My first game

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My first game

Post by Chris »

This is just a warm-up to see what I can do in Oric. This is after a couple days of studying the manual and applying what I've learned in Batari Basic to Oric Basic.
http://www.atari2600land.com/PUCKMAN.tap
BTW, is there a way to get rid of the blinking cursor in the corner?
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Post by Dbug »

Here are some tricks for you:

You can get rid of the blinking cursor and the click click of the keyboard by doing POKE #26A,10

The bits in #26A define a number of things:
- 0 -> Cursor visible or not
- 1 -> Video output enabled or not (software only)
- 3 -> Key-click enabled or not
- 4 -> Store if the last displayed character was ESCAPE
- 5 -> Protect or not the two first columns of screen when using PRINT

Bits 2, 6 and 7 are not used


If you want to get rid of the CAPS message in the top of the screen, you can just do a POKE #BB80+35,0

#BB80 is the start address of the screen, and 35 is the offset to reach the character just before the word CAPS, and 0 is an attribute which mean "BLACK INK"

Hope it helps :)
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