http://firebones.disqus.com/enFri, 31 Dec 2010 20:55:38 -0000http://blog.firebones.com/2008/04/14/update-on-tuesday-night-football-for-the-apple-ii/#comment-122247031it is fun to play apple mac tueday night footballjamesFri, 31 Dec 2010 20:55:38 -0000http://blog.firebones.com/2008/04/14/update-on-tuesday-night-football-for-the-apple-ii/#comment-37029822Charlie <br> <br>Can you provide insight on why you pick Cleveland and Houston? Do the rosters match up with that year's teams?Tuesday_NightFri, 26 Feb 2010 15:50:55 -0000http://blog.firebones.com/2008/04/14/update-on-tuesday-night-football-for-the-apple-ii/#comment-27628003For what it’s worth: TNF was written in 1980, and consists of 834 lines of Applesoft Basic. I’m considering doing a Ruby port (for my own edification) since I seem to be having no luck getting the original program to run in one of the many OS X emulators. I’m thinking that a literal port of it will be much fewer than 834 lines (although the Basic source contains many compound lines), but that the size could be greatly reduced after refactoring. <br> <br>Gucci Handbags Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:41:33 -0000http://blog.firebones.com/2008/04/14/update-on-tuesday-night-football-for-the-apple-ii/#comment-17074814I found it on some of the Apple II archive sites (Asimov). After tracking down the lineage of the software and further acquisitions, I think there's a UK game company that owns the rights, but hasn't done anything with those rights for 20+ years. It'd be nice if the publisher would release it from abandonware status either to the original author or into the public domain. As much as I wish there were some basis for liberating abandonware, upon further reflection, I'd prefer to see a legal basis established that would allow for forgotten works to be set free. Or at least a culture of IP owners who could see the benefit of bringing classic ideas and implementations to the wild for study and creation of derivative works.firebonesMon, 21 Sep 2009 22:39:56 -0000http://blog.firebones.com/2008/04/14/update-on-tuesday-night-football-for-the-apple-ii/#comment-17067321I stumbled across this blog. I remember having a 50 page printout of the source code from which I tried to re-engineer a version to play on my Tandy TRS-80 model 100. I couldn't figure it out totally. Lots of lines of code to draw to the screen. I'd love to play it again.Michael GuzzoMon, 21 Sep 2009 18:47:31 -0000http://blog.firebones.com/2008/04/14/update-on-tuesday-night-football-for-the-apple-ii/#comment-4074356Hey, thanks for the comments. I'm a little slow approving due to the spam, but thanks Charlie for writing such a great game. <br> <br>I've given up the Ruby port for the time being...not sure I want to deal with the intellectual property right issues even though it might be considered abandonware, but if anyone has advice regarding that issue, I might reconsider. <br> <br>Akochera: I haven't seen scans of the manual. You might consider contacting Charlie Anderson to see if he has anything he would be willing to post on his computing archive site.firebonesSun, 30 Nov 2008 01:55:08 -0000http://blog.firebones.com/2008/04/14/update-on-tuesday-night-football-for-the-apple-ii/#comment-4074355I downloaded this game from the sports section of Asimov. It seems to run just fine on Apple IIe emulator version 1.13.1.0 (and probably on later releases). <br> <br>Very nice program. Any complete scans of the manual around?AkocheraThu, 16 Oct 2008 19:24:58 -0000http://blog.firebones.com/2008/04/14/update-on-tuesday-night-football-for-the-apple-ii/#comment-4074353What a great game! <br> <br>Wrote it the summer and fall of 1979...Charlie AndersonThu, 26 Jun 2008 18:29:37 -0000