Frozone212

thanks for the help

I figure I would return the favor because some fat guy named Christiansen whom worked at a RadioShack Computer Center did the same for me when I was shit-faced green. Fixed up a listing for a Lunar Landing game that kept crashing. This on the TRS-80 Pocket Computer back in 1980.

So fat his chair sang the Star Spangled Banner everytime he sat down. Probably died a week later from clogged arteries.

So like this guy?

don't know what i did. All i did was uncheck true drive, save, then recheck.

I don't have the best luck with saving to disk. I think i'm cursed lol

Line 14: The INPUT statement won't accept just a blank line, you need to type something.

Line 15: The GET statement will flash by in 1/100 of a second, with practically no chance of pressing "S". Perhaps you want the opposite action, that the GET statement waits until A$ is not blank.

Line 18: The INPUT statement needs a numeric input like pointed out before. Any letters typed in will cause ?REDO FROM START. You might want to indicate that the user should give a number 1-3.

Line 23: The FOR loop goes from 1 to 2, then you check if the loop variable is 1 which it never can be. However it will always be 2 so it skips to line 28, meaning a bunch of PRINT statements and the DATA statements never are read. It might be just as well, because you're trying to read string data into an numeric variable that would lead to ?TYPE MISMATCH error.

Line 39: The DIM is superfluous as I pointed out elsewhere, but as long as you only run it once it doesn't hurt.

Line 68: You use LIST in the middle of the program. I believe that will stop execution?

Line 179: You're missing an ending parenthesis on the TAN formula.

Line 181: You initiate a FOR loop, followed by a numeric INPUT that will overwrite the loop variable, but since you have no NEXT, it might not matter.

Line 204: You're missing an ending parenthesis on the formula.

All that is strictly from a code perspective, nothing about how the gameplay is.

does the commodore PET have a way to print to the top right and left of the screen? There's no print at command.

i've only just started. I never expected such responses though. Stereotype or not, i really don't care. CC made his choice. so, plug away if you will, i'm in the mood for a row. 

What you do or do not do really doesn't matter to me one way or the other.  However, if you're going to go posting on the Internet about your personal habits (whatever those may be) and invite commentary on them, you should expect commentary on them.  That commentary may not be what you thought it would be, so learn to handle it.

But do stop taking yourself so seriously.  It'll benefit you in the long run, trust me.

ok

slight problem. BASin needs the 48k rom but when i supply it, it refuses to run

nevermind

I LOVE IT! thanks carl, saved me a headache

Then play Tomb Raider and Duke Nukem. Also: what do you mean when you say “you converted it into Windows 98”? You installed Win 98 on a modern PC? 

Well convert isn't the right word, I just put the desktop to win 98 and used the retrobar.

also, I don't have a joystick

I don't know what an isolinear chip is but I hear if ya put it up yer bum, it becomes rectilinear...

The sharp edges often cut you a new one.

Google image search to learn all you need to know. They are the generic modular circuit parts that Geordi and Data play around with from time to time in StarTrek Next Gen.

https://www.google.com/search?q=isolinear+chip

M.2 SSDs are about the same size, thinner, and not as colorful as the 1980's stuff.

Oops left a word out!...And I misspelled Rectal-linear!

^ I can second that recommendation!  I can also recommend "Digital Minimalism" (both the book and the practice) by the same author, Cal Newport.  I have both books, and they're very interesting.

(I would also agree about the problems people have maintaining concentration and focus.  Social media in particular has been ruinous.)

Syntax Error at line 2090 ... then trying to find the one misplaced digit in a long line of machine code. Great times.

@Frozone212 There should be plenty of imported examples on eBay, or you could import one yourself. Famicom can play American games through an adapter, or you could just get an everdrive and play NES roms on it.

@thanatos That’s the interesting part; people complain about retro video game prices keep going up these days, but adjusted for inflation, barely any games have reached their original price when new yet. 

I think I paid $150 for my SNES, in 1992 (I think).  It was used (barely) came in the box, 2 controllers, Super Mario World plus 2 football games (which I really didn't care about).

OTOH,  My Analogue NT Mini Noir was $499!   Plus now I have Everdrives for lots of stuff (and lots of carts).

@CPUWIZ - That English Parakeet I mentioned getting soon-because of "English", I'd already considered naming it Ozzy, I can't BELIEVE I wasn't even thinking about that, uhh..."incident".

Definitely, now. Ozzy it is!

Ozzy bit off the head of a bat, but close enough.

