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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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The Six Lilies/Le Jeu de Six Lys by Infogrames (1984)
I have made another conversion of a game for the Matra Alice to the TRS-80 MC-10. This game is a computer role-playing game (CRPG). It uses some nice graphics that are made possible by the upgraded...
View Article"Softball" for BASIC 10-Liner Programming Competition (2025)
I decided to try to make another 10-Liner BASIC game for the next BASIC 10Liner Games Contest on Homputerium. It is loosely based on many computer simulation baseball games I've seen over the years,...
View Article"Des cavernes dans le poquette" by Charles Feydy (1982) Update
"Some caverns in the pocket" is how I would translate the title of the game and article by Charles Feydy published in 1982. A while back I made and English translation from French and port of this...
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"Stellar Odyssey" by Nick Marentes (1982)-- A Conversion Odyssey
I was watching The Coco Nation live stream stream show the other day, when somehow the conversation got on to Nick Marentes' first game "Stellar Odyssey" I was intrigued to hear that the game was...
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"Schatzoeken" or "Treasure Caves" by Unknown Author (198?)
Original Map PlaythroughI ran across a little BASIC CRPG on Jason Dyer's Renga in Blue blog. It was called "Schatzoeken" and was written in Dutch. Jason mentioned it because he was discussing a text...
View Article"Treasure House" AKA "Chateau of Gold" by C.J. Davison (1982)
I've been working on a port of a game called "Chateau of Gold" for the Dragon 32 computer by GEM Software to the TRS-80 MC-10 using Micro Color BASIC. The remarks at the top of the GEM code suggest...
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"Computer Dominoes" by David Smith (1982)
I've typed in another game with an AI opponent and modified it to work on the TRS-80 Micro Color Computer ("MC-10") using Micro Color BASIC. It's from source code in Your Computer Magazine, February...
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"Bally's Alley" by John Collins (1980)
Jason Dyer made a post about an interesting little text adventure for the Bally Astrocade system. He was able to get a version of the game running from source code typed-in by Paul Thacker in November...
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"Drakulas Diamanten" by C. Seibt (1983)
Full Walkthrough"Dracula's Diamonds" was originally published in German as a type-in for ZX-81 in the October 1983 issue of Homecomputer magazine, pp.30-35. I found out about it from Strident over on...
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"Survival" by Stewart F. Rush (1981)
I've created a new MC-10 version of "Survival" aka "Moon Survival Adventure" from David Ahl's 1984 book "Big BASIC Games". I only made minimal changes to get the source code to work properly. Renga in...
View Article"TPUG Sample Adventure" by Steven C. Darnold (1985)
This is a text adventure modified to work on the TRS-80 Micro Color Computer ("MC-10") using Micro Color BASIC from the author's published source code in TPUG Magazine June/July 1985 pp. 8-12. The game...
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