FS: BASIC Game Book

[Terry Yager]

OK, I know some people on this board are interested in rolling-your-own computer games in BASIC. Here's a book that teaches all you need to know. It's The A To Z Book of Computer Games, by Thomas C. McIntire, from TAB Books, 1979. Lots of info on designing & coding your own games, including 26 ready-to-run game listings, from Abstract to Z-End & every letter in-between. Own this handy lil' guide for a mere five dollars + five more for shipping & handling. PM me for more details, or with swap offers.

--T

 

[carlsson]

Does it teach you how to find spare time and motivation to get going too? The past year, pure lazyness in combination with too many other things to attend to are the reasons which kept me away from serious hobby programming, game or otherwise.

 

[vic user]

I am one of those that has about two dozen half finished games.

Start writing one, get some basics done, and then get distracted and go on to something else.

If I ever actually finish one, and have it good enough to let other people have a go on it, I would freak!

Chris

 

[Computer Collector]

hmmm..

after reading this, now I know that what I did* is not so uncommon :wink:

*I started writing a game but stopped writing it a couple of months ago
I should get back to it soon

 

[Erik]

I started with computers in the late 1970s and wrote a bunch of games. Mostly simple, silly little things in BASIC for the IBM PC.

I think I got most of that out of my system then. . .

Erik

 

[joe sixpack]

I am one of those that has about two dozen half finished games.

Start writing one, get some basics done, and then get distracted and go on to something else.

If I ever actually finish one, and have it good enough to let other people have a go on it, I would freak!

Chris

if i had a buck for every website, program, or project ive started got half
done and forgot about i'd be rich.

HA! even if i did go back and try to finish them i'd be lost because i write
such sloppy code i'd have to spend half the time just documenting it
just to understand what the hell i did last or was in the middle of.

ah but thats life...

 

[Terry Yager]

Hmmmn...I think I see a pattern developing here. I wonder if ADD rates run higher among computer people than in the general population?

--T