LUXOR .... 'fruit' machine with egyptian theme!

[TEXAS_JOE]

Was Work in Progress, now a complete game.

 

(for those lucky people with the real iron, you're gonna need Extended Basic and probably 32K for this one)

 

Start with $20, and try to win more!

 

Any key to spin the reels ... enjoy the game!

 

LUXOR2.zip

[GratedTopping]

I like the graphics and the spinning of the wheels. It's pretty tough to win; I still haven't after lots of tries, but it's nice. Good work! Thanks for the game.

[sometimes99er]

Excellent !

[TEXAS_JOE]

Thankyou Karsten and grated topping

 

The wins are pretty tough, yes. I decided to work the random reel stops roughly on a real fruit machine, which are tough too!

I've had more $2 and $5 wins lately and not many $10 wins at all.

Edited March 15, 2012 by TEXAS_JOE

[sometimes99er]

So each reel is like fixed with a certain number and chain/layout of fruits ? If so it could lead to some interesting calculations on probability/payout percentage.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_machine

[TEXAS_JOE]

Yes, each reel has a certain layout of symbols , I think usually the same amount of each symbol on each reel, and most definately a 'null' symbol too,

for example on the Bar-X machines we have the X, O, and usually a 7 .... the O is null, won't usually win anything if it comes up OOO but sometimes there are variations on this particular type of machine that pays out a small win with an OXO .... the 777 pays the highest but the probability of that happening is slim, due to this:

 

example; - X = 1 in 4 chance of reel stopping , O = 1 in 2 chance of reel stopping, 7 = 1 in 6 chance of reel stopping..... hence why 3 sevens are lucky indeed.

 

That's how I decided to do my game, with the Eye of Horus having a larger randomiser number (i think it was RND*10 to be honest), the King Tut has RND*8 and the Ankh has RND*6.

[apersson850]

Ha, when I saw the headline I thought you had come across another vintage computer, the ABC 80 from Luxor in Sweden.

[TEXAS_JOE]

Hehe ..... funnily enough, I did come across a google image of that very computer only about an hour or so ago

[+Ksarul]

Nice work!

[apersson850]

Hehe ..... funnily enough, I did come across a google image of that very computer only about an hour or so ago

Look here and you find plenty of images. We had them in college when I went there. Swedish competitor to Apple ][.

[TEXAS_JOE]

Wow .... in 1978 they cost $1400, that's asking a lot for a computer with the same CPU as a Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

 

I see they were used widely in Sweden however, for education and hobbyists .... nice little machine really.

[apersson850]

The CPU was the same (Z80), but the rest of the ABC 80 was in a completely different league, compared to the Spectrum. The ABC 80 was a computer built to perform in an office just as well as for a hobbyist.

It was a jonit venture between three companies. Dataindustrier AB made the design of the hardware, Metric AB wrote the software and Luxor AB handled the manufacturing.

The basic unit was sold with 16 kBytes of RAM and came with a specific cassette player, which could be controlled by the computer.

Then there were memory expansion and disk memory, like the dual DataDisk 80 unit, available. Only monochrome screen, though.