Atari Games and Recreations.pdf

ATARI®

Games and

Recreations

Herb Kohl

Ted Kahn

Len Lindsay

with Pat Cleland

Illustrated by Steve Oliff

Reston Publishing Company , Inc.

A Prentice-Hall Company

Reston, Virginia

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Kohl, Herbert R.

Atari games and recreations.

In cludes index.

1. Video games-Data processing. 2. Atari

computer -Data processing. 3. Basic (Computer

program language) I. Kahn, Ted M.

II. Lindsay, Len. III. Title.

GV1469.3.K63

794

82·7629

ISBN 0·8359·0298·6

AACR2

ISBN 0·8359-0242-0 (pbk.)

ATARI is a registered trademark of Atar i, In c. (a Warner Communications

Company), used by permission.

A Prentice-Hall Company

Reston, Virginia 22090

A /I rights reserved. No part ofthis book

may be reproduced, in any way or by any means,

without permission in writing from the publisher.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

Printed in the United States of America

Contents

PART I

LEARNING ABOUT THE ATARI HOME COMPUTERS

THROUGH GAMES 1

Communicating With Your Computer 3

Making Mistak es and Correcting Them, 13

The Elusi ve and Po werful RND(l) , 22

Using RND(l): Some Loops and a Branch Will Make a Game, 26

The Gam e at Last: Guess a Number, 33

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Theme and Variations: An Introduction to the Fine Art of

"Dressing Up" 37

The Tortoise and the Hare at Last-Almost! 47

The Rac e: Versions " 2, and 3, 50

Dressing Up Game Progr ams, 64

Getting More Complex, 72

Chapter 3

Drill and Basic Skills 77

Numb er Facts, 78

Spelling Drill and a Little Grammar : Using 'String Variables,' 94

BASIC Vocabulary Introduced in Part 1, 104

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