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Retrochallenge 2015/01: 4K Color Computer Programming Contest Entries
I have submitted a variety of programs to Allen Huffman's 4K Color Computer Programming Contest. These programs were originally designed to run on the Radio Shack MC-10 with 16K ram pack. I had to...
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Retrochallenge 2015/01: Night Blitz
Well I've made another (possibly final) entry to Allen Huffman's 4K TRS-80 Color Computer Challenge. This program is a game idea I have been toying with since I first posted about it back in February...
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I've made another 4K game for Allen Huffman's programming contest. It's called "Overtake" and it is a car racing game. I've also submitted a 10 Line version of it to the NOMAM BASIC programming contest...
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The Creature that Ate the 24th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST
The people of the Glenside Colour Computer Club decided to host an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the development of BASIC. The Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS) version of BASIC was the...
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Retrochallenge 2015/07--Some Semigraphics 6 Games from the Acorn Atom
In my ongoing search for 8-bit BASIC game ideas and bits of code, I began looking into the classic British computer, the Acorn Atom. This machine caught my attention because it uses the same graphics...
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Defense and Nostromo from the NEC PC6001: An Exercise in Forensic Retrocomputing
In my ongoing search for Basic game ideas I have found that trawling through the web for materials on machines sharing the Motorola MC6847 Video Graphics Display (VDG) chip to be useful. One...
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January 2016 Retrochallenge 1: Fruit Panic from NEC PC-6001
Well, this is my first post for the month long January Retrochallenge 2016. My goal is to document some recent programming projects of mine for the MC-10, specifically my efforts at final debugging and...
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January 2016 Retrochallenge 2: Road Race Ported to Coco and Dragon
Well I've got one more program ported from MC-10 to Coco and Dragon. Took a little longer than it might because I'm using a new computer, a broken-screened laptop from my eldest daughter salvaged by...
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January 2016 Retrochallenge 3: Square Force
I had thought that for this Retrochallenge I would stick to cleaning up some recent programming projects and porting those projects to Coco and Dragon. However I couldn't resist the temptation to make...
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January 2016 Retrochallenge 4: Square Force (Update)
I made a few minor changes to Square Force to try to squeeze a few more microseconds of speed out of the main loop. As always, it's an exercise in futility,as the game will obviously be too slow for...
View ArticleJanuary 2016 Retrochallenge 5: Mini Pacman Atari Challenge
There was a 5 line Basic mini game for the Atari 8-bit demoed on Youtube:The original was written by Robin Edwards in 1987 and published in Atari User in its September edition. I created an MC-10...
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January 2016 Retrochallenge 6: A Not so Masterful Port of "Grand Master" Chess
Grand Master Chess Version 0.9 is a program I found on a mouldy old 5 1/4 disk from my basement. I've been looking for Basic and C code that I worked on back in the 90s to put up on my new Github...
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January 2016 Retrochallenge 7: Ministry and Mini Pac-Man Revised
I ported the simple empire simulation game "Ministry" from C to Micro Color Basic back in mid November. Now I have made the few minor edits needed to make it work on Color Basic for the Colour Computer...
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January 2016 Retrochallenge 8: New 10-Liner Puzzle Game "Dash"
Puzzle-- StartPuzzle-- FinishedDave Maunder (Bushy555), a member of the Yahoo MC-10 group and an avid user of the VZ200/300 posted that there is an up-coming 10-Liner Basic game programming contest...
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January 2016 Retrochallenge 9: 10-Liner Puzzle Game "Dash" (Update)
Je me baise bien!My fellow MC-10er from the Yahoo group, Robert Sieg, showed me how to access 256 character long lines on the MC-10 instead of just being stuck with the standard 128. He used the MCX...
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January 2016 Retrochallenge 10: Definitive Dash? And New 10-Liner "MiniDung"
Robert has really been working hard on BDASH game. I really like the BDASH016 version that he has created. His animation of the little "miner" character is a really nice touch. And the sound and visual...
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The Joys of 10 Line BASIC Programming
A real MC-10 with the basic kitIt's been a while since I posted. I have been busy mostly with creating 10-liner games for the NOMAM competition. The competition results came in and was able to crack...
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Some Examples of Retro-programming Inspiration from Out of the Blue
Got a message one day from someone from Brazil. Érico had run across some of my videos and mentioned them to some of his mates on a forum for a modern variation of Basic known as GLBASIC. Here's what...
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Just Call me a Type-in Fanatic
I have been very active lately porting programs from various sources. Mostly I have been using the large number of PDFs available from various archives of classic 8-bit computer magazines you can find...
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Miniature Golf by Mitch Voth
Thanks to the help of Darren and jdiffendaffer on the MC-10 Yahoo group I was able to figure out the esoteric features of SG6 graphics mode to port a miniature golf game by Mitch Voth from the 16K...
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