BASIC 10 Liner 2025: The seven Atari 8-bit games in competition | Download
The 14th edition of the BASIC 10 Liner contest once again showcases the ingenuity of programmers in pushing 8-bit systems to their limits with just ten lines of code. With 45 games submitted so far, seven have been developed for Atari 8-bit computers, standing out for their creativity and diverse range of genres.
Eric Carr enters the EXTREME-256 category with two games, leveraging the capabilities of FastBASIC 4.7. «The Lost Temple of Gold» is a puzzle adventure inspired by the classic PC DOS game Paganitzu. It features room designs adapted from the original, combined with new layouts, forming a compact yet challenging mini-adventure. Meanwhile, «FujiNet Battleship!» reinvents the classic Battleship game by enabling networked matches between two Atari computers connected via FujiNet, an innovative solution to the screen-sharing limitation in turn-based gameplay.
Chilean developer Víctor “Vitoco” Parada also presents two titles. «Pac-10Liner», in the PUR-120 category, is a minimalist take on Pac-Man, where players must evade Blinky while clearing a row of dots, with the chance to fight back after consuming a power pill. His other game, «Guess the Number», competing in the SHOW category, offers a deduction challenge: the player sets an upper limit and must guess the number the computer has selected within that range.
D. Scott Williamson contributes two games in the PUR-80 category, both programmed in Atari BASIC. «Wordle» brings the popular word-guessing challenge to Atari, giving players six attempts to identify a secret five-letter word, with visual feedback indicating how close their guesses are. Meanwhile, «2048» introduces the classic number-merging game to the Atari 8-bit, challenging players to slide tiles on a 4×4 grid and combine identical numbers to reach the highest possible score.
Finally, «Bomb Squad» by Noah Burney, also in EXTREME-256 and programmed in FastBASIC 4.7, tests players’ focus and precision. Following a bomb-defusal manual, they must cut the wires in the...
Eric Carr enters the EXTREME-256 category with two games, leveraging the capabilities of FastBASIC 4.7. «The Lost Temple of Gold» is a puzzle adventure inspired by the classic PC DOS game Paganitzu. It features room designs adapted from the original, combined with new layouts, forming a compact yet challenging mini-adventure. Meanwhile, «FujiNet Battleship!» reinvents the classic Battleship game by enabling networked matches between two Atari computers connected via FujiNet, an innovative solution to the screen-sharing limitation in turn-based gameplay.
Chilean developer Víctor “Vitoco” Parada also presents two titles. «Pac-10Liner», in the PUR-120 category, is a minimalist take on Pac-Man, where players must evade Blinky while clearing a row of dots, with the chance to fight back after consuming a power pill. His other game, «Guess the Number», competing in the SHOW category, offers a deduction challenge: the player sets an upper limit and must guess the number the computer has selected within that range.
D. Scott Williamson contributes two games in the PUR-80 category, both programmed in Atari BASIC. «Wordle» brings the popular word-guessing challenge to Atari, giving players six attempts to identify a secret five-letter word, with visual feedback indicating how close their guesses are. Meanwhile, «2048» introduces the classic number-merging game to the Atari 8-bit, challenging players to slide tiles on a 4×4 grid and combine identical numbers to reach the highest possible score.
Finally, «Bomb Squad» by Noah Burney, also in EXTREME-256 and programmed in FastBASIC 4.7, tests players’ focus and precision. Following a bomb-defusal manual, they must cut the wires in the...
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