Update On Tuesday Night Football for the Apple II

I’ve had an uptick in people looking for more information on the classic Apple II game Tuesday Night Football based on search hits for my original post. Today, I spent a bit more time trying to get a running version of it going…no luck on that front, but I did come across the source code, which was my main goal from the start.

Stay tuned…I’m on the trail and will document everything fully as soon as I have something interesting to discuss.

For what it’s worth: TNF was written in 1980, and consists of 834 lines of Applesoft Basic. I’m considering doing a Ruby port (for my own edification) since I seem to be having no luck getting the original program to run in one of the many OS X emulators. I’m thinking that a literal port of it will be much fewer than 834 lines (although the Basic source contains many compound lines), but that the size could be greatly reduced after refactoring.