Missile question

[Missile question]

I'll try to be more specific, apparently that helped with the last question. I want a sprite (player0) to fire a missile downwards once the fire button is pressed. I don't know how I can be more specific than that.

[Missile Command lowercase end label]

If you wish to know about label variations, feel free to hit the giant list of label variations at the bottom of my signature. Also, there are some items missing, but I'm working on the list, so you'll get to see hundreds of variations on this list, and may not see a few you know to exist. I'm getting there. Al hasn't been too up to date with his postings. If you want more details of scans, visit Rom Hunters site, www.atarimania.com.

 

Phil

Why is the only company listed under label variations Activision?

[Timer question]

Never mind. I figured it out.

[0.to]

Here's the code. Beware, it's really long, though.

You typed "goto to" on line 1290, that's your error.

Silly me.

[Missile Command lowercase end label]

Well, I didn't know. Point taken.

[Timer question]

I checked. That wasn't it.

[Missile Command lowercase end label]

How come this isn't in the AtariAge database and the uppercase one is?

[Joust yellow logo]

Was surfing the Atari Age rarity guide when I came across Joust silver label with an orange logo. Mine has a yellow logo. What's up with that?

[0.to]

Here's the code. Beware, it's really long, though.

zyxdeluxe1.bas

[What systems are most plentiful in your collection?]

How rich are you people?

[Timer question]

What is wrong with this program:

1 rem Ants!
2 set smartbranching on
3 rem l = lives counter
4 rem t = timer counter

220 x=60 : y=60 : score=0 : scorecolor = 62 : l=4
221 a = rand : t=0 
222 if a>150 || a<20 then 221 
223 b = rand
224 if b>80 || b<10 then 223
225 if l=0 then goto 359
230 COLUP0 = 198 : COLUBK = 246 : COLUP1 = 0
240 player0x=x : player0y=y : player1x= a : player1y = b
260 player0:
 %01100110
 %00100100
 %00111100
 %11111111
 %00111100
 %00111100
 %00100100
 %01000010
end
270 player1:
 %10111101
 %01111110
 %00011000
 %10111101
 %01111110
 %00011000
 %10111101
 %01111110
end
280 drawscreen
281 t=t+1
282 if t=255 then l=l-1 : goto 221
290 if joy0up then y=y-1
 if y<10 then y=10
 if y>80 then y=80
300 if joy0down then y=y+1
 if y<10 then y=10
 if y>80 then y=80
310 if joy0left then x=x-1
 if x<20 then x=20
 if x>150 then x=150
320 if joy0right then x=x+1
 if x<20 then x=20
 if x>150 then x=150
330 if collision(player0,player1) score=score+1 : goto 221
340 goto 230

359 rem death
360 COLUBK = 0
380 if switchreset then goto 1
385 goto 360

When I compile this, it gives me a bunch of errors, many of them saying "(1121): Syntax Error ". ']' error, no arg on stack

[Timer question]

Actually, 4.25 seconds is just about the time I need. I'll try that & see what happens.

[What systems are most plentiful in your collection?]

I have one working N64 and one broken N64. I have 1 original Game Boy and one broken Game Boy. Call me Mr. Packrat.

[how many doubles of one game do yo have in your collection?]

I have exactly 50 non-dupes in my collection, and 2 duplicates (3, but I can't get the Space Invaders chip to work.) I'll sometimes buy a dupe on purpose so in case I get a cartridge for one that doesn't work, I can put it in the dupe's cart.

[Timer question]

I'll try to be as specific as I can with this next question.

How do you activate a timer or time counter thingee?

In this game I'm working on, I want a sprite (player1) to pop up on the screen for a certain amount of time and then disappear. While it's on the screen, I want player0 to touch it. So how do I make the sprite stay on the screen for a certain amount of time using a timer-like thing?

[Coleco, Nintendo & Atari]

I have a question. Why did Coleco publish Donkey Kong while Atari published Mario Bros.? Why not just have either company do both games? And why didn't Nintendo make any 2600 games? It was way before the Famicom came out.

[0.to]

What the heck is 0.to as a warning and how do I make it quit?

[Title Screen for a game]

I figured it out. I put an extra drawscreen command at 90 and moved the next 2 lines down:

 

90 drawscreen

91 player0x=x : player0y = y : player1x = a : player1y = b

92 COLUBK = 142 : COLUP0 = 182 : COLUP1 = 112 : COLUPF = 212

 

Better having Bubba flicker than the whole screen! Anyone wanna make a game using this title screen? You have about 2k left.

[Title Screen for a game]

Anyone wanna go halfsies on this? I made a title screen for a game called "Bubba." The only problems are 1 - the title screen flickers and 2 - I have no idea what Bubba (the green guy) should be doing. If anyone accepts to finish this thing, credits would go like this:

concept - you / design - me / title screen programming - me & you / Of course, if you don't want to finish this game, at least just get the flickering to stop.

bubba.bin

bubba.bas

[One Game Only]

I'd probably choose Video Pinball. Either that or Pole Position.

[One Game Only]

Hacked version of River Raid that allowed you to go through all the screens. Probably never make it to 1,000,000 in my lifetime anyway, but if there was nothing else to do, might as well try...

 

~G

It takes 11 days to *count* to a million. Now imagine the time it'd take to get what you want to do.

[Atari 2600 Availaibility Question]

I try to avoid e-bay as much as possible. I hate it so much. I occassionally go on there to check it even though I wouldn't buy anything on it, and common games usually run about $4-7?! Man!

[Missile question]

How do I make a sprite fire a missile when the fire button is pressed? I know what to do about collisions, but I just want to know how to make missiles get fired from sprites.

[Mr. Hooper plays Pac Man]

That's nothing. Mr. Burns played Pac-Man in an episode of The Simpsons.

[Possible new feature]

How about a lives counter? Like the score counter? Lots of games have lives to keep track of, and you don't even have to use the score counter if you don't want to, so you don't need to use the lives counter.