A play-through and examination of a new "type-in" style game for VIC-20: Borg Attack! Save the peaceful, but very important, Chandrans from assimilation by an oncoming Borg cube by piloting a souped-up shuttlepod with secret stealth technology and weapons. I wrote the game almost entirely in BASIC in the spirit of the type-in programs in home computer magazines of the eary/mid '80s. Plus, there's an adaptation of Lil' Zilch with color, animation, and sound, originally written for the text-only PAL-1 (KIM-1 replica) 6502 SBC in TinyBASIC.
00:00 Intro
01:54 Docs
02:36 Code Snippets
08:43 Play Borg Attack
18:02 Play Lil Zilch
19:52 Outro
SOFTWARE
Borg Attack! and Lil' Zilch for VIC-20:
www.vanportmedia.com/PAL-1/cbm/
Borg Attack! and Lil' Zilch for 6502 Tiny BASIC (Pittman) and VTL-02C (as on KIM-1):
www.vanportmedia.com/PAL-1/games/
RESOURCE
Masterhit1 TH-cam channel:
www.youtube.com/@masterhit1
The Webdoktor/Masterhit1 site:
netzherpes.de/
Have a comment? You can e-mail me, via my website's homepage.
The Spartan Conditions here:
Camera: obsolete iPhone 5s
Microphone: castoff USB mic from a karaoke machine
Screen Recording: SimpleScreenRecorder for Linux (free)
Screen Capture: Screenshot (part of Linux Xubuntu)
Video Editing: kdenlive for Linux (free)
Audio Editing: Audacity for Linux (free)
In other words, if *I* can do it, so can you. :^)
Music: (c) & (p) 2022, David H. Hassler
Best regards.