Category: Tutorial

PunyInform Coding 3: Daemons and Describing Objects

PunyInform

In this tutorial we use daemons to implement a microwave oven that can heat food and a plate of spaghetti that cools off over time. We also explore techniques to describe objects.

PunyInform Coding 2: Objects and Actions

PunyInform

PunyInform is a tool for writing text adventures for 8-bit computers and newer computers alike. If you have already installed PunyInform and gone through the PunyInform Coding 1 tutorial, the time has come to learn more about objects and actions. This tutorial goes through the different parts of a simple game where there are two puzzles to be solved, you can score…

Going into Action! with Atari XL/XE – Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program

Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program Except for early dialects of BASIC found in the 8-bit computers, the programmer can split an application source code into multiple…

Going into Action! with Atari XL/XE – Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting

Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program I am a bit late in this 4th part of the Going into Action! series, where I write about Action! while…