«ACME, Inc.»: New Contestant for NOMAM's BASIC Ten-Liners 2024 | Download
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Marco "spotlessmind1975" Spedaletti (Italy) has submitted his second entry for NOMAM's BASIC Ten-Liners 2024 competition: «ACME, Inc.».
«ACME, Inc.» is a single-player game developed in ugBASIC, compatible with various 8-bit home computers such as the Atari 400/800/XL/XE, TRS-80 Color Computer 1/2 and Olivetti Prodest PC128.Inspired by the popular animated series, the goal of ACME, Inc. is to guide Coyote and help him avoid the rolling barrels for as long as possible. The longer you avoid the barrels, the more your score increases.
On their website, Spedaletti emphasizes the game's modest size and adherence to the competition's strict coding restrictions, especially in the EXTREME-256 category, limiting each line to a maximum of 256 characters without relying on third-party libraries.
It highlights the importance of ugBASIC in enabling cross-platform development, as it offers isomorphic language features and cross-compilers compatible with both Linux and Windows, translating high-level algorithms directly into assembly code for the target CPU/computer.
Notably, Spedaletti’s first entry in the competition, “Falling Balls,” challenges players to strategically drop balls into baskets at the bottom of the screen, aiming for the shortest path to maximize points. As previously reported by Atariteca, the deadline for registration for NOMAM's BASIC Ten-Liners 2024 is Saturday, March 16 at 6:00 p.m. (GMT), and the awards ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, April 6.
ACME Inc. for Atari 8-bit computers
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