Bowling

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Coming soon!

Meanwhile here are 4 Turkeys for your edification!

 

Well this is more like B+ bowling:
 

 

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I just read in the paper today, they are closing the place where I started bowling back in HS.

So in memory of those times is this bowling game. I included the last revised SmallBASIC file to show what it was translated from, you might be curious about another Basic.

Many thanks to Johnno for the years of our cooperative efforts.

[OldMoses]

Our bowling alley has been out of business for some years. This is a nice substitute.

[johnno56]

I thought it looked familiar... Bowl on! lol

The "LINE (0,0)-(xmax, ytopsheet)" on line#90 is a little over zealous and 'crops' the top of the scoresheet. I changed mine to 'ytopsheet - 5' to fix. Other than that, a great conversion effort!!

J

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Our bowling alley has been out of business for some years. This is a nice substitute.

Yeah no heavy lifting, no squinting to aim, no sore thumbs, but dang, no HS babes.

You win some and you lose some... :)

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I thought it looked familiar... Bowl on! lol

Yes, feeling both nostalgic and thankful today.

[SierraKen]

Wow this looks pretty cool. :)

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The "LINE (0,0)-(xmax, ytopsheet)" on line#90 is a little over zealous and 'crops' the top of the scoresheet. I changed mine to 'ytopsheet - 5' to fix. Other than that, a great conversion effort!!

On my system line 67 fixed that very problem!

But good to know everything is loading and playing OK (almost) on Linux.

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Ready for Akron!
 

https://www.midwestbowling.com/upcoming-tournaments

oh wait...

[johnno56]

:P  lol

I would be curious to know how to apply spin... I have seen old dos games that, not only line up the player, but select up to 3 different degrees of hook... (both directions. Left or right)  Any ideas on the physics?

[johnno56]

Shuffleboard? Nostalgia enough for ya?  lol

[OldMoses]

Yeah no heavy lifting, no squinting to aim, no sore thumbs, but dang, no HS babes.

You win some and you lose some... :)

You know, QB64 has a _PUTIMAGE command that could address that deficiency. ;)

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Shuffleboard? Nostalgia enough for ya?  lol

You know I was thinking about that last night, right around the same time at SB as I recall.

I would be curious to know how to apply spin... I have seen old dos games that, not only line up the player, but select up to 3 different degrees of hook... (both directions. Left or right)  Any ideas on the physics?

I was thinking about that last night too, that is a great idea. Terry Ritchie left us a Physics Engine with a ton of properties for an object (ball?) that looked good for pool, maybe could practice with bowling first. I've had it on the back burner since he was here a year plus ago.

You know, QB64 has a _PUTIMAGE command that could address that deficiency. ;)

@OldMoses Oh man! if we had a _PUTIMAGINATION command! ;-))

[SierraKen]

I just played this for the first time and DANG I am IMPRESSED! The physics are perfect. I just scored a 174 on my first game. This rocks!

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I just played this for the first time and DANG I am IMPRESSED! The physics are perfect. I just scored a 174 on my first game. This rocks!

Glad you like it! Wait until you find the sweet spots, the first and main one I found was a line for a Brooklyn strike.

BROOKLYN. Refers to a ball that crosses over to the other side of the head pin opposite the side it was thrown (i.e. a Brooklyn strike hit the 1-2 pocket for a right-hander).