I have been playing Taipan for a couple of days and went back to download a copy for the simulator on my tablet. There was another one called Taipan+, so I downloaded both. Looking to see what the difference was, I noticed the first, Taipan, was a binary file while the second, Taipan+, was Applesoft and Taipan+ had two other games, Bally’s Spy Hunter and another called Swashbuckler.
I tried listing Taipan+ and due to some memory moving (I presume), all I was able to get was this:
10 POKE 103,1: POKE 104,64: POKE 16384,0: GOTO 10
The catalog shows a size of 117, so its a fair guess, I’m not getting it all. Interestingly enough the other version is also cataloged as 117.
I played the Taipan+ version for a while today and did fairly well. I was able to retire after 2 years 11 months with 4.05 million and a score of 810 which was in the second lowest ranking.
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