He said he thought it was a rubber bat someone threw onstage, but I think the truth is that he was to high to know what he was doing. Obviously, he couldn't smell it.

I hope not.  I also beat all the Xexyzs.

I got the the final level of Blaster Master but never beat it. I really enjoyed the game but I wish I had persisted.

Yup.  Have to kill(farm) lots of enemies and collect hearts to power up your character between levels and find doors.  That game has 5 different endings depending how many hearts/power up you have in possession.  Kid Icarus 2 for the Gameboy is more forgiving, so I would play that game first.

Not sure I read anything about bluejay selling anything??

But. Anyways. I'm an Apple II guy. And I appreciate the low-power and reduced chip count of the Platinum //e. And thus reduced heat.

You won't get the best graphics or sound. But you will get hardcore grassroots computing late 1970's style.

Old Dude answer-

Mow a lot of yards this Summer, if it's your money, it'll be easier to convince your Mom.

That's what I did as a pre & early teen - to get a lot of my Apple II stuff.

I don't think they'd allow that on fanfiction.net.

Never saw the others growing up in the US.

I'd have to say 2014. If only because I never got to see was 2000

i'd love to write it though

Keep going with the details

@Frozone212

Perhaps it came across in dry manner… it would make for a nice absurd comedy methinks…

Godzilla vs Psycho: like, as if it could be a competition… a remotely fair fight…

Bates would end up either flat or fried or a combo.

'neutered'

Neuter?   I barely know'er!   ahahaaaa

We're all happy you are getting spayed.  Punctuation is impotent (SIC)

Looks like a troll who thinks he’s funny. 

I sadly know a lot of people who really believe in this sort of thing. Every time I open my phone I get a new message from my uncle about how Bill Gates runs a death cult who want to kill 99% of all people or how the US government is trying to kidnap kids. I don’t understand how anyone could be so convinced by weird Facebook comments made by a couple or deranged people. 

Desecration of the dead is a felony. Somebody arrest this idiot

Acclaim has a special place in my heart for publishing Extreme-G, the only reason I bought an N64 was for that game.

Rare released a game compilation called Rare Replay, and it had 7 NES games on it (plus a bunch of other games):

Battletoads

Cobra Triangle

Digger T. Rock

R.C. Pro-Am

R.C. Pro-Am II

Snake Rattle´n Roll

Solar Jetman

I have played all those except Solar Jetman and Digger T. Rock.

R.C. Pro-Am II is my favourite NES game, and one of my favourite games of all time. You have to play it in multiplayer, though. Preferably 4-player.

I'm not saying i hate LJN (Terminator 2 is somewhat decent) but i have so many bad memories of poorly licensed games on the NES that i get flashbacks every time i play on an emulator. It's to the point where i hate even the legitimately good ones like Mega man because i can't take the difficulty curve. Tetris is fine though

It is said however, that from a few sips, Most people will pick the sweetest one, which does not necessarily equate to the one they'd rather drink a whole bottle of...

I must have been remembering this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Stuff

Anyways, I prefer coke to pepsi. Pepsi feels like they tried to imitate coke’s taste, and when they failed, they just added more sugar to compensate. 

@bluejay Of course in the old days, colas were cure-alls sold from wagons, example Dr. Pepper (sounds like a Dr's tonic);  Coca-Cola was a stimulant featuring Cocaine as an early ingredient, and Pepsi has Pepsin-a digestive enzyme...

My favorite games on the collection were river raid and pitfall. Who contributed the homebrews though?

one of the gamefly reviews is freaking laughable:

Oh, no, not legitimizing what they are saying, but I totally understand the ignorance(that's not quite meant as backhanded as it sounds...).

I first got the PS1 Activision Classic games when it was new, 20+ years ago-I kinda just kept up with what was current then, casually, mostly RPG's, grew up with games, had Atari around but was a tad to young to be any good at it.

Seemed like a good deal, all those games, for 20$, lol, yaya!

Well, I got it home, and it sucked, bad.

Not for the reasons I say now, I wasn't good enough then to discern, but I honestly remember thinking, "Sad this is dead, because no one is ever gonna want to play this old assed shit ever again".

So, flash forward 20+ years, I'm into the retro more than anything, and digging back even farther than what I grew up with, have learned about the Atari(2600), gotten good at it, appreciate "what it is".

But it's kinda like, unless you know, you totally don't know, and TBH I really don't hate that idea.

