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Creative Computing's BASIC Games Disks 1 & 2 for the Microbee - ChickenMan - 29-07-2022
This is a collection of BASIC games from the early days of hobby computing and the famed 'Creative Computing' magazine that was found on the internet. The games are now on 2 x SS80 Microbee disks that autoboot to a Menu for easy game selection.
The games are text-only (no graphics!) and include many classic BASIC games of the era. The games will run from Microsoft MBASIC and are setup for an ADM-3a terminal such as the Microbee and Kaypro.
From one of the read.me docs :-
The programs were found scattered among several CP/M software archives and appear to have been part of a disk-based collection of BASIC games published by Creative Computing in about 1982. Originally supplied in tokenized MBASIC form, each game has been converted to pure ASCII to allow its use by most Microsoft Basic interpreters. Organized as a two-disk collection, a loader program MENU.BAS is used to access all games on each disk, where you need to use UPPER case.
Not all games were test run but there were no problems with the ones tried. Being written in 1982, many could use an upgrade to their screen layout a bit better, so there lies a challenge.
So in the MBeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Games folder we placed
creative_computing_games_disk1_ss80.dsk
creative_computing_games_disk2_ss80.dsk