Tag: BASIC Games

Basic 10Liners 2017 Results – You won’t believe what can be done in only 10 lines!

April 27, 2017 2 Comments on Basic 10Liners 2017 Results – You won’t believe what can be done in only 10 lines!
Posted in Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple News, Sinclair News, TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo), ZX Spectrum

The 2017 10Liners contest is over. With 64 entries, this year contest is a staggering success. There are games for Atari, Commodore, MSX, Apple II and Amstrad and the quality of them is really impressive, considering how restrictive is a BASIC program in only 10 lines! But creativity wins! Here is the first 3 on each category: PUR-80 – Maximum of…

2016 BASIC '10-Liners' Contest is now on!

January 17, 2016 6 Comments on 2016 BASIC '10-Liners' Contest is now on!
Posted in Apple News, Atari News, Commodore News, News, Programming, Retro Computing History

What can you make using only 10 lines in a BASIC program? That is what this contest wants to see. The contest is open for all 8-bit computers using any line-based BASIC interpreter. There are few categories you can try to snag the first spot: Category “PUR-80”: Write a game in 10 lines (max. 80 characters per logical line, abbreviations are…

Unknown Plus/4 games see the light of the day

January 11, 2016 0 Comments on Unknown Plus/4 games see the light of the day
Posted in Commodore News, Commodore Plus/4, Homebrew Games News, News, Programming, Retro Computing History, Retro News, Scene News

Plus/4 World has made available several BASIC games that were never available online before. The website user 264er_Fan purchased a disk collection from eBay, which had some previously unknown games on it. Six of these come from Mark Lünnemann, a German programmer, who also wrote Pyramid Guy: Crack World, Dead of Night, Diamonds Man, Gallows Man, Sticknadel, Tunnel John. The…