I swear-I really am, I guess, a top 2600 player, always did well in the HSC's here, many W/R's/Maxes elsewhere, but I totally remember thinking the bits and blobs, and same thing over and over was never gonna cut it, after games evolved, but I was definitely wrong.

My Activision shelf isn't the best in the World, but it's pretty damned good, I LOVE the company(the original one, 2600), but I totally remember thinking it was shit at one point, haha, it just depends on your perspective.

Also (for the latter), You're in a pretty good spot, with a little digging, to find someone who can repair your Atari or sell you another one...

really? How much do Jr's cost here?

If I were you,  I'd dig around in the MARKETPLACE,  (Buy, Sell, and Trade) part of the Forums.  For example, here's an AV/Mod Sears Heavy Sixer w/ BEST joysticks/Paddles ($200 shipped)  (And I trust Adam)...

I hate having short term memory.

could you give an example?

Whether you're writing and assembly program on a c64, Apple 2 or Atari 8-bit, you've got (basically) the same instructions: LDA, STA, ADC, etc.  The language is the same.  How you get something on screen or out of hte speaker is totally different though.  I haven't done assembly on any of those machines in so long I don't remember, so I had to look it up quick, but for example here is a reference of gfx-related memory map on c64: https://www.chibiakumas.com/6502/c64.php

If you store a values into $D020 you will change the background color.

On Atari 8-bit, graphics are handled by a different chip, different processes and different memory addresses: https://www.atariarchives.org/agagd/chapter1.php

The c64 has 8 sprites controlled by a set of memory locations specific to the VIC2 chip, the A8 has player/missile graphics (controlled by a different set of memory locations specific to the ANTIC chip), and the Apple 2 uses shape tables not sprites.

That's the idea - you still use the same 6502 assembly instructions on each machine, but the graphics and sound chips are all very different.

Same concept applies for any computer. Hope that helps! I'm no assembly programmer, I know enough to do simple things and debug, but I'm not the person to answer any detailed questions and I hope I didn't post anything blatantly incorrect above - I was trying to convey the idea more than details on how to program each machine.

When attempting to program a chip like a VIC-II or SID, it’s always best to take a look at their datasheets. They describe, well, how they are programmed. What all the registers are and what they do and how to use them. They might be difficult to understand at first, but it is key to figuring out how to use the chip to do things in a computer system. 

And yet they continue to grow and increase profits. Doesn't sound like a decline..?

their only good contributions were the Apple II, II plus IIc and IIe, and the mac. everything else is crap

I'd throw in the IIgs and PowerPC architecture.

don't you have a C64/Apple/TI game to go program?

I can go easier. Isn't Castle Wolfenstein a stealth game from ca. 1980 or 1981?

I think gaming died when tower defense and collect-a-thon games became a thing.  
 

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/02/random_no_nintendo_did_not_sue_a_9-year-old_child_for_creating_a_cardboard_game_boy  *chuckle*

Wait...did someone, like anywhere, not see that as farcical??  lol! 

i guess so! haha

this is the test version. You play as a bomber, trying to bomb the aliens from below. After 3 unsuccessful hits, you are given the option to nuke them. this resets your score to 0.

as of now, All i have is static images. 

any ideas?

aliens.TZX

I'm not sure what you are trying to do at the beginning of the program.

4 LET A$=INKEY$ will do an instant reading of the keyboard

5 IF INKEY$<>"" THEN GOTO 5 will wait until the key is released

6 IF A$="" THEN GOTO 6 will do a busy loop if no key was pressed

If you want to wait until a key is pressed, reorder the lines:

4 LET A$=INKEY$

5 IF A$="" THEN GOTO 4

6 IF INKEY$<>"" THEN GOTO 6

Further down the listing you're comparing the original value of A$ to 2 or 5, and then INPUT A$ which will replace the INKEY$ value, but since you immediately end the game after you have asked the user for input, it doesn't matter.

You're reasonably on your way but probably need to write down some pseudo code with game structure before turning it into real code.

ok

CGC on Sinclairzxworld. 4k would make for a nice challenge

@bluejay There was a 16KB RAM expansion you could add to it, it plugged into the back.

@thanatos Yeah, I mentioned it in my reply above, but what's the point of limiting yourself to 4k if you can have either 2k or 16k?

Hahaha. Good one Frozone. This made my day for sure. 

We foster cats and kittens for the local no kill animal shelter. We take care of them and socialize them. They get use to other animals. The shelter fixes and vacinates them. We get really busy during kitten season. 

thank you all for the responses