In my ongoing adventures in porting Eamon Adventures I stumbled on some truely ugly BASIC code:
110 HD = FN A(8):AG = FN A(8):CH = FN A(8) 120 PRINT " HARDINESS--";HD: PRINT " AGILITY --";AG: PRINT " CHARISMA --";CH;"'": PRINT…
Category Archives: Retro Computing
Porting Eamon Adventures – First challenges, characters.
In unraveling the code for Eamon the first thing I looked at was the startup procedure which did character selection. There is a bunch of text to give a great flavor which I have so far skipped over, as it …
Porting Eamon Adventures to .Net
In my youth I had some spare money to spend and a public domain software catalog for the Apple II and so I bought a few software titles. Among those titles was the Eamon Adventures Master and a handful of …
Blackjack
Blackjack was my attempt at “real” graphics on the TI-82.
BLACKJAC:
\START82\
\COMMENT=Program file dated 01/20/80, 00:00
\NAME=BLACKJAC
\FILE=BLACKJAC.82P
ClrHome
Disp “+————-+”
Disp “! YOU ARE !”
Disp “! PLAYING !”
Disp “! VIDEO 21 !”
Disp “! VERSION …
Slots
I really enjoyed this slot machine implementation because to me it seemed like the scrolling text looked like slot machine wheels spinning. Text of program below and 82p files attached.
Slots:
\START82\
\COMMENT=Program file dated 01/20/80, 00:00
\NAME=ASLOTS
\FILE=ASLOTS.82P…
Basketball
In high school a friend of mine wrote a fun random chance based basketball game. We played a lot of this back in the day. Here is the ascii listings of the programs and attached will be a *.82p file …
Rescuing TI-82 software I wrote in my youth.
I recently grabbed a 486 computer from my parents house and in the process of finding my old dos/windows software to install on the machine I found a backup file for a TI-82 software and wondered if it contained anything …
Power switch for CoCo 3
Last year I purchased a CoCo 3 and accessories and thrown in with the package were two other CoCo 3’s that were “not working”. One of them had a poorly seated GIME chip and the other had a really crusty …
Cyclone and the ESP8266
Today I started trying to figure out WIFI on the Cyclone CoCo. I am using the newly updated version of Cyclone that supports FAT32 formatted SD cards. The first step is to extract the below two files to the root …
Archive.org collection downloader
Archive.org is an amazing resource but it can be tedious to download collections of items from the archive. I wrote this utility when I wanted to download the 4am Apple II software collection and had tired of clicking each of …