T.COLLINS BOOT
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FILENAME(S): T.COLLINS BOOT
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... C O L L I N S.. A GHOSTLY SOLITAIRE.. BY MAURIC E JONES... COLLINS, LIKE CANFIELD, IS NAMED.FOR ITS CREATOR AND THEREBY HANGS A.TALE... BACK WHEN I WAS STILL TEAC HING.AND TIME-SHARING ON A MAIN FRAME, I .WALKED INTO THE COMPUTER ROOM WHERE A.T ERMINAL WAS PRINTING FURIOUSLY. I.WONDE RED WHAT STUDENT WAS RUNNING A.PROGRAM W ITH SUCH LONG PRINTOUT THAT.HE COULD LEA VE THE ROOM. I STUDIED.THE PRINTOUT FOR A MOMENT AND WAS.AMAZED TO SEE THAT A G AME OF ADVENTURE.WAS BEING PLAYED. THAT 'S RIGHT, BEING.PLAYED. IT IS, OF COURS E, AN.INTERACTIVE GAME... EVEN AS I S TARTED TO WONDER, I.KNEW THE ANSWER. T HE TERMINAL WAS.BEING OPERATED BY THE GH OST OF FLOYD.COLLINS, A CAVE EXPLORER WH O WAS LOST.IN A CAVE IN THE LATE TWENTIE S OR THE.EARLY THIRTIES. SOMEHOW HE WAS IN MY.MIND, TELLING ME MORE THAN I WANT ED.TO KNOW. HE ASSURED ME THAT HE WOULD .BE DISCREET AND NOT LET ANYONE ELSE.SEE HIM PLAY. HE CONVINCED ME OF THE.NEED FOR SECRECY BY STIRRING UP.VISIONS OF GU YS IN WHITE COATS COMING.AFTER ME. IT D IDN'T TAKE A ROCKET.SCIENTIST TO GET THE POINT... FOR A WHILE HE PLAYED OFTEN , AND.SOON HIS NAME WAS CONSTANTLY ON TH E.DAILY AND MONTHLY HIGH SCORE LIST. HE .SIGNED HIMSELF G F (GHOST OF FLOYD).COL LINS. WHEN HE SOLVED ALL THE.RIDDLES IN THE COLOSSAL CAVE HE TRIED.STAR TREK, B UT THOUGHT IT WAS A DUMB.GAME. HE SPENT A FEW SESSIONS PLAYING.LIFE AND THEN TO LD ME HE WAS GOING.BACK TO THE "OTHER PL ACE". WHEN I ASK.HIM WHERE THE OTHER PL ACE WAS HIS.REPLY WAS, "YOU ARE BETTER N OT TO.KNOW." THAT WAS THE ANSWER I ALWA YS.GOT IF I ASKED ANYTHING RELATED TO.BE ING DEAD. HECK, HE WOULDN'T EVEN.TELL M E ABOUT HIS LIFE WHILE ALIVE..AT ANY RAT E, IT WAS A WHILE BEFORE I.HEARD FROM HI M AGAIN... WHEN I TOOK A DISABILITY.R ETIREMENT, I BOUGHT MY FIRST C-64 AND.MO VED TO OUR FARM IN EAST TEXAS,.EIGHTY MI LES FROM SHREVEPORT. I.SUBSCRIBED TO LO ADSTAR AT ISSUE 25,.BOUGHT ALL THE BACK ISSUES, AND.EMBARKED ON A NEW CAREER AS LOADSTAR.CRITIC EMERITUS... ONE DAY I WAS PLAYING SPECTRUM.(LS #4) WHEN, WITH OUT WARNING, G F.REMARKED, "I LIKE SOLIT AIRE GAMES.".HE WAS BACK. IT TURNED OUT THAT G F.COULD PLAY SOLITAIRE BY SIMPLY .IMAGINING A SHUFFLED DECK AND THEN.MENT ALLY LAYING OUT THE TABLEAU,.RESERVE AND OTHER CARDS AS NEEDED IN A.PARTICULAR G AME. ALL HE NEEDED WAS TO.LEARN THE LAY OUT AND THE RULES AND.PRACTICE A FEW TIM ES... AT HIS REQUEST, I STARTED TO.WR ITE CARD SIMULATIONS AND ARTICLES.ON PRO GRAMMING. I FIGURED THAT IF I.EXPLAINED MY IDEAS I WOULD BE FORCED.TO DEVELOP G OOD ROUTINES. FENDER HAD.ARRIVED AT LOA DSTAR BY THIS TIME, BUT.THE TOWER HAD NO T YET BEEN BUILT. AT.ANY RATE FENDER AG REED TO PUBLISH MY.FIRST ARTICLE, WITH A CARD DEMO, ON.ISSUE #56 AND THE REST IS HISTORY... G F CAME AROUND OCCASIONA LLY.AFTER THAT. HE WAS LIKELY TO SHOW U P.IF THERE WAS A NEW SOLITAIRE ON.LOADST AR, OR SOMETIMES FOR OTHER TYPES.OF GAME S. AMONG THE GAMES HE LIKED.BEST WERE N IGHT.MISSION (#54),.WIZARD'S.DOOM (#76), LINX.(#79), AND.ALL THE CARD GAMES. HE LEARNED ALL OF.THE SOLITAIRES THAT I PR OGRAMMED, EVEN.PROMPTED ME TO WRITE SOME OF THEM... I TOLD G F ABOUT FENDER'S IDEA OF.WRITING CARD GAMES WHICH WOULD BE.DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE TO PLAY WITH. CARDS. (OUR JOINT EFFORT,.ROTATO.POKER IS ON #104.) G F'S.REACTION WAS, "IT IS NO PROBLEM FOR.ME TO ROTATE THOSE BABIE S. I WILL.HAVE TO THINK ABOUT HIS PROPO SITION.AS IT WOULD APPLY TO ME.".. A FEW DAYS LATER HE SHOWED UP AND.SAID, "T HE OBVIOUS ANSWER IS A GAME.WHICH COULD NOT BE PLAYED IF CERTAIN.CARDS WERE EVEN .KNOWN." HE THEN.PROPOSED THE GAME I HA VE NAMED IN HIS.HONOR. IT TURNS OUT THA T WE MORTALS.CAN PLAY COLLINS IF WE USE CARDS OR.COMPUTER, BUT OF COURSE, G F CA NNOT.USE REAL CARDS... COMPLETE INSTR UCTIONS FOR.COLLINS, WHICH CAN BE PLAYED USING.ESP OR PROBABILITIES, ARE CONTAIN ED.IN THE PROGRAM ITSELF... I HAVE A FEELING THAT G F WILL.THINK OF MORE CARD SOLITAIRES IN THIS.VEIN...MJ..FENDER'S NOTE: WHILE G F COLLINS HAS.NOT DEMONSTR ATED THE PENCHANT FOR.EVIL THAT KNEES CA LHOON HAS, I THINK.IT'S IN THE BEST INTE RESTS OF THE.WORLD AS WE KNOW IT THAT TH ESE TWO.QUASI-ENTITIES BE KEPT APART. I HAVE.LITTLE HOPE FOR THIS, HOWEVER, AND AM.RESIGNED TO A COLLINS/CALHOON DEBACL E.IN THE NEAR FUTURE. MAY GOD HAVE.MERC Y ON OUR SOULS... **** R - RUN RETUR N - MENU ****.
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