Looking for Basic Source Code (any)

Games for Spectrum, C64, Amstrad, Amiga, Apple ][ and the rest of the 8-bit and 16-bit platforms. Pleas for help, puzzles, bug reports etc.

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Looking for Basic Source Code (any)

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I'm looking for Text adventure Basic source code to port to TRS-80 MC-10. Preferably obscure or buggy or broken games.

Any suggestions or links would be much appreciated.
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Using CASA you can search for titles that are written in BASIC, and on a game's entry page there are often links to places where you can download the game.

Under the main site's "Games..." menu choose "Browse by system" then from the new page select "BASIC" to show all of the games in the database that are currently listed as being written in BASIC.

An even better approach may be to use the "Advanced search" page, again found under the "Games..." menu, to narrow the selection further. For example you could select BASIC games written in English only, or narrow it further by also specifying a computer platform.
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Thanks Alastair. I have done that already, and found some interesting games. For example, the ones for the VZ-200 are fairly easy to port to the TRS-80 MC-10. However, I should have made my request a little clearer (I think I was being rushed by one of my kids at the time and ended up just hitting ENTER). I'd really like port some code for games that don't already have a working "home" as were. That is to say, I'm looking for possible source code listings that are for systems for which there might not be any functioning emulators (or perhaps any good emulator), so they are effectively "orphaned" i.e. unusable. Or I am looking for games (and source) that might have bugs so they cannot be won (or specific problems people would like to see fixed. Or perhaps games that exist only as PDF scans, with no functioning digital copies for their intended system. In brief, games that if I could get them working, people might appreciate being able to have a way to play them (the VMC-10 Emulator is a very reliable and friendly Emulator).

In regard to those ends, do you know if there are any tricks to searching CASA that might throw up broken or "orphaned" games?
Alastair wrote:Using CASA you can search for titles that are written in BASIC, and on a game's entry page there are often links to places where you can download the game.

Under the main site's "Games..." menu choose "Browse by system" then from the new page select "BASIC" to show all of the games in the database that are currently listed as being written in BASIC.
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#4 Post by Alastair »

Right, I think I understand better now!

World of Spectrum, see links below, contains PDFs and page scans of many publications, some of which contain type-in adventures (and not necessarily for the Spectrum). The difficulty lies both in finding those listings and then sorting out those that fulfil your criteria. CASA can help in part with the former by using the advanced search and choosing "Type-in" for the "Genre", though it should go without saying that CASA does not as yet have a complete catalogue of all type-in adventures, but I do not know of any labour saving method for the second part.

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/books.html
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/ (FTP of the above page)
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/
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