07-29-2023, 10:10 PM
Admittedly, the game was bad. Needed more work.
The thing was either to press a key to type a numeral, or use one of the [SHIFT] keys to nudge the ship sideways. Not to try to type "%" or other such character which requires [SHIFT].
The game should have used _KEYDOWN for all keystroke handling. "roquedrivel" isn't patient for stuff like that but otherwise would have had to program for the left and right arrow keys.
Remember that on this topic we're supposed to contribute micro(A) programs only. "roquedrivel" decided to offer one "they" were working on in QB64 which became too much to change so it runs on micro(A), but because micro(A) has nothing like SCREEN 0.
Many games for the ancient Atari, Tandy, Timex etc. computers were austere like this, but people went crazy for it at least during the late 1970's while BASIC was a hot topic. Then there was the need to use assembly language to make it faster, to use graphics mode, to employ sprites, to make it sound off... make it more complicated so it could be sold for money instead of remaining printed in a magazine.
On this forum I can't find a good game that JDJ did some months ago, which was a car race. It was different from mine, but I can't find my topic neither. That does real vertical scrolling and the player has to remain within the lane, besides watching out for obstacles.
The thing was either to press a key to type a numeral, or use one of the [SHIFT] keys to nudge the ship sideways. Not to try to type "%" or other such character which requires [SHIFT].
The game should have used _KEYDOWN for all keystroke handling. "roquedrivel" isn't patient for stuff like that but otherwise would have had to program for the left and right arrow keys.
Remember that on this topic we're supposed to contribute micro(A) programs only. "roquedrivel" decided to offer one "they" were working on in QB64 which became too much to change so it runs on micro(A), but because micro(A) has nothing like SCREEN 0.
Many games for the ancient Atari, Tandy, Timex etc. computers were austere like this, but people went crazy for it at least during the late 1970's while BASIC was a hot topic. Then there was the need to use assembly language to make it faster, to use graphics mode, to employ sprites, to make it sound off... make it more complicated so it could be sold for money instead of remaining printed in a magazine.
On this forum I can't find a good game that JDJ did some months ago, which was a car race. It was different from mine, but I can't find my topic neither. That does real vertical scrolling and the player has to remain within the lane, besides watching out for obstacles.