Version History

Version 1.8
The primary new feature is the option of having the submarine randomly change its speed between drops. This is intended to make the game a little more interesting to the veteran player, who otherwise was never scoring worse than '3.'. This option is stored in the Preferences folder, along with a new option to custom-size the Hall of Fame listing. Other changes are some modifications to the animation, and a little code-massage here and there.

Version 1.7.4
Fixed a problem where ASHCAN (developed on System 8.1-8.5) did not recognize the presence of AppleScript under System 7.x. Quite an easy fix, once I knew about it.

Version 1.7.3
When quitting, ASHCAN will restore your prior monitor settings--on request, of course. I also found a couple of teeny bugs, and tweaked the program a bit for MacOS 8.5.

Version 1.7.2
Now, instead of requiring you to change your monitor to 256 colors, ASHCAN will do it for you (after asking politely, of course). This requires that the user have AppleScript active. I also made some minor cosmetic tweaks; some users had reported that some window labels were clipped, depending on their particular system font.

Version 1.7.1

This was the first release of ASHCAN under this concept, as opposed to the older, simple "guess the number" game (Version 1.0 and 1.5). Other features:
*This document is now in HTML, with links to cut to the chase.

*Now the graphics are proportional, showing by how much you missed. But now, you're also dealing with a moving target, so you are not just concerned with the depth, but also with positioning your destroyer, and timing the release of the ashcan. You may need more than one hit to register the kill.

*A "Top-ten" list of high scores is kept, and updated, in a file. This file is kept in the Preferences Folder, where it will also be used, in future versions, to hold user-defined preferences.