BACKTRACK

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BACKTRACK (BACKTRACK.ACT) is an ATARI 8-bit game written in ACTION! by Sam Teague. It uses the joystick, redefined character sets, player/missile graphics, sound, three-frame-animation, multiple screens, and more.

The source code can be found on the atariwiki.org website. I copied the source code and pasted it into an Altirra session running the ACTION! cartridge. 

There is also an atarimania page. And an archives.org page.

As the source code on the atariwiki.org web site doesn't have any special ATARI ATASCII characters displayed, I'm not 100% sure that the code was correct. That being said, I was able to get it entered, saved, compiled, and executing.

The program is too large to compile in memory, so I saved it to disk, rebooted, than compiled it from disk and ran it.

To compile the program from disk, boot the disk image with the ACTION! cartridge installed. Go to the Monitor (<CTRL><SHIFT> M). Then 

C "D1:BACKTRAK.ACT"

It takes about 20 seconds or so to compile. Once the program successfully compiles, execute the program with the ACTION! Monitor R command.


If anyone knows the original source of this source code, please let me know.

In the video below, skip ahead to about 1:19 to see the game screen executing.


Note that I found a working executable. The code as listed on the atariwiki website doesn't work correctly likely due to ATASCII not displaying correctly.





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