«Gunner» and other new Atari games from BASIC 10Liners 2024 | Download
Four new games for the Atari 8-bits have joined the thirteenth edition of NOMAM's BASIC Ten-Liners 2024, the annual competition seeking the best game programmed with a maximum of ten lines of code in BASIC.
Eric "The Ecg Man" Carr inscribió a «Gunner» y «Magic Carpet Ride». The first, written in FastBASIC 4.6, is inspired by the classic «Beach Head» (US Gold, 1985): enemy planes approach! Your task is to fend off as many of them as you can for as long as possible.If a plane gets too close, it will shoot you, causing you to lose a gunship. Lose three ships, and it's game over. The program competes in the PUR-120 category (maximum 120 characters per logical line).
As for «Magic Carpet Ride», written in Atari BASIC, it is based on Disney's famous animated film "Aladdin". Use your joystick to dodge the arrows and press the joystick button at the end of the game to start again.
The program competes in the PUR-80 category (each line of code with a maximum of 80 characters). To run it, simply boot the ATR, and enter: RUN "D:MC.BAS"; or if you boot with Basic enabled, then type LOAD"D:MC.BAS"
The third title for Atari in the NOMAM's BASIC Ten-Liners 2024 is «Falling Balls» by Marco "spotlessmind1975" Spedaletti (Italy). In this simple arcade game, the player must drop balls into the baskets at the bottom of the screen, in the shortest possible path. The longer the ball travels across the screen, the fewer points he/she accumulates.
Once started, the ball will drop on its own, following the possibilities given by the obstacles. You cannot alter the movement of the ball once it has been dropped. «Falling Balls» is written in ugBASIC and competes in the EXTREME-256 category (maximum 256 characters per line).
Finally, in the same category competes «Jacks or Better Video Poker» written by D. Scott Williamson in Atari BASIC.It's a classic 5-card draw poker game. The player bets, the deck is shuffled, and 5 cards are dealt. The player then chooses which cards to keep and which to discard....
Eric "The Ecg Man" Carr inscribió a «Gunner» y «Magic Carpet Ride». The first, written in FastBASIC 4.6, is inspired by the classic «Beach Head» (US Gold, 1985): enemy planes approach! Your task is to fend off as many of them as you can for as long as possible.If a plane gets too close, it will shoot you, causing you to lose a gunship. Lose three ships, and it's game over. The program competes in the PUR-120 category (maximum 120 characters per logical line).
As for «Magic Carpet Ride», written in Atari BASIC, it is based on Disney's famous animated film "Aladdin". Use your joystick to dodge the arrows and press the joystick button at the end of the game to start again.
The program competes in the PUR-80 category (each line of code with a maximum of 80 characters). To run it, simply boot the ATR, and enter: RUN "D:MC.BAS"; or if you boot with Basic enabled, then type LOAD"D:MC.BAS"
The third title for Atari in the NOMAM's BASIC Ten-Liners 2024 is «Falling Balls» by Marco "spotlessmind1975" Spedaletti (Italy). In this simple arcade game, the player must drop balls into the baskets at the bottom of the screen, in the shortest possible path. The longer the ball travels across the screen, the fewer points he/she accumulates.
Once started, the ball will drop on its own, following the possibilities given by the obstacles. You cannot alter the movement of the ball once it has been dropped. «Falling Balls» is written in ugBASIC and competes in the EXTREME-256 category (maximum 256 characters per line).
Finally, in the same category competes «Jacks or Better Video Poker» written by D. Scott Williamson in Atari BASIC.It's a classic 5-card draw poker game. The player bets, the deck is shuffled, and 5 cards are dealt. The player then chooses which cards to keep and which to discard....
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