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As I was trying to say, not all BASICs support colons as well as the leading space. A REM followed by leading space would work, but the problem there is debugging the code.

Not always possible I understand across all BASIC languages, perhaps a REM might help, though the problem is troubleshooting code, the next best thing is to just keep single statements on each line instead of piling up statements on the same line with colon.

The Laser computer range was also another affordable computer range, in Australia 'Dick Smith Electronics' (a rival of Tandy's) were selling those, old-computers has the Dick Smith machine dating from 1982 for the VZ-200, though the same website has Laser selling it from Nov. 1983. According to Old computers, the computers were popular in Australia and New Zealand to 1990!

I'm assuming BASIC is the language? * Avoid hot days * Write it Structurally, even though the language isn't structured (makes it easier to debug later if required) * Use Single commands for each line (i.e. avoid colons ':'), unless they relate * Use indentation when handling lines within a Loop, well I find this helps readability, those each to their own * For larger codes, it's easier to print out the code on pages, instead of going back and forth onscreen There's probably more that I cannot think of at this time.

On old-computers.com they go as far as 1995, with some 8-bit computers being released in 1994 between the Amstrad PCW16 and MicroTim+

Does a Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus Graphics Calculator count?

Sorry, yes I said the wrong thing, of course the ROMs are still under copyright. I just meant some companies have given permission to use their ROMs and while I'm unsure if there are still companies which haven't given permission, I wasn't sure what the situation was with Atari. Sounds all very familiar, though I don't know much about Floating point apart from some languages use 4 bytes for storing a Floating point. I just wondered if Atari BASIC sets aside some memory for Arrays without DIM being used since Locomotive BASIC on Amstrad can use them (10 seems to be the limit), though there doesn't seem to be a limit on the number of them you can have, which allows the coder to exceed 10 blocks in that manner. Another BASIC which seems to support this is the Apple //e. When I tested some things out in Locomotive BASIC, the array's I'd created were also stored after the BASIC program, so the code would eventually fill up memory resulting in a Memory Full error.

I was just wondering if DIMZ(9),R(9) is necessary? On the Amstrad an array doesn't need to be defined if it is less than 10, which was how I was able to get by saving myself some keystrokes for the Find the Exit games. So I just wondered if it could be shortened to DIMW$(99)?

So I went to that website and downloaded the XF25 file, which contains some ROMs. I wasn't sure what the Atari BASIC ROM came with the XF25 package which just seems to be called ATARIBAS.ROM, though I found the Atari BASIC rev C ROM on a Frontend FTP site and Downloaded that. Today when I got back to Altirra I was able to go into the Firmware Configuration and then add the ROMs: Though I'm unsure if I've set it up correctly because when I run ZOMBIE now, I get a Screen like this: Sometimes the top line crosses diagonally from bottom to top and once the game was impossible because of it. It may have something to do with which ROMs are used, though what tools were used when it was coded, though I'm by no means critizing the author. If the ROMs were incorrect, normally the system wouldn't operate, though this seemed to be working fine and the game I was playing while it was playable, it was a little bit slower than the Altirra BASIC and OS. Okay, so there's an OS I can boot on the 1nvas0r ATR? Or do I need to use the FastBasic ATR to get to the OS and then switch ATRs and use FBI on the 1nvas0r ATR to view the listing? Okay, I haven't noticed it, but have seen other emulators with a simular tool.

Yes that's the solution I was after, thanks. With Altirra I wanted to see how a game like 1nvas0r played. I downloaded the atr file and the instructions, the instructions suggested I would require FastBasic 4.5.2, so I downloaded an atr file for that and used Altirra to boot that image, which all worked, but then I was trying to load 1nvas0r from D2 drive with FBI, I just ended up Detaching the FastBasic file and booted 1nvas0r from D1 which worked fine up to the Title Screen. After a bit of pressing of the Keyboard I discovered [F2] and [F3] was my Start and Select Keys, but then I couldn't get my cannon to Fire until I configured the Joystick to the Numeric Keypad and used [0] to shoot the invaders.

Yeah!! I got Altirra v3.91 up and running with something and using the instructions from the Zombie game, I just needed to setup a Joystick. When the games ends though, there's a small BASIC Window at the bottom of the screen, is there anyway of changing that back to full screen or is that is that how it is with Altirra? The only time I could get a full screen was when I selected BASIC from the List of Cartridge Options which comes up with Altirra BASIC 8k, but when I load the ZOMBIES.BAS, the game starts up immediately.

I've played a number of games from this years contest from VCS, MSX, MC10, VIC, C64, some Plus 4/ZX81/ZX and a CPC entry, but I still don't have an Atari Emulator! I looked at Altirra, but it looks like the problem is the ROMs are subjected to Copyright and won't be released for a 1,000 years! I'm also trying to sway away from Windows Emulators and use my later Mac with El Capitan, the author of Altirra did recommend which version I could use on my WinXP box, but again it looks like those ROMs are the issue, I did read something about using the Emulator without any ROMs, but I think that only works with the Cartridge based stuff.

I was waiting for something on twitter, but when it didn't start coming in I found all the results were posted on the Homepuerium page https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/results-2022 I don't understand, the results for the Public's Choice has also been given, though if it's meant to be based on number of likes from the Twitter Feed, then BASIC10L only did the first 35 entries to Polarion I

I also discover 48kRAM made a video of some of the 10 liner entries. https://m.twitch.tv/videos/1440655600

This looks like my PUR-80 Entry! ?