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@@ -8,6 +8,28 @@ The money system is Rollods; each person needs 100 Rallods per year to survive.
The author of this program is James A. Storer who wrote it while a student at Lexington High School.
## Bugs
Implementers should be aware that this game contains at least one bug.
On basic line 1450
1450 V3=INT(A+V3)
1451 A=INT(A+V3)
...where A is the current treasury, and V3 is initially zero.
This would mean that the treasury doubles at the end of the first year, and all calculations for an increase in the treasury due to tourism are discarded.
Possibly, this made the game more playable, although impossible for the player to understand why the treasury was increasing?
A quick fix for this bug in the original code would be
1450 V3=ABS(INT(V1-V2))
1451 A=INT(A+V3)
...judging from the description of tourist income on basic line 1410
1410 PRINT " YOU MADE";ABS(INT(V1-V2));"RALLODS FROM TOURIST TRADE."
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As published in Basic Computer Games (1978):