2, Richmond Close
Bletcley;  Bucks. MK3 7TS
England
Phone: 0908 642758


"C O D E - B R E A K E R"
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This Z88 game is based on the long-established "Mastermind" game, and was 
written for my own amusement on dark and stormy nights in far away places  
- such as Bangkok and Manila, where an itinerant male has nothing better 
to do! As far as I know, my Z88 game does not infringe anyone's 
copyright, but this has not been adequately checked and I am offering the 
game only to fellow Z88 Users Club members on a "free of charge" basis on 
the understanding that it is used only for non-commercial amusement.

The idea is to break the four-digit code of randomly-generated numbers; 
the easiest game uses numbers from 1 to 4, and the most difficult uses 
from 1 to 8; a number can appear in the code more than once.  After a 
line (of four "guesses") has been entered, the player is told how many of 
the four numbers are THE RIGHT NUMBER IN THE RIGHT COLUMN, and how many 
are THE RIGHT NUMBER IN THE WRONG COLUMN.  The player has up to six lines 
to crack the code.

The score for a game depends on (1) the level of difficulty, (2) the 
number of lines used to crack the code, and (3) the time taken.  The 
scores for up to eight players are recorded for the last five games, the 
average for those five games(Av5), and the highest Av5 for each player 
(Hi5).  

When the BASIC program (CB1) is loaded FOR THE FIRST TIME, enter the 
command GOTO 9999  - this creates a data file (CBDATA) which collects the 
score data.  Once this data file is created, its updating is automatic.

For each line of guesses, a "scratchpad" is available for the player to 
make notes and develop ideas; it is accessed by pressing the .> key.

The += key provides a shortcut, at the end of a game, to retain the same 
player's name and level of difficulty.

Apart from the amusement afforded to players, the program itself will 
have any proficient programmer in tears  - either of laughter or despair 
at the thought that anyone could due such cruel things to the good old 
BASIC lingo.  Crude it may be, but it works  - some of the time!

HAVE A NICE DAY !

George I Whiston