| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I not-so-recently purchased "Star Command" from SSI. It's graphics are primitive, but I enjoy the strategy involved with playing it. Anyway, after a frustrating round of fighting my way through space losing my men left and right and accidently selling the ship I worked so hard to biuld. I pulled out my disk editor to see if there was a way I could improve my chances of survival. Doing a general ascii search of the files, I ran across this gem. "Compiled in Hisoft Basic". Who says you can't make bucks programing in basic? Ed
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| 3340.1 | There used to be a lot of good Basic programs. | CSC32::K_APPLEMAN | Mon Jan 15 1990 20:10 | 25 | |
There used to be quite a few good games written in Basic. One of the
best originated on the old Radio Shack TRS-80 and was called Starlanes.
You built up intergalactic trading companies by interconnecting planets
and star systems. Stocks would split and companies would merge as time
went on. No great graphics, but lots of strategy always interesting
because you had to play against another person (not the computer).
Over the years, I converted Starlanes to a variety of machines as my
personal computing interests grew. First came the Commodore 64, then
AppleSoft Basic, then ProBasic (anyone remember that. It ran on the
IVIS machines which allowed some decent graphics) and now in
AmigaBasic. Since the original program was copyrighted, I haven't
tried to market it (though the actual program has been changed so
dramatically, I don't see any copyright infringement problems).
Personally, I feel the best computer programs were the early ones where
the authors seemed to spend more time designing the strategy of the
game rather than dazzling pictures. Compare the Apple's Threshold and
Amiga's Vyper for example.
If I get around to making up a documentation file someday, I will
upload the AmigaBasic version of Starlanes. I think you'll find it to
be a lot of fun.
Ken
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| 3340.2 | NZOV01::MCKENZIE | Stop Pollution: Leave a legacy | Mon Jan 15 1990 22:50 | 5 | |
and who could forget TAIPAN for the TRS-80? (well most of us actually
- just kidding) - great wee game...must disg out the listing and
convert to the AMIGA...HMMMM
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| 3340.3 | RBW::WICKERT | MAA USIS Consultant | Mon Jan 29 1990 12:36 | 5 | |
I remember STARLANES from years ago. I'd love to see what you've done with it. -Ray | |||||