ChipWits
| ChipWits | |
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| Publisher | BrainPower |
| Senior Developer | Doug Sharp, Mike Johnston |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1984 |
| platform | Apple II , C64 , Mac OS |
| genre | Programming game |
| Game mode | Single player |
ChipWits is a programming game that was developed by Doug Sharp and Mike Johnston for the Apple Macintosh in 1984 .
The player used an iconic programming language called IBOL (Icon Based Operating Language) to teach a virtual robot to navigate different mazes. The game was well suited to learning the basics of programming - but it was also generally very entertaining. The reviews from that time were consistently very positive.
ChipWits has won multiple awards including MACazine Best of '85 , and MacUser's Editor's Choice 1985 Award .
The game was written in MacFORTH and ported to the Apple II and the Commodore 64 in 1985 .
Web links
- http://www.chipwits.com (Was just an unchanged cover picture from 1999 to 2007, but now a new version of the game is coming)
- http://www.richardsnotes.org/archives/2005/03/29/chipwits/ (Much collected information about the game)
- http://www.breueronline.de/klaus/chipwits/ (Free PC version of the game, together with a review by Creative Computing )