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Project Idea: Mastermind
Jul 9, 2008 at 9:41amclosed account (z05DSL3A)
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Introduction
Mastermind or Master Mind is a simple code-breaking board game for two players, invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. The general Idea is that one player becomes the codemaker and the second becomes the codebreaker. The codemaker first decides on a code. The code is made up from four coloured pegs. There are six different colours and there can be multiple pages of the same colour.
The codebreaker then has a number of turns to work out what the code is. The number of turns can be varied in order to make it easier or harder to determine the correct code, but is normally around ten. Each turn the codebreaker has a guess at what the code may be. In response the codemaker will tell the codebreaker how many pegs are the correct colour in the correct places and how many pegs are the correct colour but in the wrong place.
To be Continued...
For now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_%28board_game%29
Introduction
Mastermind or Master Mind is a simple code-breaking board game for two players, invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. The general Idea is that one player becomes the codemaker and the second becomes the codebreaker. The codemaker first decides on a code. The code is made up from four coloured pegs. There are six different colours and there can be multiple pages of the same colour.
The codebreaker then has a number of turns to work out what the code is. The number of turns can be varied in order to make it easier or harder to determine the correct code, but is normally around ten. Each turn the codebreaker has a guess at what the code may be. In response the codemaker will tell the codebreaker how many pegs are the correct colour in the correct places and how many pegs are the correct colour but in the wrong place.
To be Continued...
For now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_%28board_game%29
Last edited on Jul 9, 2008 at 8:48pm
Jul 9, 2008 at 4:35pm
That's a cool idea! I might try that.
EDIT: Finished it, if anyone would like to take a look see I'll PM you the code. (If you plan on doing it yourself though no cheating off mine)
EDIT: Finished it, if anyone would like to take a look see I'll PM you the code. (If you plan on doing it yourself though no cheating off mine)
Last edited on Jul 10, 2008 at 5:35am
Jul 10, 2008 at 10:51am
Hmm, should I admit to programming a version of this on my Sharp MZ-80K back in the early 80's...(in Basic)?
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Jul 10, 2008 at 11:41amclosed account (z05DSL3A)
It was a Sinclair ZX81 for me, with the 16KB ram pack! :0)
Jul 10, 2008 at 11:49am
WOW! 16 entire kilobytes?!?!
That's like...a 6th of a megabyte! THAT'S GINORMOGANTUAN!!!!!!!
That's like...a 6th of a megabyte! THAT'S GINORMOGANTUAN!!!!!!!
Jul 10, 2008 at 6:20pm| WOW! 16 entire kilobytes?!?! That's like...a 6th of a megabyte! |
Dude, stay in school. 16/1024 = 1/64 not 1/6
Jul 11, 2008 at 8:19am
I had the ZX-80 (before the Sharp MZ-80k), which had just 1k, and that was shared with the screen. As your program got towards the 1k limit the number of lines on the screen began to reduce...
Fortunately (?) the keyboard was so poor that your rarely got that far :-)
Fortunately (?) the keyboard was so poor that your rarely got that far :-)
Last edited on Jul 11, 2008 at 8:19am
Jul 11, 2008 at 9:19amclosed account (z05DSL3A)
Oh the keyboard...did the ZX-80 keyboard get very hot? Then, of course, there was loading and saving the programs on to audio tape, the sound of a demented modem still haunts me a cold winter nights! :0)
I went from the ZX81 to (what I consider to be my first real computer) an Atari 520 STFM, which was handy because when I finally went to university they use them to teach assembly programming, so I could get a lot more work done out of the lab! I still have it in the garage, one day I will have to see if it still works. The ZX81 was turned into a maze mouse.
I went from the ZX81 to (what I consider to be my first real computer) an Atari 520 STFM, which was handy because when I finally went to university they use them to teach assembly programming, so I could get a lot more work done out of the lab! I still have it in the garage, one day I will have to see if it still works. The ZX81 was turned into a maze mouse.
Jul 11, 2008 at 1:08pm
No, there was no problem with the keyboard getting hot that I recall - just the fact that the pressure required to register a key tap on the 'pressure sensitive' keys appeared to be random from key to key!
I had an 520 STFM for games for a while, but then I moved to the PC with my mighty Amstrad 1640 - 16 colour VGA, 640k Ram, 32Mb Hard card, 5.25" and 3.5" floppies! Programmed it using Turbo pascal and UCSD P-System Pascal:-)
I had an 520 STFM for games for a while, but then I moved to the PC with my mighty Amstrad 1640 - 16 colour VGA, 640k Ram, 32Mb Hard card, 5.25" and 3.5" floppies! Programmed it using Turbo pascal and UCSD P-System Pascal:-)
Jul 11, 2008 at 5:48pm
It was a BBC B for me and BBC basic. Did they get beyond the UK?
I remember a friend having a ZX81 and having the press the keys through the bottom of the casing just to get them to register a key press, then he got a spectrum.
I remember those damn cassette tapes and that modem type noise only too well.
I remember a friend having a ZX81 and having the press the keys through the bottom of the casing just to get them to register a key press, then he got a spectrum.
I remember those damn cassette tapes and that modem type noise only too well.
Aug 10, 2008 at 5:25am
Oh my, stop it, you are showing your age!!!
My first computer was a Mac, with a black and white screen, I am only 18 now, and I was like 8 when we had it, but I loved that computer! I used to play golf on it! Then we got this new Mac when i was like 12 and we had that until my freshman year in highschool, and then we got our first Windows machine, The rest is history!
My first computer was a Mac, with a black and white screen, I am only 18 now, and I was like 8 when we had it, but I loved that computer! I used to play golf on it! Then we got this new Mac when i was like 12 and we had that until my freshman year in highschool, and then we got our first Windows machine, The rest is history!
Aug 12, 2008 at 8:45pm| WOW! 16 entire kilobytes?!?! That's like...a 6th of a megabyte! Dude, stay in school. 16/1024 = 1/64 not 1/6 |
Two things:
1. That was when my 4 key got messed up (wouldn't read when you typed in 4)
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Aug 17, 2008 at 8:31pm| Two things: 1. That was when my 4 key got messed up (wouldn't read when you typed in 4) |
And the other... the suspense is killing me!
Aug 17, 2008 at 9:31pm
2. A terribly written climax, a la Star Trek ("We can't have children, so we captured yours"), supplemented with crappy special effects.
And Shatner. Lots and lots of Shatner.
Combine these with a futuristic setting with about 5 spinoff series and a Vulcan first mate.
There. Your suspense just got built up for nothing.
And Shatner. Lots and lots of Shatner.
Combine these with a futuristic setting with about 5 spinoff series and a Vulcan first mate.
There. Your suspense just got built up for nothing.
Last edited on Aug 17, 2008 at 11:11pm
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