Pac moving slower when chomping isn't a feature...I'll have to take a look...
And ints are supposed to be 30-50% faster than floats in Tandy basic. On Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 9:48 PM Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. :) >
