> On Jan 28, 2026, at 4:15 PM, David Plass <[email protected]> wrote: > > In advance of the anticipated 2026 BASIC 10-liner contest > <https://bunsen.itch.io/>, I've written a 1-D "pellet gobbler game" for the > Tandy 100/200, in just 10 lines of 80 characters. It was inspired by Pac Line > <https://sizescape.itch.io/pac-line>, itself an excellent 1-D implementation > of the original 2-D game.
Thanks for doing this, David. I pasted it into CloudT and it's a ton of fun for such a simple concept. The subtlety of Pac moving more slowly when chomping is a cool detail. > 0DEFINTB-Z Curiosity from an inexpert M100 BASIC user: aren't INTs *slower* when used this way, compared to the implicit type? I don't know where I picked up that wisdom or if I'm misremembering it from the C64 or something, but if it's correct you've just saved a few bytes for the comment. :)
