Wednesday 26 October 2016

Day 740, Draughty BASIC


Connect the Apple replica 1 to a serial port, launch Tera Term, configure the char and line settings, fiddle with the baud rate if data transfer is flakey, and we're off.

That's it (basically.)

I tested a couple of BASIC games, Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Checkers, or draughts as we call it.

As I've completely forgotten the rules for draughts I managed to eventually crash the game with an overflow error.  Go* me - there's only so much error checking it had been programmed to deal with and an idiot wasn't in their game plan.

Phewee, it really doesn't get more exciting than this.

Next up, World of Wozcraft.**



* Go.  That's a different game entirely, and not suitable for such an underpowered machine.
** Apparently that isn't a thing.



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