II at home then. And also, Nibble was a US magazine that came to Europe (I'm from Belgium) mostly through their Nibble Express compendiums. + +Although I did not have this issue, for a reason or another, the program we'll be talking about came to me through a disk(ette) of various basic programs. I remember vividly the graphics and the Star Wars music. Unfortunately, as we will see, the game is terrible. It's terrible today but it was also terrible back then. + +Let me present you SPACE MAZE ! + +Here's a link to the DSK file that contains the code (among others): https://archive.org/download/nibbledisks_nib01/nib01.dsk + +And here are two screenshots of the game: