Jaywalking Chicken (TI 99/4a) by Carlos Santiago
A downloadable game
10-Liner Contest
Title: Jaywalking Chicken
System TI-99/4A Extended BASIC
Author:Carlos Santiago, Feb 2023
Gameplay instructions:
- Chicken will start moving forward automatically across the road from the bottom to the top
- Stop the chicken by pressing and holding the space bar
- Release the space bar to let the chicken continue moving forward
- Don't hit the cars; hitting any car will send your chicken back a few steps
- Cars reset and speed up randomly every time the chicken reaches the top
- SC is the score (number of times chicken has crossed the road)
- HITS keeps track of how many times a car has hit the chicken
- Try to cross 10 times with as fewer hits as possible
- Game will freeze after crossing 10 times. The final number of hits will remain on screen
- Press ALT-4 during gameplay to stop the game and RUN to retry
Can the chicken cross the road 10 times and remain harmless?
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Carlos Santiago
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Install instructions
-Download and Install Classic 99 Emulator -> http://harmlesslion.com/software/classic99/
- When you open the emulator for the first time select Cartridge -> Apps -> Extended BASIC and confirm restart
- Press any key on the TI-99 splash screen then select 2-Extended BASIC
- Go to the text file with the source code (JAYCHICKEN.TXT) and Select All-> Copy, go to Classic 99 and select Edit Paste XB
- list the program using LIST
- run the program using RUN
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