Bonjour,

This month, I am proposing to you the adaptation of the board
game "OODUNNIT" or also known as "WHODUNNIT" and "CLUE". A crime was
committed and you must find the name, the weapon and the room in
which the crime was committed.

The original program was created by S. Greaves and was published
in the British magazine ZX COMPUTING of Mar/Apr 85 but the listing
was amputated of the important line 0(zero).

In this version, I recreated this line, added numerous
modifications and re-coded the entire program. I am particularly
proud of the algorithm guiding the the computer to the solution of
the crime. The original game was slow, this version is fast. I hope
you will enjoy it.

Programs like this require hundreds of hours of work. The choice
of pictures limited by the ZX81 graphics, the choice of words, the
choice of texts to be understanded by people of many different
languages, the creation of (fast) animation (in basic, on a ZX81),
the difficult translation for the French version (the French words
are always too long), the creation of algorithms to make the computer
smarter, the compaction of the code to fit under 16KB of memory, the
debugging and the polishing of the game down to the smallest details,
all of that requires long hours of work.but it makes those
UNBELIEVABLE programs for you to enjoy.

Last month program "IZXOLA" went through that process. On a scale
of 1 to 10, how do you rate the graphics? The title page? The infos
page(s)? The animation? The intelligence of the computer play? How
will you rate this month program?

The "ALIEN MIND" is coming....

I will reveal my "ALIEN MIND" at the MICROFAIR on the week-end
of the 10 to 12 March 2006 in Germany. Visit http://www.zx-team.de
for more info. Be there for the latest in hardware and software and
to meet the other ZX81 users.

Also remember to visit http://www.zx-team.de/andre to see the
monthly picture made with and only a ZX81.


Goodby(t)e, ANDRE