Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃 on Nostr: Amazing videogames from JARB SOFTWARE (which I kept misreading as JORB) ...
Amazing videogames from JARB SOFTWARE (which I kept misreading as JORB)
https://archive.org/details/laserstar.coco
(disk didn't work in XRoar, I had to hit Load, pick game.bas, then CLOAD and RUN; I love loading old software)
Then it updates like once every 3 seconds, and you can't aim, just hope it shoots forward half somewhere.
Not that it's awful for a short BASIC type-in, but Star Raiders came out in 1980, and JARB is clearly aping their scoring system and tone but it's… uh.
#retrocomputing #coco
https://archive.org/details/laserstar.coco
(disk didn't work in XRoar, I had to hit Load, pick game.bas, then CLOAD and RUN; I love loading old software)
Then it updates like once every 3 seconds, and you can't aim, just hope it shoots forward half somewhere.
Not that it's awful for a short BASIC type-in, but Star Raiders came out in 1980, and JARB is clearly aping their scoring system and tone but it's… uh.
#retrocomputing #coco