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Just a small test I'm doing, to see if speedwise my wide would work, now to get the entire game to fit in 10 lines, with player control, handling the longer strides when killing extremities, etc... that's going to be a challenge :D Even if not in 10 lines - this would be seriously impressive speed ...

That doesn't look like BASIC speeds to me! Nice speed - if in BASIC this must be plotting strings and likely using LEFT$, RIGHT$ or MID$ to show the right part! I might try something with this technique (if that's what is being used here). But one thing I found took code space is the initialisation...

rax wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:34 pm These are my attempts:

My goodness rax - these are all brilliant! Wall looks familiar to the dflat game you made!

You have plenty of choices to make a submission or even more than one!

How does that work, the number of characters, if I use "?" it gets expanded to "PRINT", does that count as one or five characters? Good question - not sure because when the line is listed back then PRINT shows up in full. I think '?' will not be acceptable because of that (but j...

Very nice 6502nerd, The game looks very good :) This competition is a very good opportunity to promote our modest computer Oric, but I'm not sure if Oric has a chance against Commodore and Spectrum. Last week i tried to do a few games on 10 lines. I will make a video with my attempts to games :) Ab...

xahmol wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:36 amNice!

Thank you!

Waou .. impressive !! Only 10 lines of basic for a game like that !! I'm very surprised. I have written tons or C and assembly and still have no game done .. so .. i am also admirative . Congratulations .. hope you'll win the contest. Thank you jbperin for your kind words, I really appreciate it! :D

Hello! Maybe some of you have heard about the BASIC 10 Liner competition - write a game in 10 lines of BASIC. This is my submission for 2021. It is great fun trying to squeeze a game in to only about 1 screen of BASIC. I managed to have colour, sound and even custom graphics for this entry :-) I hop...

May I suggest that new Oric hardware peripherals, which extend the ROM/RAM banking facilities immensely, might also be a target for your near horizon .. ? At least keep an eye on extending dflat with new slots, because I think this is kinda of a thing with newGen Oric hardware .. Absolutely, if the...

I hope that I helped :) Dear rax - I really appreciated the creativity and getting to know the language which resulted in some nice programs! Yes your feedback helped a lot, I am looking at all of them to see how and which I can address in the next release, which will probably take a couple of week...

Ha yes, I remember making the transition from 1 index to 0 index too! :lol: Regarding the input a$ query - I just tested that and it is not eating spaces, so not yet sure what this is. :?: I ported dflat from my homebrew computer, which had 64KB of ROM! In the design of that, I had 2 port pins of on...

*** Some edits to the below to explain work in progress, as yet not released to GitHub *** Thank you rax for the detailed feedback. I will make brief comments here, not all I think will be possible to address and some are misunderstandings so I need to make documentation clearer! - Sensitive keys: Y...

I must say this is really impressive. Definitely something we should be able to load in overlay ram from disk or use it from a custom cartridge. Amazing work! Thank you Chema! I know you have done fantastic things for the Oric so I'm delighted for the kind words from you! :-) Indeed, something Dbug...

Thanks jpberin for your comments and yes you saw the funny big in the comment, I didn't notice until now! :lol: Thanks for your thoughts on the syntax - I did try to keep it relatively light with structured programming support. Long variable names are all tokenised so they all take the same amount o...

Very nice rax! Yes I wanted the plot command to work in lores and hires, glad you spotted that..there is a secret poke which changes the pitch e.g. you can make the text be 5 pixels (or some other value than 6) apart! Also, you can save the screen with bsave 0xa000,8000,"name.tap" (restore...