HP-41 Games Library ready at last.

[Ángel Martin]

After a couple of months of research and consolidation I think the GAMES LIBRARY is ready to go public: here's a set of modules with much of the games contributions ever published in PPC, DataFile, and a selection from the SwapDisks and other sources.

In addition to the very many original authors, big thanks go to Jackie Woldering for his superb work providing bar codes for PPC programs - this compilation would have taken forever without those!

Some modules already existed before but now have additional contents or changes from the previous versions (this is the case for the Adventure modules, ADV_1 and ADV_2). The others are new images, roughly grouped by type or precedence although not very rigorously. Some other modules remain unchanged, like the FUNSTUFF, TREKKIES, CHESS, RUBIKs, etc.

You'll find all those classic games you heard of and maybe played before, plus a few more not so well known. Of particular interest are the MCODE games in the RAWGAMES module, written by C. Vallance and taken from DataFile - a real discovery. It also includes the recent contributions from this forum, MANCALA and GALAXIS.

Attached is the Library Index with the listing of all programs included, with Authors and other data. This index also includes other GAMES modules, like the original Games Pac and solutions books. The statistics speaks for itself: About 505+ FAT entries spread across 16 Modules, adding up to 156kb - or 39 4k-ROM images in total.

Some modules are already available at TOS and the CL_IMDB - and the new ones will soon be there as well.

Have fun!
'AM