I remember that Phil coded it in a shack in hawaii on an atari that was
powered by a Jeep. Rob, I think you should give some credit to the Jeep in
your FAQ.

This is from the FAQ:

Also, there is an extensive "readme" displayed if you try to boot The City
with Disk 1 Side 2 in the drive:

Alternate Reality Designed & Programmed by Philip Price
P.O. BOX 2634 KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII 96745-2634 Music (All
are Original Scores) Composed by Gary Gilbertson Using
AMP 11.3 AMP 11.3 (Advanced Music Processor) was Designed
& Programmed by Philip Price Phil's AR System Structure...
(c)1985 100% Machine Language/Custom Operating System
with software Banked memory (disk and RAM based)/Custom
Interrupt Driven Sio with 2 voice music carry-over/Advanced
Music Processor 11.3 with songbooks, tunes and 2&4 voice
masked operation/Animation Frame Processor/Advanced Screen
Processor/Three Dimensional Object Manipulaor/Multi-process
Time slotted Queue/Multi-staged Booter and system
validator/128-color Graphics via Interrupts/Multi-Process
Interrupt router/Custom Crytographic Daga Storage (A easily
breakable simple Block Chained, multi-encryption cipher using
pre-generated primary keys, with formula and keys in
minimumally secured memory and disk) Program created on...
Atari 800, 800xl, 1200xl with TRAK drives and a modified 800
with LE high speed drives with these utilities of mine: PICTURE
CUTTER, WALL MAKER, MAPMAKER with MAP PRINTER, PICTURE PAINTER,
52K SWITCH, and CUSTOM MAKRO LIBRARY. and these programs
MICROPAINTER -DATASOFT INC. DOS 2.0, FIXDMP & AMAC -ATARI INC.
THE NEXT STEP -ONLINE SYSTEMS OSS/A+ 2.10 -OPTIMIZED SYSTEM SOFTWARE
6502 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE ROUTINES -LEVENTHALL/SEVILLE
CRYPTOGRAPHY -DR. CARL MEYER ATARI OS RV A SOURCE DE RE
ATARI TECH USER NOTES 1200XL OS MANUAL My thanks to Gary for his
patience and faith in the project and fantastic music, Craig for
his beautiful pictures, all who buy this game, and God my father,
Jesus Christ my savior, and the Holy Spirit my comforter.

After this text there appears some strange characters. However, these are just
some garbled characters that made it into the string, and no secret message
(apparently, the string length is wrong somewhere in the code).

(end section from FAQ)

Mark

"Robert Hagenström" <robert.hagenstrom--ebox.tninet.se> wrote:
Yes, I do have information on that subject, along with other trivia on
the sourcecode and it's whereabouts... but I did not want to put that
in the FAQ, since it would probably spam me or Philip Price and Ken
Jordan with questions about the source.

But, I can always give you what I know in this forum (since it has been
said before by Ken Jordan and Dan Pinal themselves, anyway): It was
coded using Merlin assembler on the Apple II (source is stored on 50
disks, 140k each). Oh, and the game uses a custom OS and is encrypted
using a simple scheme (pherhaps Ken or Dan remembers what algorithm was
used?).

As for The City, I can't currently locate any details regarding the
code, but it must be in assembler that too, but I don't know on what
format it was coded on, nor how the source is stored. If Philip Price
is on this list, pherhaps he can enlighten us?

/Robert

>I have a question.. does anyone know what programming languages the
original
>AR programs were written in? I'm particularly interested in the city
and
>dungeon for the atari 8-bit, but basic curiosity in all of them..
(Maybe
>this is something for the FAQ? I didn't see it...) Thanks.
>


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