Atari 8-Bit Action
A quickie, final entry for the 2019 10-liner BASIC contest: GARDEN. Inspired by arjanvandermeij’s #plottertwitter art “8 bits binary flowers,” I wanted to create something similar on the Atari 8-bit. I recently learned how to draw ellipses in my work on Renderiffic, my SVG renderer for Atari...
Atari 8-Bit Action
Back to my personal theme for 10-liner entries — classic BASIC algorithms. It’s hard to get more classic than Conway’s Game of Life. This simple game/simulation was covered so times from many perspectives in Byte Magazine, Creative Computing, and so on. I used the algorithm as described by Mark D....
Atari 8-Bit Action
My third grade teacher hated me and told my mom that I would grow up to be a serial killer. (This turned out to be inaccurate.) She also taught me the dice game “Pig.” In our class, the teacher would roll two dice again and again. Students would add each dice roll to their score, and could quit at...