Justin Payne Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 (edited) OK, I'll admit this is probably stupid but back in the day, before I took to the high seas and filled by disk box full of "treasures", I typed in a lot of games from magazines, which I'm sure a lot of you also did. One game that got a lot of gameplay was Goblin (COMPUTE! ISSUE 38 / JULY 1983 / PAGE 64). Unfortunately, there was a small bug that made it placed multiple "sad faces", which you collect, in places were they were impossible to collect w/o dying. Since the game only gives you one player, this kinda ruined the game. Although I could code in BASIC back then, I never, for some reason, fixed this bug....until today. I also changed the keys so they use A and D of the famous WASD and I modified the graphics a bit. On the cover of Compute, it shows you moving through a cemetery so I made the obstacles headstones and the goblins look more like ghosts than sad/happy faces. When you die, your head turns into a skull. These are all very minor things but it was a fun little project getting me to remember how to code in BASIC. Who knows. Maybe I'll make a Goblins 2 with better...everything. ? mygoblin.bas Edited September 21, 2020 by Justin Payne 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Either all of this Retro love is stupid or nothing of it Thanks for sharing! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Payne Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 I think the "stupid" part was more that I fixed a 37 year old typed-from-a-magazine game that no one is probably still playing but myself and I think I now had more fun fixing the issue than playing the game. ? 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilheim Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 I like this game! It was attached with a basic game pack when you bought a new Atari 800XL in my country -the green tape-. Back then, I even added a machine language routine to speed up the character redefinition. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Nothing stupid in fixing a game, basic or not its still a game for all of us to have a play with..Well done that man.!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Payne Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Wilheim said: I like this game! It was attached with a basic game pack when you bought a new Atari 800XL in my country -the green tape-. Back then, I even added a machine language routine to speed up the character redefinition. LOL! Yeah, that was pretty slow. I was thinking about doing something similar. Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voxel Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Very much appreciated! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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