[Coco] scary old code

[Todd Wallace]

I wrote part of a game when i was about 14 or 15. it was supposed to be star fighter game.  Had 4 guns at the corners and fired at a center crosshair at enemies. Written in BASIC.  Also wrote a very basic GUI client that looked like Mac OS.  would load a few apps.  But alas I lost it when I wrote an Undelete program for DECB.  Before I perfected it,  I messed up and corrupted the disk.  Those were the days.

- Todd Wallace

On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:28 PM, Willard Goosey wrote:

> Ouch!
> 
> Last night I stumbled across a BASIC game I wrote when I was in the
> 8th grade.  "Bad" doesn't even begin to describe it!
> 
> People who have no musical ability at all (that's me BTW) should NOT
> be allowed to use the SOUND statement! :-)  SOUND 255,255 is just
> plain painful!
> 
> Not quite so painful, but still bad, is the BASIC database manager (it
> wanted to look like dBaseIII+) I wrote in '90.  That's actually mostly
> OK at the code level, except for handling conditionals on the
> reports.  I didn't understand what I was doing at all, and that
> clearly shows in the code.
> 
> Then there's the extensive hacks I did to some of the Sample Programs,
> mainly "Print or Revise" and "Color Doodle".  But at least those
> aren't entirely my fault!
> 
> Willard
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> Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
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