Mini Pacman Made From Just 5 Lines Of Code (Atari 8-Bit)

Written by Robin Edwards in 1987

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[deshawnbw]

@RPKGameVids Where can we get the source code for this? Could you put it in the notes? Thanks

[RPKGameVids]

@deshawnbw I'll put it in the info box eventually.

[senorverde09]

The C64 may be able to pull it off to, as common BASIC commands like PRINT and GOTO could be abbreviated into two letters by first typing the first letter of the command, and then SHIFT+the second letter of the command. Of course, filling lines of BASIC this way will leave them to be uneditable when you list them out. Same with the Atari 8-bit?

[RPKGameVids]

@senorverde09 You can list it out on the A8, but the abbreviations wont be there anymore and it'll be full words. You would still be able to edit it, as long as you replaced the words with their abbrivations again.

[28steryan]

I used to do that on the AMIGA then put in swear words and generally screw with it in a crazy way.

[RPKGameVids]

@28steryan Lol! I'll probably try that.

[happydelicious]

Any system can do it in 5 lines or fewer. All anyone is doing here is using abbreviations, like you said. That's just a function of the interpreter or compiler. Has nothing to do with the system or architecture. Still neat though. Modern day equivalent is something like using Javascript shellcode. For instance, shellcode to implement the C64 in Javascript in like 20 lines of code is available. Pretty neat, but the machine code is naturally thousands and thousands of lines.

[mauroestebanrodrigue]

real short code for real interpreter of basic.i need 8000 lines of vb .net to do that in those days

[mp2611]

Haha awesome!

[thepirategamerboy12]

can u make a text file containing the code?

[sinistermoon]

Neat!



[16plus4equals264]

The Commodore 16 just like the C64 and Atari 8bit can abbreviate commands too, and just the same it will no longer be abbreviated when you list it.

Anyway, I love little simple yet clever oddities like these. Pretty inspiring :)