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Retrochallenge Winter Warmup Project
Well here are my plans for a Retochallenge Winter Warmup project and my New Year's resolution. I'm going to finish up the following Basic programming projects I've been working on for the TRS-80 MC-10...
View ArticleSome Projects (*New +Ports) I'm Porting to Coco and Dragon for Retrochallenge...
* = New Game + = Port to MC-10 from another computer's version of BASIC. I've got all these programs working for the MC-10. My retro-challenge is to make the changes needed to make them all work for...
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The Treasure of Elgon Adventure By Keith Hawthorn (Walkthrough)
Walkthrough for the TRS-80 MC-10 and COCO and Dragon 32/64 Versionby Jim Gerrie(Other's might be different)WARNING: This Adventure may contain a Grue!NGET LADDERSDROP LADDERCLIMB LADDERJUMPNGO...
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The Pharaoh's Tomb
Last year I worked on a game called "Penguino" for the Retrospectiva 2012 Basic programming competition. That game used a basic 4 X 4 character matrix for each of the "sprite" characters in the game....
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"The High Mountains" Port from VZ-200 to MC-10, Coco and Dragon
The images to the right show screen shots from a unique game made for the ZX Spectrum by Paul Braithwaite. The game is called "The High Mountains." It was based on John Christopher's Tripods trilogy....
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Homage to the Commodore Pet: Ouranos aka Weather War
Another source of good Basic programming ideas is the Commodore Pet. One of the games I came across while researching the programs available for that classic 8-bit computer was "Ouranos" by Kathy...
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Flipull: An "Exciting Cube Game by Taito" (フリップル Furippuru)
I put out a post on the Yahoo group for the MC-10 asking for game suggestion ideas. Neil Morrison made the helpful suggestion of adding a level editor to my MC-10 version of Sokoban. I might do that...
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Uncle Tays' House Adventure Walkthrough (Spoiler Alert)
MAIN FLOOR?DEN“move couch with brace”,“take teddybear”KITCHEN/STAIRS TO BASEMENT“move fridge with jack”, “take fuse”GARAGE“take jack”, “take bungee”HALLHALLFOYER“take newspaper”,“read newspaper”SITTING...
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Escape from the Secret Science and Detention Base
Escape from SSADB, originally "Escape from the Soviet Science and Detention Base", is a text adventure in the tradition of great Basic adventures like those made by Scott Adams. It was apparently...
View ArticleThe Cavern of the Morlocks: Beware the Carrrots Hommeaux!
This text adventure in the 8-bit Basic program category is unique in several ways. First, its design permits multiple narrative pathways to the completion of the adventure (despite the limits imposed...
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The Demon’s Eye: Walkthrough Map
I ported this adventure from Coco basic. It was a type-in program from one of the Color Computer magazines. I don't recall it being very difficult to port. Probably just had to get rid of some of...
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Citadelle: The Shield of Oran
In the first installment of Loriciels' Citadelle series, which I ported from source code ported to the Sanyo PHC-25 you will come up against a range of monsters. There are Lich’s, Bugbears, Orcs,...
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Tim Hartnell's "Chateau Gaillard"
I found the source code for this on an Atari site that has archived a whole bunch of published materials for early 8-bit computers. There seems to be something about the Atari crowd that inclines them...
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Summer Retrochallenge 1: "Temple of Apshai" for the MC-10
Richard V. from the Netherlands suggested on the Yahoo MC10 group that the classic 8-Bit Basic game "The Temple of Apshai" might be a good prospect for porting to the MC-10. He posted some of the...
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Summer Retrochallenge 2: "Big Red" A Micro Color Basic 3D Monster Maze
I have always been fascinated by the ZX-81 computer because it was the template upon which the MC-10 was based. The MC-10 was obviously meant to appeal to the same kind of extreme low budget home...
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Summer Retrochallenge 3: Techniques for "Shoehorning" Classic IF into the MC-10
One of the things I’ve enjoyed doing with the MC-10 is converting a bunch of classic interactive fiction (IF) games to run on it. I’ve described elsewhere the speedy 4 line word wrap routine I...
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Converting from MC-10 to Coco and Dragon
=====>Part of the difficulty I have in porting programs from the MC-10 to Coco and Dragon is that Coco and Dragon Basic needs spaces in certain places that the slightly later rendition of Microsoft...
View ArticleSpace Trek by Jake Commander
Here are a few comments about the code I modified for the MC-10 (on Github) of Jake Commander's "SPACE TREK" originally published in Color Computer Magazine (May 1983). Each comment refers to the code...
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Retrochallenge 2015/01: Will Crowther's "Adventure" Ported to 8-Bit Basic
For Retrochallenge 2015 I have ported Will Crowther's original Colossal Cave "Adventure" to Microsoft Micro Color Basic. The new basic source code should be easily shifted to other Basics. I have fixed...
View ArticleRetrochallenge 2015/01: Rail--Switch the Railroad
"Rail" is a Basic simulation/game program based on a Commodore PET program by Chris Torkildson originally published in Issue 19 of Cursor Magazine. Here are YouTube videos of the original program and...
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