Announcing "Bob and the Alien FireFlies" a new game coming soon for your Atari 2600 

With all those titles you've suggested I'll have my work cut out for the next 20 years. I'm keeping the "Learning Atari Basic" series going, keep an eye out for "Playing with playfields" in the next week or so, work on the game meant that the videos suffered a little. Nice change from the usual though ;)

@@8bitsinthebasement But they are great tutorials! I really enjoy them! Plus you could go further and make a more advanced version of Bob for PS2 or Amiga, etc.

Hey Rudy, thank you very much. You don't have too long to wait now. I'll post a download link in the next few weeks. Once I'm happy with how it looks and plays (I'm really quite happy with it so far). You'll find the link in this video's description and I'll also send out a community post. Keep a weather eye out!

Thanks Stewart, I'll be posting a free download link in the next week or two. I'd love to know what your take on it is ;)

Thanks man. I have no plans of selling this game, I'll be posting a download link in the next few weeks and I'd love for you to give it a try and see what you think of it. If you'd like to play it on real hardware and you don't have a way to get the ROM on your Atari PM me and we'll see if we can sort something out ;)

@@8bitsinthebasement that works man! I'll get a hold of you when you are done, I would love to review it :)

Thanks Rach, and you'll be able to play it soon enough too, I've made quite a few improvements and added some little animations for different things that lead to game over. Free download Yay!

Bob n' Bob's buddy :) , I'll post a download link in the next couple of weeks, just adding the finishing touches. Thanks a lot man ;)

Thanks Dave, I'm glad that I stopped myself and made what I thought would be just one level in my sprawling Bob RPG game into an Atari type game (that and the fact that I had only 4K to work with). I've gotten great feedback from everyone who's played it so far ;)

Thanks Ken, and thanks for showing it in your video, the final version should be along real soon. Oh, thanks again for the suggestion on the game to game over thing too ;)

Not as nuts as the amount of time I've put into it over the past 3 weeks ;)

Hey Todd, thanks very much. I'm having a lot of fun "testing" it with my son in two player mode and I've had loads of very positive feed back about it so far. You'll be able to try it out soon enough. Free download link will be posted in the next few weeks ;)

Merci beaucoup, je n'aurais jamais pensé que j'arriverais à creer un jeu, mais ce bAtari basic est vraiment quelque chose. Facile à apprendre, tres puissant et rapide. J'espere sortir le jeu d'ici une semaine ou deux ci je ne trouve pas de gros bugs.

@@8bitsinthebasement c'est clair , il à l'air très efficace, un grand bravo, cela fait vraiment plaisir et hâte de l'essayer.

It's working on everything it's been thrown at so far. Atari 2600, 7800, clone system, Flashback, Evercade and of course Stella. The version in the video is what I thought would be the release one. However I had a lot of feedback and I've made some minor changes all for the better. I've added in some pre game over animations (with sound) and I reworked how the player starts a game too. It's amazing how one or two minor tweaks can really make a huge difference. I'll post a link to download it when it's ready and you can tell me what you think ;)

@@8bitsinthebasement look forward to it

I decided on a name for the other guy just the other day (it's not Rob). You'll see what I settled on when it's released in the next couple of weeks, free download yay!

You can eliminate these lines all together if you wish, but in doing so you have to give up one missile. Just put "set kernel_options no_blank_lines" without the quotes at the beginning of your code. If you watch episode 7 of learning bAtari basic I explain how to do this in more detail and about 3 minutes into the video I show the difference it makes. Here's the link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ByO3TV5lhXc.html Thanks for watching and good luck with your programming ;)

​​@@8bitsinthebasementThank you very much, my friend. I'm trying to learn this "engine" (if we can call it that), to create my own ATARI games. By the way, can the size of the scenery blocks be changed? Once again, I thank you for your kindness.

@@charlamps They can but to be honest I don't remember exactly how to do it. I tried it once for a game idea I had and it worked well. The best bAtari resource on the web is here www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html you should be able to find all you need to use it there.

or just Bob, I'd love to know what you think of it ;)