Star wars beta for zx81

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Crayon21
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Star wars beta for zx81

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so once again i decided to try to fit a game into 2k

couldn't get the death star right so i just made a rudimentary starfield

you have to input numbers which are effectively movement squares. when you are in the correct spot, han comes in and "kills" vader. The death star explosion is also impossible to make so i did what i could. this is just a demo for now, the full thing will need 16k

could use some help with this :)
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Re: Star wars beta for zx81

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so i decided to tweak the game a bit. this is the star wars help desk app for the zx81 utilizing all the space afforded by a 32k ram pack

it's somewhat...odd

enjoy :D
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Re: Star wars beta for zx81

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thoughts on the game?
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Re: Star wars beta for zx81

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Hello, the program can not run properly as is. Did you try to run it yourself ?
Try first to write the algorithm of your program, you will see that the listing you made has many errors.
Keep trying but read the manual and tape in some other programs, it will help you understand yours errors. ;)
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Re: Star wars beta for zx81

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Dim_75 wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:03 pm Hello, the program can not run properly as is. Did you try to run it yourself ?
Try first to write the algorithm of your program, you will see that the listing you made has many errors.
Keep trying but read the manual and tape in some other programs, it will help you understand yours errors. ;)
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Re: Star wars beta for zx81

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Crayon21 wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:57 pm
Dim_75 wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:03 pm Hello, the program can not run properly as is. Did you try to run it yourself ?
Try first to write the algorithm of your program, you will see that the listing you made has many errors.
Keep trying but read the manual and tape in some other programs, it will help you understand yours errors. ;)
what do you mean by algorithm? like an outline?
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Re: Star wars beta for zx81

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Try to put on paper what you want your program to do.
So you will know when you have to initialize variables or perform a test upon values, jump to a specific section of your code (subroutine)...

But first of all, follow the ZX81 manual and its exercices, it is very didactic.

Here a simple example :
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Re: Star wars beta for zx81

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anything else?
In Heck, there are two options for perpetual torment:

Eat the Puckerberry and suffer for eternity:
drink nothing but a cocktail of The Last Dab and Mexican Cake blended and served with
habanero slices
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