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  7. Posted · Edited by WEBmikey

    Fantastic article series, have been reading enjoying it! :)

     

    vitoco I was thinking the same thing - would be great to see these guys enter the BASIC 10 line video game contest! :)

     

    I'm really happy you're enjoying the series, thanks so much! I've been looking at the BASIC 10 Line entries and I can't believe how amazing they are. My BASIC skills are only reawakening after so many years, so I'm not ready to enter the contest yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing who wins!

  9. Posted · Edited by WEBmikey

    In 1984 I wrote a game based on "Space Assault", and it uses the same M/L USR routine to display the "sprites". I called it "Rescate Mackayino":

     

    This - is - amazing! I'm so happy that my code inspired someone to take it further, and you really made some great improvements! I like the player animation and the glowing lasers, and the game over sequence with the tower destruction is awesome! I should have thought of that! :) Thank you so much for sharing! I may have to mention this in a future article of my series!

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    You could check it out if you have a chance.

     

    Hey Bob, I just took a quick look at Space Station Multiplication and I love it! I mastered my 2's table. :) The station graphics look great and the docking sequence is cool! I'll definitely peruse the code in the near future. Antic and ANALOG were both great magazines. That's wonderful you made it in under the wire! Space Assault's graphics were pretty primitive compared to yours, so I just went with the graph paper method. Thanks for reading my articles! The next article is being edited and hopefully will be available to read soon.

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    Back in 1983 I was lucky enough to have my game code published in ANALOG Computing Issue 13. The game was Space Assault, and although it wasn’t too amazing, it was fun to write back when I was 16 years old.

    Recently I’ve been writing a series of articles about writing this game in Atari BASIC for a cool web magazine called We Are The Mutants. The series is intended to share the joys of teenage programming for those who didn’t get to experience the fun of those days. I’m trying to keep things super simple and may not always be 100% technically accurate, but it’s been great to dig through my old code again.
    I know you guys here are way beyond my level, but if anyone is interested, please check it out. I have four “lessons” so far, with many more on the way (approximately monthly). You can find them on my author page here:
    By the way, I’m using Altirra via Wine on my MacBook Air and it works great!
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