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David Meny's "Pirate Island" (1985)
I was contacted by David Meny about whether there was a place to play his old BASIC text adventure games online (Escape from S.S.A.D.B. and Pirate Island). I had already converted his SSADB (which he...
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"Mosquito" by Mr. Slump (1985)
I ported a game to the TRS-80 MC-10 from for the NEC PC-6001. It was originally published in MICOM BASIC magazine 1985-01 (see above). This new version uses the SG6 graphic mode of the MC-10 rather...
View ArticleClassic Rally-X Arcade Game Written in BASIC
I've been working on my attempt at a "re-programming" of Rally-X in BASIC for a while. But I've never quite been able to feel satisfied with it until today. Darren Atkinson's machine language...
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Usborne Books "Dungeon of Doom" (1984)
By Les Howarth, Cheryl Evans and Chris Oxlade, this game was the example program at the heart of the Write your Own Fantasy Games book. It's a fairly straightforward RPG, but unlike many others of the...
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"Dr. Who Adventure" by James Smith (1982)
I ported this text adventure quite some time ago, but my techniques for squeezing games into the 20K space of the MC-10 have improved a lot since then. I now don't have to use the two-file...
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"Astronave Farmer" by Mario Pettenghi (1985)
"Astronave Farmer" or "Spaceship Farmer" in English is a text adventure game I've ported to Micro Color BASIC originally programmed for the Laser 500. I also translated it from Italian. This seems to...
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The Day Type-in Mania Died: Joseph Roehrig's Scrabble (1981)
I recently worked on typing in a program from BYTE Magazine. It was for a Scrabble game "simulation"/AI opponent. From the article accompanying the program you could tell that the author Joseph...
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Programs for 2023 10Liner BASIC Contest
I have created three programs for the BASIC 10-Liner contest using Micro Color BASIC for the TRS-80 Micro Color Computer aka the MC-10.SMASHUP (for PUR-120)This program is a simple simulation of a...
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"Gin Rummy" by S. Silverman (1980)
This one is a bit of a mystery. I went looking for some early source of a Gin Rummy game. I wanted to add this popular card game to my list of early BASIC AI opponent programming attempts. I first...
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"Doctor Who Adventure" Jeremy Guggenhiem (1893)
In a 2000 post, Jeremy Raynor claimed that this is the first ever Doctor Who computer game. It took the form of 3 pages of listings in the March 1983 edition of the British magazine Computer and Video...
View Article"Mission Adventure" by Michel Brassinne (1984)
The author of the Retroprogammez blog made a nice post about this game. It is an example program from a fairly regular contributor to the French computer magazine Jeux & Stratégie. Garry over on...
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"Cribbage" in Microsoft BASIC by Sheppard Yarrow (1979)
I was working on trying to port to Micro Color BASIC "Cribbage" in Microsoft BASIC. The program was ported to MS BASIC by Steven Williams from Sheppard Yarrow's original source from Creative Computing...
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"Space Mouse" by Takanari Suzuki (1981)
According to the Giant Bomb game website "Space Mouse" was created in 1984 as a "type-in" program in the Japanese computer magazine I/O. The following blurb from Giant Bomb regards a modern 2016...
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"Fox and Geese" by Input Magazine (1984)
I came across a very interesting article in "Input Magazine" with a simple AI BASIC program. "Input" was an early 1980s computer publication by Marshall Cavendish. It was dedicated to teaching the...
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"Third World War" by Free Game Blot (1985)
This is a conversion of a BASIC game for the Matra Alice to its cousin system, the TRS-80 MC-10. The game is called "World War 3" in its docs, but "Third World War" on the game title screen. The...
View ArticleStar Trek III by Lance Micklus (1978)
I've been working on a port of Lance Micklus' Star Trek III game to Micro Color BASIC from TRS-80 Model I/III BASIC, which I did some time back. I had been unsatisfied from the start with the flat...
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"Lines of Action" by Sol Guber (1985)
The game "Lines of Action" was invented by Canadian born Claude Soucie. He moved to the United States during the Depression as a young child, and learned to amuse himself, and eventually others, by...
View Article"O-Jello" by Clyde Perkins (1980)
This is a conversion to Micro Color BASIC of a game by Clyde Perkins for the Bally Arcade/Astrocade game console and early 8-bit home computer. The first "Bally BASIC" version appeared in the Arcadian...
View Article"Football Manager" By Kevin Toms (1982)
Since I mention a minor (apparent) bug that I think I found in my last post, I should also mention another minor bug that I think I found in another classic BASIC program. I recently did an port of...
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The High Mountains by Paul Braithwaite (1984)
This is a unique multi-player text adventure game loosely based on John Christopher's Tripods trilogy. It allows players to take the roles of the human resistance or the alien masters and their...
View Article"Dungeon" by Brian Sawyer (1979)
This is a port of the classic PET "Rogue-like" game (before Rogue) "Dungeon" to the TRS-80 MC-10. I found an unfinished part in it that would have allowed the player to have a double distance "fog of...
View Article"Haunted House" by Tandy (1979): A Narrative Update
This is a classic text adventure first sold for the TRS-80 Model 1 in 1979 by Tandy. It is a little unclear who the actual author was, but the game was originally a machine language game in two parts,...
View Article"Minidam" by Christian Garaud (1985)
This program is a "solitaire" logic puzzle game. The goal is to transpose the red pegs and blue to finish with the red pegs on the right and the blue pegs on the left. A peg can only move diagonally in...
View Article"Adventure" by Let's Compute Magazine (March 1991)
I've typed-in a demo text adventure from a UK computer magazine called "Let's Compute." The CPC computer wiki describes the history of this publication as follows:Let's Compute! was a monthly British...
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"Castle Adventure" by Dave Trapasso (1981)
This is a type-in text adventure from Computronics magazine, April 1982, which I don't think exists as a playable game anywhere on the Net. It was originally for the TRS-80 Model 1/3, but my version is...
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