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Flying Hamburger - May 14, 2021

Entry posted by atari2600land May 15, 2021

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So I named the game Flying Hamburger. And I made it so when the onion ring gets shot, a point is scored. I did that before I went to bed at 5 a.m. Then I woke up at about 6 p.m.

Today's goals: Making the game start with a fire button press and resetting the game with the reset switch. These were met, but I eventually had to put more code in to make the display a steady 262 scanlines.

Tomorrow's goal: select a random speed. This is going to be really hard. What's going to be even more hard is to display lives somehow. I don't know how to display lives. The batari Basic games have a six digit score. That's what I would like, only the first digit is a life counter, the second digit blank and digits 3-6 be the four digit score you see now.

I've been up all night and asleep all day. This does have its benefits, yet I want to be awake all day and asleep all night. I have to get my hair cut at 1p.m. Sunday, so I'll probably get way less sleep than I do now.