Flying Saucers (C64)

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:28 pm

http://www.indieretronews.com/2020/08/f ... -game.html

This thread is for me finding a compiled version of the game. IndieRetroNews just linked to github and I don't see any C64 executables.

I am not building this shit.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:29 pm

It might be a BASIC (.bas) file - Flack, do you know how to run .bas files?

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 3:10 am

The second link in that article downloads a working D64 disk image. Use that one.

https://csdb.dk/release/download.php?id=240630

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:09 pm

That looks like fun. Kind of a Choplifter meets Defender style. Why didn't they make that game in 1986?

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Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:20 pm

AArdvark wrote: Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:09 pm That looks like fun. Kind of a Choplifter meets Defender style. Why didn't they make that game in 1986?

This game was written using XC=BASIC, which is a cross compiler for the C64. The short explanation is, it's easier to create games these days than it was back then using modern tools. Also I looked up the programmer and it looks like he graduated high school in 1996, which means he would have been 7 or 8 in 1986. :)

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