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Four new Atari 8-bit games have joined the thirteenth edition of NOMAM's BASIC Ten-Liners 2024, the annual competition seeking the best game programmed with a maximum of ten lines of code in BASIC.
Eric "The Ecg Man" Carr recorded "Gunner" and "Magic Carpet Ride." The former, written in FastBASIC 4.6, is inspired by the classic "Beach Head" (US Gold, 1985): Enemy planes are coming! Your task is to repel as many of them as you can for as long as possible. If a plane gets too close, it will shoot at you, causing you to lose a ship. Lose three ships and the game is over. The program competes in the PUR-120 category (maximum 120 characters per logical line).
As for "Magic Carpet Ride", written in Atari BASIC, it is based on the famous Disney animated film "Aladdin". Use your joystick to dodge the arrows and press the fire button at the end of each game to start over.
The program competes in the PUR-80 category (each line of code with a maximum of 80 characters). To run it, simply start ATR and type: RUN "D:MC.BAS"; or if you start with Basic enabled, then type LOAD"D:MC.BAS"
The third Atari 8-bit title in NOMAM's BASIC Ten-Liners 2024 is «Falling Balls» by Marco "spotlessmind1975" Spedaletti (Italy). The dynamics are simple: the player must drop balls into the baskets at the bottom of the screen, in the shortest possible path. The further the ball travels across the screen, the fewer points it accumulates.
Once released, the ball will fall by itself, following the possibilities given by the obstacles. You cannot alter the movement of the ball once it has been released. "Falling Balls" is written in ugBASIC and competes in the EXTREME-256 category (maximum 256 characters per line).
Finally, in the same category is “Jacks or Better Video Poker” written by D. Scott Williamson in Atari BASIC. It is a classic 5-card poker game. The player bets, the deck of cards is shuffled and 5 cards are dealt. The player then chooses which cards to keep and which to discard.
The discarded cards are replaced, the hand is evaluated, and if the player has a winning hand, he receives a payout based on the value of the hand and his initial bet. This cycle continues as long as the player has sufficient funds to bet, with the option to add more money between hands.
As previously reported in Atariteca, «Chase Me» by Víctor "Vitoco" Parada (Chile) was the first Atari 8-bit game in the competition. The title, written in FastBASIC 4.6 and registered in the EXTREME-256 category, challenges us to collect coins while being chased by evil guardians, each with their own personality.
The deadline for submitting entries is Saturday 16 March at 6pm (GMT), and the awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 6 April.
Gunner + Magic Carpet Ride + Falling Balls + Jacks or Better Video Poker for Atari 8-bit computers
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