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#atari

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Carlos Rodrigues 🪣

Arcade puzzle games are often overlooked, so here's "Klax" (1990) from Atari.

Colored blocks roll down a conveyor belt, and you must catch them and drop them in rows, columns, or diagonals. Levels have specific goals, like scoring a certain number of diagonals, or surviving a certain number of blocks.

It's a good game to emulate on mobile, while on a waiting room. Which I guess kind of says why we don't usually think about puzzle games in arcades...

Screen capture from Klax's attract sequence. A black screen with white text that says: "It is the nineties and there is time for..." "Add Coins to Start"
Another capture from Klax's attract sequence. It shows the Atari Games logo, and the word "Klax" where the "K" is a hand (that rotates and gets replaced by an actual "K" periodically).
The blocks are rolling down a conveyor belt from the distance. You have a paddle that can hold a certain number of blocks. When you drop a block from the paddle's stack, the top block drops first.
In this level, you have do do a certain number of "Klaxs" (rows, columns, diagonals of the same color) to complete the level. The "drop meter" says you can't fail to catch more than 3 blocks. Of course, as the level goes on, it becomes harder to catch them all, and that's how you lose.
#retrogaming#arcade#atari
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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄

Looking at the 10-liners that were entered, I am more convinced that

A) FastBasic is too modern , it's just an assembly loader. UGBasic seems OK?

B) I should be able to get my Atari PM sprite demo whipped into a game next year, it just takes some creative rewriting.

C) If nothing else, go back to my char graphics games, which are cheap but can be fun.

D) Snail Race may be the best game ever on C-64. Barcode Battle may be the best game ever on Spectrum.

#retrocomputing#basic#atari
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Laurent FRANCOISE

J'ai réparé mon imprimante matricielle ! 🎉
C'est une Star LC-10, elle imprimait un début de ligne et le chariot se bloquait avant que l'imprimante ne se mette en erreur.
J'ai vérifié l'alimentation, la commande du moteur du chariot, RAS.
Au final c'était un problème mécanique, j'ai graissé les éléments mobiles du chariot et j'ai fait tourner le ruban encreur dans sa cartouche avec une visseuse électrique, et ça m'a l'air bon maintenant !
Testé avec mon #Atari Mega STE et le traitement de texte Papyrus (et pas la bonne fonte!)
#dotmatrix #printer #retrocomputing

Une imprimante matricielle Star LC-10 sans son capot, on voit l'alimentation et le PCB principal, ainsi que le chariot horizontal avec la cartouche contenant le ruban encreur. Il y a une feuille A4 imprimée avec un dessin d'une feuille de papyrus et le mot Papyrus en dessous
Un Atari Mega STE avec un écran monochrome et le traitement de texte Papyrus
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