Breakout for Microbee

[brizza]

Is there a Breakout game for the Microbee? That is the old brick and ball game. Toying with the idea of building a paddle controller and game to suit.

[Graham72]

Is there a Breakout game for the Microbee? That is the old brick and ball game. Toying with the idea of building a paddle controller and game to suit.

colour version would be awesome, but please allow , . direction keys some of us only have keyboards. How easy is it to buy USB joysticks?

[Robert]

I'm pretty sure that there's a number of breakout / arkanoid games for the microbee, Chicken Man should be able to give details.

Some are written in basic, and these generally have unsatisfactory performance. A machine-language colour version would be much better.

[ChickenMan]

Check out Brick Ball on arcade_2_ss80.dsk and there is a colour version also, Lastball on the same disk.

[brizza]

Check out Brick Ball on arcade_2_ss80.dsk and there is a colour version also, Lastball on the same disk.

Thanks Chickenman ! Lastball works pretty well. Almost no reason to have a paddle controller :-) But i'm going ahead and working with AI to design and build one. AI has come up with a design using an ATTiny85 and quick work with Easyeda have come up with a circuit board. will be interesting to see how it works out.

[brizza]

Is there a Breakout game for the Microbee? That is the old brick and ball game. Toying with the idea of building a paddle controller and game to suit.

colour version would be awesome, but please allow , . direction keys some of us only have keyboards. How easy is it to buy USB joysticks?

Here's a paddle game that will work with the design. It has ,. and space for keyboard control also. works pretty well in vibedrone apart from a faint clicking sound coming from keypresses but its the same on real hardware.
Once the pcbs arrive i'll post in the hardware section.

replaced paddle game with an updated version  2

[Graham72]

Ctrl 9 in Shell, K L 0 should stop the clicking. I'll check it tomorrow. I'm thinking of doing that macro automatically when Shell loads.