12-22-2022, 01:35 AM
I read a book which was a half-opinionated story of the history of Atari up to and including the creation of their awesomesauce 2600 machine. It seems a lot of energy was needed just to create that "Pong" game which wasn't a big deal.
I have to dig deep into my archives but I created four different programs of silly pong games in text mode in QuickBASIC. Then in QB64 I cobbled them up into one program with a menu to choose one of the games to play. One of the variations has the ball "explode" after it hits the target, and the fragments could also hit targets for additional points. It wasn't very interesting, I was very bored the day I created it.
In addition I was motivated by that famous book of games by David Heiserman I think was his name, for IBM PC. I believe there was an edition for TRS-80 computers but not necessarily for the Color Computer. One called "Arrow Shoot" which was very funny. I created a fancy version in Freebasic with four levels. It would be easy to convert it to QB64.
"A large tree fell on your head, and you're dead! Dead, dead, dead! You took 1 step. You collected zero treasures."
Nobody wanted to play an "adventure" game in which that was always the message!
Also the "Hacker's Aid" was one of my favorite programs. Not so good: the "translators". There's one that teaches somebody to talk like Bugs Bunny LOL.
Under 50 bucks! 50 bucks? The fun is back, oh yes sirree! It's the twenty-six hundred from Ah-tah-ree!
I have to dig deep into my archives but I created four different programs of silly pong games in text mode in QuickBASIC. Then in QB64 I cobbled them up into one program with a menu to choose one of the games to play. One of the variations has the ball "explode" after it hits the target, and the fragments could also hit targets for additional points. It wasn't very interesting, I was very bored the day I created it.
In addition I was motivated by that famous book of games by David Heiserman I think was his name, for IBM PC. I believe there was an edition for TRS-80 computers but not necessarily for the Color Computer. One called "Arrow Shoot" which was very funny. I created a fancy version in Freebasic with four levels. It would be easy to convert it to QB64.
"A large tree fell on your head, and you're dead! Dead, dead, dead! You took 1 step. You collected zero treasures."
Nobody wanted to play an "adventure" game in which that was always the message!
Also the "Hacker's Aid" was one of my favorite programs. Not so good: the "translators". There's one that teaches somebody to talk like Bugs Bunny LOL.
Under 50 bucks! 50 bucks? The fun is back, oh yes sirree! It's the twenty-six hundred from Ah-tah-ree!