I am looking for an old Apple game, at least I only played it on the
apple, but it may have even older roots.

You are given a robot and a maze and the robot has to reach a
particular spot in the maze.  To control the bot, you have to build a
small circuit.  Every time the bot bumps one of the walls a switch can
open or close which in turn can change the direction the bot is moving
in.

I would like to find the source code for this program, but a version I
can run under windows/unix/mac or contact details of the author would
be a start.
Cheers,

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Request for Question Clarification by bio-ga on 16 Jan 2003 08:58 PST

Hi,

Please go to

http://www.geocities.com/bio_ga/144151.html

and check if the screenshot is the game you are looking for.

Thanks
Bio

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Clarification of Question by yp-ga on 17 Jan 2003 04:03 PST

I played the program on Apple IIe which was (green) monochrome.  The
screenshot does not look familiar.

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Request for Question Clarification by bio-ga on 17 Jan 2003 15:08 PST

Hi,

Can you recheck the page
(http://www.geocities.com/bio_ga/144151.html)? I have updated the
screenshots.

Regards
Bio

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Request for Question Clarification by bio-ga on 20 Jan 2003 18:29 PST

Hi,

I have included one more screenshot for you to easily recognize the
game. Is this the one?

Regards
Bio

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Clarification of Question by yp-ga on 21 Jan 2003 03:18 PST

The screenshots look vaguely familiar.  Even if it is not the exact
game I was looking for, it is closely related, so it will do.

Hi,

The game is "Robot Odyssey" by Learning Company, originally written
for the Apple II.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tomfoote3/DQ/id4.htm

This page has the Apple image for the game, an emulator (AppleWin
Version 1.10) for Windows, and detailed instructions for running it.

The author of the web page has also created a Java conversion of the
game:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tomfoote3/DQ/id3.htm

Hope this helps
Regards
Bio

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