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- F O X & H O U N D S
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- Program by David Zammat
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- Text by Fender Tucker
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- FOX & HOUNDS is an old game played on a regular 8x8 checkerboard. The
- fox begins at the top of the board and tries to get "past" the hounds who
- begin at the bottom of the board. The hounds can only move up the screen
- and try to trap the fox so he can't move. The fox can move either up or
- down. All animals can only move one square diagonally at a time. There
- are four hounds and only one fox, so it makes sense that the hounds should
- always prevail, right?
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- Not so fast! Run this program and press H so you can play the hounds.
- The fox, who's controlled by the computer, moves very quickly. When it's
- your turn, the #1 hound will be highlighted. If you want to move him, then
- just press Q for UP AND TO THE LEFT or W for UP AND TO THE RIGHT. If you
- want to move a different hound, press 2, 3 or 4 and that hound will be
- highlighted. Then you can move him as described above. If you change your
- mind about which hound to move, press another number before pressing Q or
- W.
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- Guess what? The fox will probably get past you. So try it again.
- Believe it or not, if the hounds play without a mistake, they'll always
- trap the fox, but it's not as easy as you'd think to play without making a
- mistake.
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- LET THE FOX SHOW YOU HOW
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- If you figure out how to win every time while playing the hounds, pat
- yourself on the back; but if you can't, press F after a game and this time
- you'll be controlling the fox. If you can get past the hounds then let us
- know immediately so we can tell David Zammat that someone has beaten his
- program. David claims that his hounds ALWAYS win. I tend to believe him
- because I've never been able to get past them, but then LOADSTARites have a
- special knack for proving me wrong.
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- Remember, when you play the fox, there are FOUR directions you can
- move. The keys to press are A, S, Z and X for the four diagonal moves.
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- To quit the program and return to LOADSTAR, press the STOP key.
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- THE CODE
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- Making the animals play intelligently is not a trivial problem. In
- fact, if you look at the code you'll see that it's quite complicated.
- Since the STOP key takes you back to LOADSTAR, you need to press Q to break
- out of the program with CONTROL80 installed. If you want to have a more
- normal font for looking at the code, enter FINIT on a blank line. This is
- CONTROL80's command for bringing back the normal C-128 font -- a handy
- thing to know for all CONTROL80-powered programs. Sometimes the custom
- fonts we use (especially with CONTROL80-C and card games) make it
- impossible to look at the code.
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