[Coco] Snakes for OS-9

[Bill Pierce]

Tim, there are several os9 programs you could use,  One is "Lines", which (of course) draws random lines on the screen in various colors (similar to the Windows screensaver). Another is (my favorite) "Landscape" which draws a 3 dimensional landscape (hills, valleys, etc) and has cmd line parameters to set the resolution ( which also determines the speed). Another is "eye" which (IIRC) a large, moving eyeball on the screen, Another is "walk" which is a walking stick figure. Also, there's a bouncing ball demo for OS9
The TOP of the list would be "waterfall" which was a "ported" graphic of a beatiuful waterfall using palette switching to emulate the water cascading. This was a very early Coco 3 "Graphics Demo" to show of the Coco 3 and the original was in RSDOS but it got ported to OS9 Level 2 and is still one of the best.
Then there is always the "Sierra XMas demo".
Most of these are on RTSI or the Color Computer Archives. If you can't find them let me know, I have copies
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Oct 7, 2014 5:53 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Snakes for OS-9


On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Probably not what you are looking for, Tim, but I wrote a game called
> Snake-In-The-Grass, which was published by T&D.  It is a BASIC program and
> runs under RSDOS.  I copied it after a very early IBM-PC game called
> "Hoser".  It's fairly fast, and has about 20 or so screens of increasing
> complexity that you need to guide your snake through while eating three
> randomly placed mice on each screen.
>
> Was the program you wanted a game or a screen saver?

I was looking for more of a screen saver than a game. I'm putting
together my next video and need something to exhibit multitasking
visually for OS-9.

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tim lindner

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