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Breakout for Microbee - brizza - 18-09-2026
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.
RE: Breakout for Microbee - Graham72 - 18-09-2026
(18-09-2026, 06:06 PM)brizza Wrote: 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?
RE: Breakout for Microbee - Robert - 18-09-2026
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.
RE: Breakout for Microbee - ChickenMan - 20-09-2026
Check out Brick Ball on arcade_2_ss80.dsk and there is a colour version also, Lastball on the same disk.
RE: Breakout for Microbee - brizza - 25-09-2026
(20-09-2026, 12:15 AM)ChickenMan Wrote: 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.