In episode 11 of the Bally Alley Astrocast, Adam is joined by his 25-year-old son Dominic. Dominic discusses his memories of growing up with an Astrocade in the house in the late-to-mid-nineties and early 2000s. Adam and Dominic review the Bally BASIC/"AstroBASIC" game Hamurabi.
In this short episode, we decided not to cover any updates, as very few were made since our last recording.
Introduction Notes
Astrocade Multicart - Pictures of Ward Shrake's Astrocade multicart from the early 2000s.
Astrocast Multicart Title - 'Title Display' by Adam Trionfo. This homebrew ROM displays an Astrocade bitmap picture. This example displays an Astrocade Multicart title screen. (Nov. 30, 2003).
Astrocast Theme by Dominic Lowhar - This is an mp3 recording of the theme music for the Astrocast, a podcast for the Bally Arcade / Astrocade.
King Hamurabi by Richard Houser - "King Hamurabi," a Bally BASIC game appeared in Arcadian 2, no. 4 (Feb. 25, 1980): 32-33 and on the tape "Best of Arcadian - 1980." In this video, Dominic and I play a few games to help listeners of the Astrocast to better conceptualize how the game is played.
"Civilization" for the Atari ST (1993) - Richard Houser, who wrote the Astrocade version of "Hamurabi, used to sometimes play the Atari ST version of "Civilization" during the Atari User Group meetings in the mid-1990s. This is a video of this first version of the game.
"Hamurabi" Arcadian BASIC Program Submission - The original program submission letter for "Hamurabi" contains additional material not included anywhere else, including program subroutine breakdown and varaiables used,
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