ALERT! ALERT! We are doing this wrong. It has been pointed out in a comment to an earlier installment that we missed an important part about what this contest was supposed to produce! More on that in a moment… But first, let’s look at a faster version of the challenge, created by Dillon Teagan: 10 […]| Sub-Etha Software
These types of posts are probably my favorite. Someone posts something with a coding challenge, and folks start submitting their ideas, and I get to play collector and just repost without doing any work… (Well, except I am submitting ideas as well, this time.) This all kicked off when Michael Pittsley shared a contest he […]| Sub-Etha Software
And now back to CoCo … – Michael Pittsley posted in the TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) group on Facebook: Many of us have our CoCos and have memories or how good we once were writing basic programs on it. Including myself. I found this article in the first UnderColor magazine. It was a contest to […]| Sub-Etha Software
I recently got lured in to downloading some casual game for my phone. (Thank you, gas station rewards program, for telling me I could earn a bonus from you if I downloaded this stupid game.) I gave…| Sub-Etha Software
As we begin this part, let’s look at the BASIC Lights Out code as it stands currently: 5 REM SELECT GAME6 GOSUB 600010 REM INITIALIZE GRID20 GOSUB 400030 REM SHOW GRID40 GOSUB 100047 IF LO=0 …| Sub-Etha Software
Where where we? Oh, right. Light Out, in very basic BASIC. If Lights Out always started with the same lights on, once you figured out how to win, you could repeat those steps and win every time. Th…| Sub-Etha Software
The story so far… In the beginning, we learned a bit about the game Lights Out and its history. We then saw some very basic BASIC that implements the basic functionality of a basic game of th…| Sub-Etha Software
Updates: 2023-02-06 – William Astle pointed out that Color BASIC doeshave ELSE. Not sure why I thought it didn’t — I never had a machine with plain Color BASIC. Striked out! In th…| Sub-Etha Software
Recently, Rick Adams let me see a CoCo 3 Lights Out game he was working on. I have heard of the Lights Out, but have never played it. I gave it a shot… I was immediately frustrated by how dif…| Sub-Etha Software