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Re: New Homebrew Apple II Game



BLuRry wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 2:55:24 PM UTC-6, Brian wrote:
>> Here's my 2nd entry into the Retrospectiva BASIC competition.  I wrote
>> 
>> most of it last week during a business trip to kill time at the
>> 
>> airport, in the plane, and at the hotel after work.  I can only image
>> 
>> what the passengers sitting next to me thought :).   This time around
>> 
>> I used shape tables for all of my characters and on-screen text (Thank
>> 
>> you Apple Mechanic!).  Please let me know if you find any bugs or
>> 
>> anything.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Link to disk image:
>> http://rsp.retrocomputacion.com/games-the-deadly-orbs-by-brian-picchi/
> 
> You know, I have to admit I launched it with a small amount of skepticism
> being a basic game -- but I have to admit it's pretty cool! 

This game is probably better on real hardware. I was using OpenEmulator
which is limited to 1 MHz speed (no Transwarp yet). I think my Transwarp IIe
will make this game faster paced!

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