Can anyone play CANASTA?

[leenew]

Hi,
I have just typed in all 9 games from "The A&B collection spring 1985" magazine.
One of those games is CANASTA.

Is there anyone here who could test it out as I have no idea what I am doing!
The PDF of the magazine, which does include instructions for the game is at flaxcottage.com in the BOOKS section.
The ssd of the games is below:

A&B Collection Spring 1985.dsd

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If playing on an emulator, use MASTER mode as PAGE looks like it needs to be at &0E00

Lee.

[flaxcottage]

I used to play Canasta when I was in the sixth form BITD. That was a few years ago and I have forgotten now.

May I add the disc image to my archive to complement the booklet?

[leenew]

Of course John,
However, I have not "tittivated" it yet.
There is no menu, or anything fancy.
You can, of course have any updated versions when everything has had more of a test

Lee.

[SimonSideburns]

My old flatmate used to play Canasta on his desktop PC within Windows. It had a number of sampled speech files included that would be played as you went along, such as "Welcome to Canasta". I never did learn to play it myself, though.

[leenew]

Anyone bored enough to try this yet?

Lee

[iamaran]

No such variable at line 300. It's the space after TAB.

[leenew]

Thanks Aran,
I have typed in HUNDREDS of programs over the last few months and I think I am losing my sanity!!

A&B Collection Spring 1985.dsd

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Lee.

[jms2]

My daughter loves playing Canasta, I could probably persuade her to try it. She knows all the rules and so if there's a problem with it, she'll find it.

Mind you, a new Wii game has turned up today so it does have some stiff competition!

[leenew]

Apparently, there are minor differences to the international rules. These differences are outlined in the magazine, which can be found on flaxcottage.com in the "books" section.
Thank you

Lee

[jms2]

My daughter has given it a good go. She found a bug in line 2330 which I have fixed in the disc image below. Apart from that, the game played fine. Interestingly, she didn't need any guidance on how to drive it, which I was impressed by!

A&B Collection Spring 1985.dsd

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[leenew]

Thank you - and your daughter - very much!

Lee.