antor44 / basicrash

BasiCrash MSX Basic game in text mode, plus other versions for compatibility with standard Basic

BasiCrash

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BasiCrash_640.mp4

BasiCrash is a free MSX Basic game, a new old school arcade game developed with default Basic without inserting machine code, and in text mode (monochrome or SCREEN 0).

How to Play: The player controls a ship, which must eat all the Spheres inside a two-dimensional universe enclosed while avoiding bombs left by Nazi extraterrestrials. Extra ships every 500 points. Bonus Stage gives 10 points per Sphere, no lives lost.

Game buttons: Up/DOWN - move, Enter - play or restart

Play online: https://webmsx.org/?MACHINE=MSX2E&ROM=https://github.com/antor44/BasiCrash/raw/main/basicras.rom

Repository for downloads: https://github.com/antor44/BasiCrash

Requirements:

-MSX 1/2/2+ Europe or USA BIOS

For MSX turbo R Europe or USA BIOS add this Basic line:

5 DEFUSR=39+PEEK(-2385)+PEEK(-2384)*256:IFUSR(0)THENLINE>0COPY0&H80F6OR384ALLYOURBASEAREBELONGTOUS!

basicra0.bas: basic version with VPOKE/VPEEK, less than 1 Kbyte

basicra1.bas: basic version with arrays, more compatible with other BASIC

basicra2.bas: basic version with VPOKE/VPEEK and arrays

basicra3.bas: enhanced version, more specialized MSX Basic instructions

basicra4.bas: enhanced version with lives and extra lives

basicras.bas: version 4 MSX Basic tokenized

basicr.cas: version 4 CAS file

basicras.rom: version 4 ROM file (MSX Basic is required)