07-29-2023, 07:07 PM
The game you apparently didn't like was the one my friend failed to translate to micro(A). 
It's simply because it needs more LOC to give the illusion of animation. Such as pressing [9] key, the ship moves down the lane and the player sees all nine steps of it. Put a starry background and make it move as part of the illusion.
But it was meant to be a simple game. Not for some slob to steal it without making any modification to it except the "original author" comment at the top.
This was sort of based on another game which was about cars instead. Not really a race. But the "aliens" were drunk drivers determined to crash into the player's car. The player's car could move vertically in that other game but not very far ahead, it was sort of like the ship in Centipede. Also this was more or less like "Demolition Derby", my favorite Tandy Color Computer cartridge.
It's simply because it needs more LOC to give the illusion of animation. Such as pressing [9] key, the ship moves down the lane and the player sees all nine steps of it. Put a starry background and make it move as part of the illusion.
But it was meant to be a simple game. Not for some slob to steal it without making any modification to it except the "original author" comment at the top.
This was sort of based on another game which was about cars instead. Not really a race. But the "aliens" were drunk drivers determined to crash into the player's car. The player's car could move vertically in that other game but not very far ahead, it was sort of like the ship in Centipede. Also this was more or less like "Demolition Derby", my favorite Tandy Color Computer cartridge.