Comments on: I Giochi Inesistenti http://tleaves.com/2004/10/03/i-giochi-inesistenti/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: peterb http://tleaves.com/2004/10/03/i-giochi-inesistenti/comment-page-1/#comment-627 peterb Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:12:59 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=202#comment-627 Good detective work, Mark! I wasn't able to find an Apple ][ Disk image of "Green Globs and Graphing Equations." However, a number of university libraries have it in their collection, as do some high schools. So if you have the right affiliations, you may at least be able to borrow it from someone. Copies of the game have been sold from time to time on the Usenet group comp.sys.apple2.marketplace, which suggests to me that you could try posting there, or on the k12.ed.math newsgroup, to look for a copy to buy for cheap. There aren't any on eBay at the moment, but there are a few sellers there who specialize in vintage software (there are at least two originals of "Rocky's Boots" up for sale/auction right now, for example) Good detective work, Mark!

I wasn’t able to find an Apple ][ Disk image of “Green Globs and Graphing Equations.” However, a number of university libraries have it in their collection, as do some high schools. So if you have the right affiliations, you may at least be able to borrow it from someone.

Copies of the game have been sold from time to time on the Usenet group comp.sys.apple2.marketplace, which suggests to me that you could try posting there, or on the k12.ed.math newsgroup, to look for a copy to buy for cheap. There aren’t any on eBay at the moment, but there are a few sellers there who specialize in vintage software (there are at least two originals of “Rocky’s Boots” up for sale/auction right now, for example)

]]> By: Matt Diamond http://tleaves.com/2004/10/03/i-giochi-inesistenti/comment-page-1/#comment-626 Matt Diamond Fri, 08 Oct 2004 03:01:23 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=202#comment-626 You're amazing! Thanks! And I see there was an Apple ][ version by the same makers, so this could very well be the exact same game. Regards, Matt You’re amazing! Thanks! And I see there was an Apple ][ version by the same makers, so this could very well be the exact same game.

Regards,
Matt

]]> By: Mark Josef http://tleaves.com/2004/10/03/i-giochi-inesistenti/comment-page-1/#comment-625 Mark Josef Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:42:02 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=202#comment-625 Matt, the game you're talking about is, or is a variant, of the education game called "Green Globs"--a lot of schools have copies, and use it for just that purpose. Lemme see, some quick googling... http://www.academicsuperstore.com/market/marketdisp.html?PartNo=627079 That's an ordering site. I'm leaving the rest as an exercise for the reader. Matt, the game you’re talking about is, or is a variant, of the education game called “Green Globs”–a lot of schools have copies, and use it for just that purpose. Lemme see, some quick googling…

http://www.academicsuperstore.com/market/marketdisp.html?PartNo=627079

That’s an ordering site. I’m leaving the rest as an exercise for the reader.

]]> By: Matt Diamond http://tleaves.com/2004/10/03/i-giochi-inesistenti/comment-page-1/#comment-624 Matt Diamond Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:27:20 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=202#comment-624 Can't help you with yours, I'm sorry to say. Perhaps you can help me with mine? It was an Apple ][ edutainment game for one or two players where you would enter in mathematical equations. The equation would be drawn on the screen, and you'd be trying to hit certain random targets and miss others. You could get pretty tricky- my favorite trick was to add a sin(Nx) function to simpler function, say a line equation, causing a nice "wiggle" above and below, clearing swathes of targets in one go. But the game was smart and would limit how long your line could be. Two player was "hotseat". It was amazing how helpful a fun game can be in learning graph functions. I was toying with the idea of taking their basic idea and writing my own, souped up version for the Mac. I'd really like to know what the old one was called though. Good luck in your own search... Can’t help you with yours, I’m sorry to say. Perhaps you can help me with mine? It was an Apple ][ edutainment game for one or two players where you would enter in mathematical equations. The equation would be drawn on the screen, and you’d be trying to hit certain random targets and miss others. You could get pretty tricky- my favorite trick was to add a sin(Nx) function to simpler function, say a line equation, causing a nice “wiggle” above and below, clearing swathes of targets in one go. But the game was smart and would limit how long your line could be. Two player was “hotseat”.

It was amazing how helpful a fun game can be in learning graph functions. I was toying with the idea of taking their basic idea and writing my own, souped up version for the Mac. I’d really like to know what the old one was called though.

Good luck in your own search…

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