After putting most of my old Amiga-sources here on GitHub, i was thinking if there is anything even older which i could share here, too.
In 1989, the German Commodore 64 magazine '64´er' called for creating a BASIC program, with a maximum length of 20 lines, which was the only rule as far as i remember.
I did BASIC for a while and just had started with assembly, so i thought, why not combine that to create a little game. Maybe because i´d just finished reading Arthur C. Clarke´s 2001: A Space Odyssey, i called the game Car Race 2001. Why not.
It was finished in time, sent to that magazine, and, too bad, rejected. Ha ha.
I found (created?) three reasons (not to say excuses) to share it here:
- It shows how easy it can be to combine BASIC and assemby, i miss that on modern languages
- The assembly-part, although very short and simple, uses self-modifying code, which was not evil to that time. Is it today?
- FORF=XTOYSTEPP sounds somehow Klingon, right? --> FOR f = x TO y STEP p Whitespace is overvalued, isn´t it?
To play the game load CarRace2001.gz, a compressed D64 disc-image, into your favourite C64-emulator.
Use joystic in port 2 to pilot the car.
Rules: Just stay on the road.
Sound support: yes of course
Two merged screenshots instead of a textfile, because of the special characters. On C64, these characters were used, for example, to clear the screen or move the cursor.
The first lines contain the car-graphics and the assembly-subroutine.
