Updated the Adventures in Math (1983) README
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{% include machine.html id="ibm5150" %}
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{% include machine.html id="ibm5150" %}
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This game is available from the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/msdos_Adventures_in_Math_1983);
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This game is available from the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/msdos_Adventures_in_Math_1983).
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the contents of their ZIP archive contains:
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The contents of their ZIP archive contains:
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-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Jeff staff 18688 Dec 24 1996 Adventur.bas
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-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Jeff staff 18688 Dec 24 1996 Adventur.bas
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-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Jeff staff 0 Dec 24 1996 Adventures in Math (1983).ba1
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-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Jeff staff 0 Dec 24 1996 Adventures in Math (1983).ba1
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-rw-r--r--@ 1 Jeff staff 369 Sep 17 1999 Topten
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-rw-r--r--@ 1 Jeff staff 369 Sep 17 1999 Topten
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-rw-r--r--@ 1 Jeff staff 170 Jan 22 2011 file_id.diz
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-rw-r--r--@ 1 Jeff staff 170 Jan 22 2011 file_id.diz
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So we're going to start with the second ZIP file. One oddity common to *all* these archives is the file
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I decided to start with the contents of the second ZIP file.
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"MONOCODE.000". Dumping that file reveals:
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One strange file common to *all* these archives is **MONOCODE.000**. Dumping that file reveals:
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00000c60 20 4d 4f 4e 4f 50 4f 4c 59 20 69 73 20 61 20 72 | MONOPOLY is a r|
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00000c60 20 4d 4f 4e 4f 50 4f 4c 59 20 69 73 20 61 20 72 | MONOPOLY is a r|
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00000c70 65 67 69 73 74 65 72 65 64 20 74 72 61 64 65 6d |egistered tradem|
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00000c70 65 67 69 73 74 65 72 65 64 20 74 72 61 64 65 6d |egistered tradem|
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00000cd0 20 44 6f 6e 20 50 68 69 6c 6c 69 70 20 47 69 62 | Don Phillip Gib|
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00000cd0 20 44 6f 6e 20 50 68 69 6c 6c 69 70 20 47 69 62 | Don Phillip Gib|
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00000ce0 73 6f 6e 20 5b e8 96 7d 03 35 2e 31 b8 5d 00 50 |son [..}.5.1.].P|
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00000ce0 73 6f 6e 20 5b e8 96 7d 03 35 2e 31 b8 5d 00 50 |son [..}.5.1.].P|
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so it seems pretty clear that whoever created this disk had copied other unrelated (eg, MONOPOLY) game files to it,
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So at some point, unrelated ("MONOPOLY") files were mingled with this game. I deleted the file.
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and if/when someone tried to clean it up later, they missed this file. I've deleted it.
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Another oddity is "BASICA.EXE" (54277 bytes) from 1999. It seems unlikely that IBM would have distributed *any*
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Another unexpected file is **BASICA.EXE** (54277 bytes) from 1999. It seems unlikely that IBM would have distributed
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BASIC binary with this game, because DOS was a prerequisite, and all versions of DOS included BASIC. IBM's PC-DOS
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*any* BASIC binary with this game, because DOS was a prerequisite, and at the time, all versions of DOS included BASIC.
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shipped with "BASICA.COM", and OEM versions of DOS shipped with either "GWBASIC.EXE" or "BASIC.EXE".
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IBM's PC-DOS shipped with **BASICA.COM**, and OEM versions of DOS shipped with either **GWBASIC.EXE** or **BASIC.EXE**.
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The closest binary I'd seen up to this point was "BASICA.EXE" from COMPAQ DOS 1.12 (54304 bytes). And sure enough,
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The closest matching binary I'd seen up to this point was **BASICA.EXE** from COMPAQ DOS 1.12 (54304 bytes).
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this "BASICA.EXE" is a close relative, since it contains the strings:
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And sure enough, examining the strings contained inside this **BASICA.EXE** revealed that it is a close relative:
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The COMPAQ Personal Computer BASIC
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The COMPAQ Personal Computer BASIC
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Version 1.13
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Version 1.13
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(C) Copyright COMPAQ Computer Corp. 1983
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(C) Copyright COMPAQ Computer Corp. 1983
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It's unlikely that IBM would have distributed a COMPAQ binary; if they had distributed any BASIC binary with this
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It's safe to say that IBM would not have distributed a COMPAQ binary; if IBM had distributed any BASIC binary at all,
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game at all, it would have been their own "BASICA.COM", and since that binary also requires IBM's ROM BASIC, a more
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it would have been their own **BASICA.COM**. Of course, the problem with IBM's **BASICA.COM** is that it also requires
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generic BASIC binary was desirable.
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an IBM PC with ROM BASIC installed, which is why someone copied the COMPAQ version of BASIC (it has no ROM dependencies).
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I've deleted "BASICA.EXE". The proper thing to do -- and what any purchaser of this game would have to do -- is
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Anyway, I've deleted **BASICA.EXE**. The proper thing to do -- and what any purchaser of this game would have to do --
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boot a machine with a disk containing some version of BASIC and use that.
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is boot a machine with an appropriate version of DOS and use the BASIC binary included with DOS to run this game.
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Finally, there was "FILE_ID.DIZ":
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Finally, there was **FILE_ID.DIZ**:
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Adventures in Math (1983)(IBM) [Educational].zip
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Adventures in Math (1983)(IBM) [Educational].zip
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Name:Adventures in Math
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Name:Adventures in Math
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Publisher:IBM
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Publisher:IBM
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Genre(s):Educational
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Genre(s):Educational
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and "RUN.BAT":
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and **RUN.BAT**:
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basica castle
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basica castle
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and "TOPTEN":
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and **TOPTEN**:
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The Ultimate One,83519,LARGE,07-15-81
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The Ultimate One,83519,LARGE,07-15-81
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MathsWhiz,78613,LARGE,01-01-80
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MathsWhiz,78613,LARGE,01-01-80
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Z[z],55677,LARGE,07-24-81
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Z[z],55677,LARGE,07-24-81
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[z],55197,LARGE,07-23-81
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[z],55197,LARGE,07-23-81
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Those files have been deleted as well, leaving 8 files dated "Aug 11 1983". I created a disk image from the
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All those files have been deleted as well, leaving 8 files dated "Aug 11 1983". Next, I created a disk image from the
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directory containing those files:
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directory containing just those files:
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diskdump --dir=archive --format=json --output=ADVENTMATH100.json --manifest
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diskdump --dir=archive --format=json --output=ADVENTMATH100.json --manifest
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