CATCH THE BALL!

Atari 2600 Game

Kady Rosier
Jenelle Walker
Hitomi Kayama

This is the Atari game we created using Batari BASIC. In this game, the player is the puppy and must run around the park to catch the balls that are thrown randomly from one of the corners of the park, while avoiding the dog catcher that closely follows the puppy.

Here is the zipped folder that contains the Design Document, the meeting schedule, and the source code for our game. Our statements are on each of our own Project 8 pages. We hope you enjoy the game! :)

Hitomi's Statement
Kady's Statement
Jenelle's Statement

HOW TO PLAY

Move around using the arrow keys. You can move up, down, left, and right as well as diagonally by pressing two arrow keys at once. You will start out with 1000 points in the beginning, and your score will rise by 100 points if you successfully catch the ball. But be careful; every step you take is a 1 point deduction from your score! The game will end when your score reaches 0 or if you get caught by the dog catcher.

Just so I don't forget how to install and run the Atari stuff... here's the step-by-step directions on how to do this.

  1. Download and extract all the files from here. It's the one that's named DOS/Windows .Zip. Preferably, you should save this folder on your Desktop because I was having problems making this stuff work on mine until I saved it on my Desktop.
  2. Download and extract the 2600IDE into the Batari folder from the same site. Or, you can get my Batari folder that already contains the stuff from steps 1 and 2 here.
  3. Get Stella from this site (go to Downloads > Stable Releases > stella-2.0.1-win32.exe: "Binary installer (exe) for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP") or get it here! Create a Stella shortcut and put it in the Batari folder for convenience.
  4. Go into DOS (Start > Run... > cmd) and type "cd " + the path to the directory in which you saved the Batari folder. Then, type "2600bas.bat sample.bas" to test-compile the sample code given in the Batari folder. If it compiles, you can go into Stella and choose the path and click on "sample.bas.bin" and play!
  5. Now, you can open the sample.bas file with Notepad or something and edit it, or open a new Notepad and name it with the extension .bas. Create your own Atari games and compile them and play them through Stella!

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