PSET "hat" graphic from old ad in BYTE

[SierraKen]

I don't know if it was on BYTE Magazine, or another 80's computer magazine, but does anyone out there remember a Texas Instruments magazine game from the 80's where you round up the cattle and when one gets loose speaks: "The cow broke loose!" I've looked for this game everywhere for decades and can't find it anywhere. I think a lot of the old magazine programs are lost forever. But you can get the ones from COMPUTE! Magazine also on Archive.org  . Using an Apple 2e emulator, I remade the old Laser Chess. I remember someone making Laser Chess with QB64 awhile back I believe.

[CharlieJV]

I don't know if it was on BYTE Magazine, or another 80's computer magazine, but does anyone out there remember a Texas Instruments magazine game from the 80's where you round up the cattle and when one gets loose speaks: "The cow broke loose!" I've looked for this game everywhere for decades and can't find it anywhere. I think a lot of the old magazine programs are lost forever. But you can get the ones from COMPUTE! Magazine also on Archive.org  . Using an Apple 2e emulator, I remade the old Laser Chess. I remember someone making Laser Chess with QB64 awhile back I believe.

I'm not sure if I'm on the right track, but is that the same as the Bulls and Cows game?  (Which I know nothing about except the first minute of that video, now.)

If so, maybe the following is an okay substitute?  https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Bulls_and_cows

[bplus]

Bulls and cows! I've done that, cows don't get loose you just have one when you run out of turns ;-)) No bull!

Update: @SierraKen

Bulls and cows: https://staging.qb64phoenix.com/showthread.php?tid=212

[dcromley]

@CharlieJV What a search!  Bingo!  (https://atariage.com/forums/topic/218503.../#comments -- the 2nd entry)
And now I remember how they did it!  Thanks.
So I changed it enough to run and to know that it is just what I wanted, but it will take me some time to get it to fit SCREEN 12, etc.
WOW!

[SierraKen]

Thanks Charlie and B+. That wasn't the one I was thinking about though. The Texas Instruments one had graphics of little animals and sound. But that's still a neat little game.

[CharlieJV]

Thanks Charlie and B+. That wasn't the one I was thinking about though. The Texas Instruments one had graphics of little animals and sound. But that's still a neat little game.

Bummer.  I dug into some pretty deep nooks and crannies, but it is going to take the right search words to match up with whatever somebody would have typed in.

But then happenstance might just be waiting around the corner.  Will keep an eye out.  Will likely forget.  Then will remember.  Then will obsessively search again because that's way more fun than whatever chore of the moment.

Cheers !

[SierraKen]

Hey, I should make my own version!    I don't remember much of it but I can rig something up.

[bplus]

Hey, I should make my own version!    I don't remember much of it but I can rig something up.

I did that once. Made a game from someone else description, turns out I wasn't even close! 

Ha! I made an original version of something very like Click-O-Mania (only things don't fall) which goes by a million other names and I suspect Candy Crush is a variation of that game.

[SierraKen]

My old friend just found this video of that old game, I kinda mixed up in my mind with this game and other one called Penultima that came on a Softdisk Magazine for an April Fool's Day joke once where you move around like the game Ultima but only have 3 things to do before it ends lol. Anyway, here is the one I was thinking of mostly, called Lasso, I most likely won't be trying to make my own version since I doubt I could make something better or as good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKvWl_iL4w4

[bplus]

Yee Ha!