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B O D Y T W I S T E R
by Dave Moorman
Here's a little party game I
remember from an ancient type-in BASIC
games book (circa 1978) -- probably
edited by David H. Ahl. I have snazzed
it up some, but not really much.
The IDEA of the game is to get
together a room full of friends, hook
the C-64 to the TV, and wait until
everyone is fairly uninhibited. Then
fire up Body Twister!
The first screen asks if you have
had enough to drink. OK -- bad joke.
You will certainly want to check out
the appropriateness before the party!
Anyway, press <RETURN>.
Now input each player's name. When
prompted, press <M> for Male or <F>
for Female. You will need at least one
name under each gender (slight bug in
the program). Press <RETURN> on an
empty input to move to the next step.
You will want to read the
displayed text to your party.
Remember, this is a computer giving
instructions -- so you MUST obey.
Besides, computers do not have dirty
minds! If at anytime a player moves a
hand when not told to do so, the
player FAILS.
Press any key to display another
prompt. You can play Body Twister as a
Boys vs. Girls game or until only one
player has not failed. Press <B> for a
Boys/Girls game, or <A> for Anybody.
Now you will see the first
command, telling a player to put one
of his/her hands on a certain part of
another player's body. As the commands
continue, the mass of humanity will
undoubtedly become hopelessly
contorted. Good! Again, should someone
disconnect without orders (DWO), that
player FAILS. Press <F>, use the
cursor keys to highlight the Failed
player's name, and press <RETURN>.
That player is out of the game.
Play continues until (in the
Boy/Girl game) one gender is removed
from play, or (in the Anybody game)
one player is left.
TECH NOTES
The game is all in BASIC, but has
been packed with a font/screen and a
bit of ML to animate the border. To
alter the game (adding or removing
body parts, for instance) you must use
Lee Novak's DISSOLVER program to take
apart the three files.
Before loading "body twister" (the
BASIC program), do the following in
immediate mode:
POKE 44, 32
POKE 32*256, 0
then load the program. The lists are
all in DATA statements at the
beginning of the program. The first
DATA statement gives the number of
items in the list, followed by the
items. Be sure the number is correct
for your edited game.
Then use LINKER to link the three
files ("body twister", "body.fts", and
"body.ml"), and PACKER to pack the
resulting file to "body.pkd", which is
what the boot program LOADs and RUNs.
The only trick to this program was
to keep the Boys and Girls organized
(for the Boy/Girl game) so that all
commands involve cross-gender
touching. I may be a Rev, but I still
have a libido!
DMM