Family Computing Magazine

[racer raul]

Back in the mid to late 80's I was the unfortunate owner of a Coco2 while my buddies had an 800xl & C64 to make fun of me.

We used to get Family Computing and looked forward to the game programs to see which computer was the best. I know... kids!

 

Anyways... I remember a program called "hit or miss" it was actaully a pretty cool game. It ran like crap on my coco.

 

Anyone know where I can find those programs? Or have the magazine with the game program to post?

[S1500]

I recently threw out a few vintage issues of Family Computing. It took me a long time to realize how truly awful and fluff the magazine was.

[telengard]

I recently threw out a few vintage issues of Family Computing. It took me a long time to realize how truly awful and fluff the magazine was.

 

Hehe, that was their charm right?

 

I was given a subscription as a kid and I loved them. The programs in the mag were quite silly but at that age I didn't care.

 

I have a full collection of them and have yet to find any disk images w/ programs on them or scans.

 

~telengard

[LoTonah]

I too liked Family Computing...at the time, I wasn't priviledged enough to own an Atari computer (I asked for an Atari computer, got an Atari 2600...asked again, got a Coleco Adam, 'cause that's what my cousins had).

 

Family Computing was one of the few magazines that dealt with the Adam. But I was also studying the other computers, knowing that SOMEDAY I would own something better.

 

Anyhow, I tried typing in Hit and Miss for you. There's a logic error somewhere, and now I'm too tired to figure it out. So here you go, a .TXT file and two JPG scans. Feel free to figure out where the problem is. BTW, Atari800MacX does syntax checking when bringing in a .LST file so I doubt it's an obvious error. (Rename the .TXT file as .LST and import as an executable in your emulator).

 

Have fun, hopefully it's not too much work for you.

 

-Don

HITMISS.TXT

[racer raul]

Man this place rocks...

Thanks a bunch, this'll keep me busy for a while

[+Guitarman]

Here is a working copy. I took the scans and ran them through OCR. Game is tested on Atari800Win and works great. A little late but if anyone wants the working BASIC file, here it is.

 

hitmiss.bas

[JamesD]

The only thing I remember about this magazine was that the CoCo versions of the games were for non-extended BASIC and minimal RAM. In other words... the CoCo version always stank.

[racer raul]

Thanks Guitarman... had to check back for the files after the new laptop.

 

And thanks for fixing it... been playing & it is actually not bad of a game. Would sure love to see this one turn up on the 2600 as a cart. Looks simple enough to get something like it done on the 2600... prob better looking on a 7800.