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Re: Breakout Game

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Hi,

Duncan Snowden writes:
> Francois LE COAT wrote:
>> This is really kind of you to have prepared all this work for me.
>> I will manage to make it work. I know I can, because it already
>> worked.
> 
> Not a problem. It's been a long time since I did anything on the ZX81,
> so I quite enjoyed the nostalgia. :) (And don't worry; it didn't take
> as long as you might think. Maybe a couple of hours in total. The OCR
> was surprisingly good.)
> 
> I think I felt a certain affinity with your problem, because I've
> lost the first game I ever wrote. It *might* still be hanging around on
> a cassette somewhere, but I haven't been able to find it.
> 
> Good luck! Let us all know how you get on.

I've made good progress ...

I translated "breakout.txt" sources that you gave, into "breakout.p".
For that, I used <http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/zxtext2p/> and obtained :

	<http://eureka.atari.org/breakout.p>

I corrected the sources, loading the ZX81 program with the emulator.
The actual problem is the game can't be played. The breakout graphics
are drawn, but the ball is not displayed. Nothing happens. The emulator
is not crashed, but it is simply not happening anything ...

I'm wondering whether the breakout game that we are speaking about, is
a very special program. In facts, it includes "machine language" within.
Maybe, that's just an hypothesis, the `ZEsarUX.app` 8.1.1 emulator that
I'm using on the Macintosh, doesn't support "machine language" ...

This breakout game was running perfectly on my ZX81, in 1982. But it
doesn't seem to run on the emulator, about 40 years later. I don't
understand, because I verified the sources several times, cautiously.

Do you have a similar experience ?

Thanks a lot for your kind helping.

Best regards,

-- 
François LE COAT
Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)
http://eureka.atari.org/

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Breakout Game Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2020-05-01 23:22 +0200
  Re: Breakout Game Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2020-05-02 17:53 +0100
    Re: Breakout Game Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2020-05-02 21:01 +0200
      Re: Breakout Game Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2020-05-02 22:49 +0100
        Re: Breakout Game Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2020-05-05 00:10 +0200
          Re: Breakout Game Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org> - 2020-05-05 00:54 +0100
            Re: Breakout Game Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2020-05-05 11:33 +0200
            Re: Breakout Game Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2020-05-06 01:12 +0100
              Re: Breakout Game Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2020-05-06 17:40 +0200

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