Games written in ACTION!

[cas]

Hi,

 

out of curiosity, do you know any published games (commercial or otherwise) written in ACTION! ?

 

-- carsten

[olavese@online.no]

Hi,

 

out of curiosity, do you know any published games (commercial or otherwise) written in ACTION! ?

 

-- carsten

 

Isn't Bill Kendricks games written in Action! Gem Drop and those ... Also have a disk with Action! games at : http://pokeysoft.no/games/atari/a8arc.htm

 

Search for Action games ... Also search for balloonier ... Have source code too

[a8isa1]

Hi,

 

out of curiosity, do you know any published games (commercial or otherwise) written in ACTION! ?

 

-- carsten

Advanced search at Atarimania reveals a few Action! games.

 

- Steve Sheppard

[Sikor]

Tomcat written by TDC, sources are available at Grzybsoniada 2010 stuff atr. Most of games written by Jakub Husak.

[Thorsten Günther]

out of curiosity, do you know any published games (commercial or otherwise) written in ACTION! ?

 

Peter Finzel's games AFAIK were written in that language, at least he IIRC said so in the description to the eBay auction where he sold his 800 and the sources to these games.

 

Dave Oblad's "Labyrinth"

 

Thorsten

[Evidious]

I heard that star fleet was written in action

[cas]

out of curiosity, do you know any published games (commercial or otherwise) written in ACTION! ?

 

Peter Finzel's games AFAIK were written in that language, at least he IIRC said so in the description to the eBay auction where he sold his 800 and the sources to these games.

 

 

Hello Thorsten,

 

according to someone supposedly having won that eBay auction and owning the sources now, the games are not in ACTION! My guess thay are in Assembly language (ATMAS II).

 

-- Carsten

[Mecki]

i think all of Maik Heinzig Atari games (Monster Hunt, Laser Robot, Plots, Galaxi Barkonid ....) are in Action. Robert

[tebe]

R.O.T.O.

https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Roto

[thorfdbg]

Hi,

 

out of curiosity, do you know any published games (commercial or otherwise) written in ACTION! ?

 

-- carsten

Kennedy Approach is, to my knowledge, also written in Action!. The speech synthesis is, of course, not. But that is third-party code.

[Bill Loguidice]

Kennedy Approach is, to my knowledge, also written in Action!. The speech synthesis is, of course, not. But that is third-party code.

 

The C-64 version was the original, so wouldn't it be unusual for the Atari 8-bit port to be written in that type of computer-specific language?

[DanBoris]

R.O.T.O.

https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Roto

 

I forgot about R.O.T.O, that was a cool game.

[fujidude]

 

The C-64 version was the original, so wouldn't it be unusual for the Atari 8-bit port to be written in that type of computer-specific language?

 

It would, unless the C64 version was also written in Action! I have heard that there had been at least some C64 software written using Action! Action! compiles to straight 6502 machine code, so if one were to write their own custom routines that are tailored to the specifics of the C64 hardware architecture, it should work just fine.

[atx4us]

Not as many as it should be considering the capabilities of the language

 

Here's my chance to toss another coin in the bucket. ACTris! is written in Action! by me.

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/253464-actris-12-released/?do=findComment&comment=3525705

 

I also released the source codes for an earlier CTetris version here at AtariAge a long while ago.

[Bill Loguidice]

 

It would, unless the C64 version was also written in Action! I have heard that there had been at least some C64 software written using Action! Action! compiles to straight 6502 machine code, so if one were to write their own custom routines that are tailored to the specifics of the C64 hardware architecture, it should work just fine.

 

That would be a reasonable theory, but then I would assume the C-64 author would have just handled the Atari port himself in that case, which he didn't.

[DanBoris]

Does anyone know what the licensing terms were for the Action runtime? Did you just have to buy the runtime once, or did it have to be licensed for each copy of an Action language program you sold?

[+slx]

I think there was a more expensive commercial version of the runtime package that allowed for unlimited commercial distribution (without a per-game royalty).

[GoodByteXL]

I think there was a more expensive commercial version of the runtime package

 

Exactly, as mentioned in the manual with it.