Date   : Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:42:03 -0000
From   : dominic@... (BRAHMS)
Subject: A New Game for the Beeb! V1.1

Yes, without the menu / hi scores stuff ;)

If you want to retrieve your score after playing do:

P. !&7A

Dom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Harte" <thomasharte@...>
To: "bbc-list" <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] A New Game for the Beeb! V1.1


Yep, that seems to work reliably. You know, after I'd stopped trying to do 
it with the ADFS ROM...

Presumably the game will work from any medium, so it'd be fine to repackage 
it onto tape?


> From:: "BRAHMS" <dominic@...>
> To: "Thomas Harte" <thomasharte@...>
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] A New Game for the Beeb! V1.1
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:13:36 -0000

> Just thought...try just typing *GAME, you'll not get any of the menu or
> hi-scores stuff but you should still get the game with any luck! Please
> tell
> me if this works and I'll just re-write the menus to use a non-mode7
>
> Cheers
>
> Dom
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas Harte" <thomasharte@...>
> To: "bbc-list" <bbc-micro@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] A New Game for the Beeb! V1.1
>
>
> > This game is so close to being Electron compatible (or ElectrEm
> > compatible, anyway)! If I've understood what's going on correctly, it
> > first loads some sort of menu which is probably in Mode-7 because on
> > ElectrEm it looks like
> > <a
> href=http://members.allegro.cc/ThomasHarte/temp/BallGameElkTitle.png.>http:/
> /members.allegro.cc/ThomasHarte/temp/BallGameElkTitle.png.</a>>
> >>From there it seems to depend on what keys I press. I haven't really
> >>figured out the perfect formulation yet, but sometimes it starts and 
> >>runs
>
> >>perfectly (albeit slowly unless you enable the Slogger Turbo board or
> >>ElectrEm-fictional "full BBC Micro speed") other times it seems to
> >>incorrectly display in mode 4 or 6, i.e. lots of monochrome graphics and
> >>what should clearly be one character line of the display split across 
> >>two
>
> >>lines...
> >
> > It's asking a great deal, but any chance of Electron support in a future
> > version?
> >
> >> From:: "BRAHMS" <dominic@...>
> >> To: <bbc-micro@...>
> >> Subject: [BBC-Micro] A New Game for the Beeb! V1.1
> >> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:48:54 -0000
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Due to rushing to get the thing out before starting my Birthday 
> >> drinking
> >> session there was a small problem with write-protected discs!
> >>
> >> A new version is now available at:
> >> <a
> >> href=<a
> href=http://www.brahms.demon.co.uk/software/bbc/index.html>http://wwwbrahms
> >http://www.brahms.demon.co.uk/software/bbc/index.html>http://www.brahms>
> >> .demon.co.uk/software/bbc/index.html</a>
> >> It is still best to make sure (especially if using BeebEm) that the
> write
> >> protection is turned off, this will allow you to save your hi-scores





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