Mike P Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 I discovered batari during my Holiday break and decided to write a game with it that I orginally wrote many years ago on my old TRS-80 model 1 (guess I was a little bored). I call it Bomber. You drop bombs on factories below. The altitude and direction of your bomber is controlled by the pilot (random), your job is to drop the bombs with the left controller fire button. You must level all factories before missing three times. Game reset restarts the game. Most of my programming time was spent squeezing into a 2K cart. I cannalibized an old cartridge and burned the game into a 2716 EPROM. I was in for a few surprises when I ran it for the first time on my 2600 console. It turns out that Stella's display was quite a bit more forgiving so I had to make some timing changes. It seems to play pretty smooth now but let me know what you think. Mike P. bomber.bas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Thanks. Can you post a bin file too for those who don't use bB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike P Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 Sorry about that, here is the bin file. Mike P bomber.bas.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Cool. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaGtGruff Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Interesting! I actually started knocking around with a somewhat-similar game over the holidays, a bB conversion of the old "Blitz" game. I was inspired to do so by a version of "Blitz" that I saw someone else working on for the 2600, and I wanted to see what could be done using bB. However, I stopped working on "bB Blitz" (as I was calling it) out of deference to the other programmer. My version was also partly influenced by "Blitz World Tour," a Flash game that I found and played on the internet. In "Blitz World Tour," there are bonus rounds where you have to bomb famous landmarks (e.g., the Statue of Liberty and the Taj Mahal). In "bB Blitz," I planned to have bonus rounds where you have to bomb Atari-related landmarks, like the "Fuji Towers" and the Yellow Castle. Michael Rideout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uosipa llamxew Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 I like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmips Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 nice. It's very simple and fun, and best of all... a reward for winning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Hi really a nice little game.Maybe you could do more levels? greetings Gambler172 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdub_bobby Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Nice indeed. More levels? Add more realistic gravity? I.e., increasing downward velocity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 It plays interestingly. However, how come I only get one shot at a time to knock out buildings with? Actually, more like two missle shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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