Target Pong for Dragon
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 7:12 pm
Hi everybody,
I converted an old COMMODORE PET Basic game for the Dragon computer: TARGET PONG
I always liked that game. Though it is "only" a BASIC-game, it's fast and entertaining.
I had this plan for quite a while. Finally done. Don't blame me for the ugly code. I left the "historic" code unchanged, where I could and modified only, where necessary. It's obvious, those were the days, where the result was important, no matter what was inside. For small, confined problems maybe not always the worst solution.
I did the conversion the genuine retro-way, on a real Dragon 32, with the real keyboard, with the inbuilt "editor", with a cassette recorder. I wanted to experience again, what it was like to do programming work in 1983. And I like the sound of the old keyboards. I still have a lot of the "guaranteed 20 million keystrokes" left, which they've been advertising.
Well, yes it's, ...argh..., time consuming . Big screens and modern editors really make things easier, I remember now
I never knew, where I was in the code on that tiny screen. Editing with that simple line editor is so much work. Printers really were important those days!
I don't want to withhold the program from you, after all this work.
Have fun!
-Rolo
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I converted an old COMMODORE PET Basic game for the Dragon computer: TARGET PONG
I always liked that game. Though it is "only" a BASIC-game, it's fast and entertaining.
I had this plan for quite a while. Finally done. Don't blame me for the ugly code. I left the "historic" code unchanged, where I could and modified only, where necessary. It's obvious, those were the days, where the result was important, no matter what was inside. For small, confined problems maybe not always the worst solution.
I did the conversion the genuine retro-way, on a real Dragon 32, with the real keyboard, with the inbuilt "editor", with a cassette recorder. I wanted to experience again, what it was like to do programming work in 1983. And I like the sound of the old keyboards. I still have a lot of the "guaranteed 20 million keystrokes" left, which they've been advertising.
Well, yes it's, ...argh..., time consuming . Big screens and modern editors really make things easier, I remember now
I never knew, where I was in the code on that tiny screen. Editing with that simple line editor is so much work. Printers really were important those days!
I don't want to withhold the program from you, after all this work.
Have fun!
-Rolo
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