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[Philsan]

Before discovering Turbo-Basic XL and programming Cookie Monster, I have made a *simple* Lunar Lander game in Atari Basic called L.E.M.

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EDIT
I attach version 1.1: it is identical to the original release but, thanks to Tezz, there is a new autoboot routine that doesn't display awful READY, POKE and RUN "D:...".
I also attach Antic magazine's program ("Autogo.bas") that creates an AUTORUN.SYS able to load whatever basic program you want.

EDIT 2
I attach version 1.2: it is identical to the original release but there is (another!) autoboot routine that displays "LOADING LEM.BAS"; I think it's the correct solution.
I attach ANALOG magazine's program ("RUNAUTO.BAS") that creates AUTORUN.SYS able to load whatever basic program you want.

Attached Files

•  LEM.zip   11.78K   117 downloads
•  LEM_v1.1.zip   11.81K   82 downloads
•  AUTOGO.zip   1.42K   65 downloads
•  LEM_v1.2.zip   11.78K   87 downloads
•  RUNAUTO.zip   1.44K   84 downloads

Edited by Philsan, Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:19 AM.

[machf]

I don't remember playing one of those on my 800XL ever... it's going to make a nice addition.
Going through my files, I just came across a program I wrote named "LEM.3D" which is an animation of a wireframe "lander"... didn't remember it, but this is my disk with all the 3D stuff I made over 15 years ago.

Edited by machf, Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:47 PM.

[littleman jack]

Looks good!

[TimsterAA]

Pretty cool - and nice job! The only complaint I have is that your ship really shouldn't crash with stars presumably lights years away just by passing in front of them.

--Timster--

[Philsan]

TimsterAA, on Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:09 AM, said:

Pretty cool - and nice job! The only complaint I have is that your ship really shouldn't crash with stars presumably lights years away just by passing in front of them.

With your post you make me remember that I was not very good in astronomy (and in mathematics too) when I was attending high school!
The pixels seems stars but in fact are detritus (line 490 REM TERRAIN AND DETRITUS).
Detritus over the Moon?

[Wrathchild]

Philsan, on Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:01 AM, said:

Detritus over the Moon?

Sound more plausible the 'Shredded Wheat' in my brother's Lunar Lander. Available here.

[Rybags]

To add more confusion to the mix, here's the Lunar Lander I did about 22 years ago http://www.atarimani...ERSION_ID=13848

It must be just about the most popular game name on the 8-bit series.

[Philsan]

Here is Atarimania's Lunar Lander's genre games page:
http://www.atarimani...ILLE_ID-28.html

My game isn't surely the best one but at least the name is original:
L.E.M. Lunar Excursion Module

Wrathchild, on Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:04 PM, said:

Sound more plausible the 'Shredded Wheat' in my brother's Lunar Lander. Available here.

Seems very interesting.
Can you send me this game in another format (not .cas)?
My Atari800Win Plus 4.0 emulator crashes when I attach tape.

EDIT

Rybags, on Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:23 PM, said:

To add more confusion to the mix, here's the Lunar Lander I did about 22 years ago http://www.atarimani...ERSION_ID=13848

Very interesting too!
Instead of detritus or 'Shredded Wheat' your Moon has many asteroids!

Edited by Philsan, Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:39 AM.

[Heaven/TQA]

Hahaha... wasn't aware of that Lunar Lander games are kind of "Hello world"... my first one was "Space Invaders" on Atari... with player shooting at 1 (!) enemy... done in basic...

[CharlieChaplin]

Strange,
when you go to Atarimania (8Bit section) and search for Kemal Ezcan they list at least two Lunar Lander versions (allthough Kemal did program some more of them). But if you search for Lunar Lander, Kemal`s titles are not listed there...
-Andreas Koch.

[www.atarimania.com]

That would be because some pages are incomplete and don't have a genre linked to them yet.

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Atari Frog
http://www.atarimania.com