sometimes99er Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 The "land movement" of Devastator just for a bit of reference - and the explosion. Is there more to this game ? Nope, that's all there is. I ported that to TI BASIC back in the day since I didn't have XB yet when it came out. Hehe, we were crazy back then, and I guess we still are to mess around with this ol' toy. I assume you "simply" had characters moving around instead of sprites. Guess you haven't got your TI Basic version laying around anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 (edited) The "land movement" of Devastator just for a bit of reference - and the explosion. Is there more to this game ? Nope, that's all there is. I ported that to TI BASIC back in the day since I didn't have XB yet when it came out. Hehe, we were crazy back then, and I guess we still are to mess around with this ol' toy. I assume you "simply" had characters moving around instead of sprites. Guess you haven't got your TI Basic version laying around anymore. Yeah.. it was slow and not very exciting, and I think there was a bug that sometimes left holes in the background, but it was worth it to see the color cycle animation. It's just time-based, you always eventually lose. It did inspire a Jaguar game I did a couple years ago for a contest though. Based on the 'Earth always blows up anyway' concept, in my game you were trying to destroy the Earth (also the base at the bottom of the screen was completely unnecessary ): TI BASIC version... a quick look says I don't have it any more. But the only difference would have been the ship and the sight moving by characters, and collision if they hit the same cell. Edited August 24, 2011 by Tursi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Very cool. Very much Devastator. I really expected Earth to "blow up". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Hehe, the only reason I didn't play harder to record a game I actually won in is that the game was never finished, and the "spectacular explosion" I wanted was never coded. It just says "'SPLODE. YOU WIN!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratedTopping Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 It just says "'SPLODE. YOU WIN!" Now, if it said 'YOU'RE WINNER!', that would have been awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 (edited) Those old guys certainly knew how to squeeze XB... I wonder if the Buck Rogers style of land movement could be done in XB by rotating the color sets? 800 REM EARTH DESTROYED 810 GOSUB 790 :: FOR I=8 TO 0 STEP -1 :: CALL HCHAR(7+I,25-I,95):: CALL COLOR(8,INT(RND*<img src='http://www.atariage.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='8)' />+9,1):: NEXT I 820 FOR J=1 TO 40 :: NEXT J Line 810 is corrupted... Any idea what the original content was? Edited December 12, 2013 by Vorticon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratedTopping Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 (edited) Line 810 is corrupted... Any idea what the original content was? 810 GOSUB 790 :: FOR I=8 TO 0 STEP -1 :: CALL HCHAR(7+I,25-I,95):: CALL COLOR(8,INT(RND*number eight)+9,1):: NEXT I > put "8" in place of "number eight"; having the digit there gave a smiley character Edited December 13, 2013 by GratedTopping Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 That smiley with sunglasses should be an '8' and close parenthesis, IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratedTopping Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 (edited) That smiley with sunglasses should be an '8' and close parenthesis, IIRC. Yeah, I was correcting it as soon as you posted this. I still don't know what character combos give different faces. Edited December 13, 2013 by GratedTopping 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 810 GOSUB 790 :: FOR I=8 TO 0 STEP -1 :: CALL HCHAR(7+I,25-I,95):: CALL COLOR(8,INT(RND*number eight)+9,1):: NEXT I > put "8" in place of "number eight"; having the digit there gave a smiley character Interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 That smiley with sunglasses should be an '8' and close parenthesis, IIRC. Yeah, that one has bitten me a few times! ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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