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Locomotive BASIC - Alpine-Road Race by A. & P. Marson

Started by ComSoft6128, 17:37, 15 June 21

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Type-in from the February 1986 issue of "Your Computer" magazine.
Program is Listed at end of video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe1wBr7-jEg

With thanks to @AMSDOS

Links:

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=6177

https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/alpine_road-race.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Computer_(British_magazine)

https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Your_Computer


Not emulated - original hardware and software.

Please note that  the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.


SpDizzy

Really good one!
Great and simple ink effect from grass / water / night (tunnel).What a pitty the lack of curves, some kind of straight line, highway to hell :)

eto

Quote from: SpDizzy on 11:03, 16 June 21
Really good one!
Great and simple ink effect from grass / water / night (tunnel).What a pitty the lack of curves, some kind of straight line, highway to hell :)

Yeah, first thing I thought was "I never saw such a straight alpine road".


As a game quite boring but for a type-in really good as it shows some nice tricks for Basic programming and probably not very much boring DATA stuff as the machine code part seems to be limited to the sprite drawing routine only. I love how he's doing a lot about the atmosphere with pure color changes. The road is not moving at all, just pure color changes.

ComSoft6128

Thanks for the replies, my only experience in BASIC was (with help!) creating a few slideshows 30 years ago so I find this interesting :)

asertus




Maybe you can add something from 8BP and improve it a little...

ComSoft6128

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Quote from: asertus on 20:02, 16 June 21


Maybe you can add something from 8BP and improve it a little...


Nope, I leave programming to people that know what they are doing :)


However 8BP might provide something to record, thanks for the info.

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