Today over on an APF Yahoo group a member named Jim Gerrie pointed out that his Radio Shack MC10 game, Penguino, is an entry in a programming contest called...
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Paul Thacker
lennier_of_t...
Apr 23, 2013 6:30 am
I just realized that Checkers is by John Collins, not John Perkins. I guess I was getting used to seeing John Perkins' programs sorting through Ken's tapes....
... I glanced through the video. It's certainly the longest video that I've seen about the Astrocade. It's a shame the Astrocade's video output is...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 9, 2013 7:56 pm
I had the honor to play an original Gorf over at someone's house this morning locally. He lives pretty-much right down the street from me. I never had met...
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Bill Loguidice
billlog
May 9, 2013 8:13 pm
I'm a huge fan of Gorf. I have most of the home versions ever made, even the quickly pulled Atari Jaguar CD homebrew. The first level is called "Astro...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 9, 2013 8:49 pm
... The first level is called "Astro Battles," isn't it? ... Yeah, you're right, Bill. However, there is a game called "Astro Invader" in the arcade-- so...
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Bill Loguidice
billlog
May 9, 2013 9:06 pm
Yeah, Astro Invader had some promise, but I always found the game lacking a bit in smoothness/overall playability. The Arcadia home version is indeed ...
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Russ Perry, Jr.
russperryjr...
May 9, 2013 10:01 pm
... Star -> Astro Wars -> Battles I believe it's really as simple as that. -- //*================================================================++ ... ...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 10, 2013 1:17 am
There is a large amount of old-new stock auctions on ebay now of very rare Astrocade items. One warning though: it certainly ain't cheap. But, at least when...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 16, 2013 3:21 pm
I ran across this August 2012 article, "Buying and Selling an Astrocade," by boxpressed from a link on AtariAge. It's well worth reading! ...
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Paul Thacker
lennier_of_t...
May 18, 2013 2:19 am
I got rather distracted by other programs that sounded more interesting (plus were easier to archive), but I played around some this evening with entering a...
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kenn lill
kenzre
May 18, 2013 3:32 am
One thing that you can do is the "DASM" command. It will disassemble the code verbatim. It does NOT know the on board commands, so those you will have to...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 18, 2013 4:29 pm
It seems that something is wrong to me, Paul. The process for entering data into the Utility is quite simple, and if you're able to enter data into the first...
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Paul Thacker
lennier_of_t...
May 20, 2013 4:50 am
OK, second try. Â I don't have the Blue RAM Utility on cartridge, but I loaded a tape version. I have several versions of this, but I used the one from Mike...
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kenn lill
kenzre
May 20, 2013 9:26 am
Blue Ram BASIC 1.1 uses the area !6C20 through !6FFF for all of it's variables including various stacks. Read the Blue Ram Extended memory allocation to see...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 20, 2013 5:09 pm
First, Ken isn't planning to put Blue Ram Utility 3 on his updated multicart, as the White Ram Utility program replaces it. If there is now any reason to put...
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kenn lill
kenzre
May 20, 2013 9:18 pm
Sorry about the misconception. ALL OF THEÂ Utilities DO start @ !6000. It goes to !6C1F and then starts up @!7000 and takes up almost all the way to !7FFF. It...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 20, 2013 11:20 pm
... ALL OF THE Utilities DO start @ !6000. ... How very strange that the tutorial places the hybrid and the example machine language program starting at...
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kenn lill
kenzre
May 21, 2013 3:32 am
ADAM, your program translates to LD HL,$4E6E LDÂ L,(HL) LDÂ H,$00 LD ($4E70),HL RET So the number in !4E6E is truncated to be no more than 255 (!FF) and then...
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Paul Thacker
lennier_of_t...
May 21, 2013 3:41 am
OK, third time's the charm? I figured if I was doing this in Bally BASIC, it would be easiest to type it out and convert it to a .wav file with the 300 baud...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 21, 2013 2:57 pm
... Are you sure I don't need to do some sort of byte swapping? I'm not sure how to get the data I entered back out. PRINT %(24576) gives me 28193, and PRINT...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 21, 2013 3:26 pm
... ADAM, your program translates to [...] ... Just to be clear. It's not my program. I just translated the hex value in the Arcadian to the Z80 opcodes. I...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 21, 2013 4:14 pm
... 3. Flip the two separate bytes. So $21 $6E becomes $6E $21. 4. Now convert the values to decimal and multiply by column value and then sum the columns....
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kenn lill
kenzre
May 21, 2013 8:10 pm
One thing to remember is that in the process of the BASIC's ALL zero out all of the variables and the screen ram. Extended BASIC's also clear out the entire...
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Paul Thacker
lennier_of_t...
May 21, 2013 8:39 pm
I'd assumed that the program was supposed to print something more interesting than 0, but good to know I'm getting the expected results. For testing purposes,...
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Adam Trionfo
atrionfo
May 21, 2013 9:03 pm
... I'd assumed that the program was supposed to print something more interesting than 0 ... What a terrible example program for two reasons. Setting B equal...
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kenn lill
kenzre
May 21, 2013 11:06 pm
... of byte swapping? I'm not sure how to get the data I entered back out. PRINT %(24576) gives me 28193, and PRINT %(24577) gives 20078. Â I also tried...
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Paul Thacker
lennier_of_t...
4:12 am
... In this example, I simply typed each address and value in decimal into a .txt file, such as: %(24576)=33 %(24577)=110 Then I converted this to 300 baud...
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kenn lill
kenzre
12:26 pm
just think, it took me a year of first learning code on my own and programming it in by small chunks into the Utility to get the word processor done. Whwn I...
