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The 'Pinball Construction Set' program was advertised, I cant remember the page. I had that program on a Commadore 64 and it was phenomenal for what it did in <
by cl8ton 13y ago
The 'Pinball Construction Set' program was advertised, I cant remember the page. I had that program on a Commadore 64 and it was phenomenal for what it did in <40k memory.
It even had a movable cursor using keyboard with drag and drop. It was written by a guy named Bill Bulge best I remember and have always wondered where this guy is today? given how advanced his software was way back then.
- indenturedsmile 13y agoAccording to Wiki, he's working for Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Budge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Budge
- joezydeco 13y agoBudge has placed the source code to PCS for Apple ][ and Atari 800 on GitHub: https://github.com/billbudge https://github.com/billbudge
- cl8ton 13y agoWow thanks... I'm going to download and take a peek. I have great memories playing with that game.
- joezydeco 13y agoUnless you've worked a lot with 6502s or their brethren, it's going to look like a dense mass of gibberish. Not a lot of comments but excellent use of variable and label names. Budge's assembly is some of the most clever and compact code I've ever seen for these kinds of processors.
- sp332 13y agoI thought this was funny: Oddly, Budge doesn't like to play arcade and videogames very much. In fact, he says it was "sheer torture" to play pinball steadily for months while working on his construction set. http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue57/computer_game.html http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue57/computer_game....
- Pxtl 13y agoAnother one I remember was Arcade Game Construction Kit that in hindsight blows me away with its power on the C64. A full dev-kit for platformer and top-view games including sprite editor/animator, level-editor, tile-editor, sound-editor, etc. All windowed. I spent days in a beanbag chair with a comfy Epyx joystick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Epyx_500XJ.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Epyx_500XJ.jpg oh my god that form-factor needs to come back) making games.
- DerekL 13y agoYeah, I have one of those Epyx joysticks too. It's great.
- zandorg 13y agoA Speedlink Competition Pro USB looks a bit like this and is available (though not at Amazon anymore).
- soneil 13y agoInteresting, I know that stick as the Konix Speedking. Not complaining, the more names I find for it, the better chance I have of finding one.
- mynameishere 13y agohttp://www.virtualapple.org/pinballconstructionsetdisk.html http://www.virtualapple.org/pinballconstructionsetdisk.html ...that cursor is actually really hard to use. I guess mice have spoiled us all.