Source code to various Analog Magazine games.

I wanted to have a nice repo of the source to the games I poured over in the pages of ANALOG Magazine.

Most of the code here was found on KSquiggle’s Atari 8-bit Programming Shrine - Many thanks to Kevin Chase (https://ksquiggle.neocities.org)

Building with make

This repo now includes a Makefile that builds the supported standalone games with the MADS assembler (mads) and writes .xex files into build/.

Requirements:

• mads
• python3
• make

Build everything currently supported:

make

Clean the generated files:

make clean

The build uses tools/madsify.py to translate the older source dialect used by some of these listings into a form MADS can assemble. Generated .xex files are written to build/, and temporary translated sources are written to build/.mads-src/.

The current Makefile builds these games:

• Avalanche
• Battle in the B-Ring
• Bonk
• BOPOTRON
• Elevator Repairman
• Fill 'Er Up
• Fill 'Er Up II
• Harvey Wallbanger
• Livewire
• Planetary Defense
• Race in Space
• Speedski

Some other sources in the repo are not included in the Makefile yet because they either depend on missing include fragments or still need additional assembler-dialect cleanup before they can be built reliably with MADS.

• Avalanche, by Tommy Bennett, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #21 (August 1984)
• Bacterion!, by Kyle Peacock and Tom Hudson, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #20 (July 1984)
• Battle in the B-Ring, by Lew Thomits, Jr., from A.N.A.L.O.G. #19 (June 1984)
• Blast!, by Steven Grimm, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #44 (July 1986)
• Bonk, by James Hague, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #35 (October 1985)
• BOPOTRON by Kyle S. Peacock, from A.N.A.L.O.G.
• Cosmic Defender, by Phill Roey, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #32 (July 1985)
• Elevator Repairman, by Fred Caprilli, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #34 (September 1985)
• Fill ’Er Up, by Tom Hudson, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #10 (March 1983?)
• Fire Bug, by Kyle Peacock and Tom Hudson, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #23 (October 1984)
• Incoming! By Conrad Tatge, From A.N.A.L.O.G. #38 (January 1986)
• Livewire!, by Tom Hudson, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #12 (July 1983)
• Maze War, by Mark Price, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #36 (November 1985)
• Planetary Defense, by Charles Bachand and Tom Hudson, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #17 (March 1984)
• Race in Space, by Charles Bachand, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #24 (November 1984)
• Rocks!, by Douglas Engel, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #54 (May 1987)
• Roundup by Richard Loken, from A.N.A.L.O.G. #13 (September 1983)
• SHOOT, by John H. Palevich, from COMPUTE! #16 (September 1981)