ugBASIC port of the Quick Basic version (angela4.bas) by Claudio Larini of Angela Game, the well-known computer game originally coded for the Olivetti Programma 101.
New York, 1965. At the B.E.M.A. (Business Equipment Manufacturers Association), visitors’ attention is drawn to a small machine exhibited at the Olivetti booth. It is the Programma 101, also known as the P101 or Perottina: the first desktop computer in history. Among the demonstration programs shown to the amazed audience, a game could not be missing: Angela Game.
The rules are simple, but winning isn't easy at all:
- You set a number to reach (target)
- You choose a number from 1 to 6 (only the first time, you can choose 0 if you want the computer to play first)
- The computer does the same
- The chosen numbers are added together, contributing to the progress towards the target
- You cannot play the same number as your opponent nor its complement to 7 (e.g. 1/6, 2/5, 3/4)
- The winner is the player that exactly reaches the target, or forces the opponent to exceed it
Inspired by the Applesoft Basic port, I ported the QuickBasic version of Angela Game by Claudio Larini to ugBASIC, thus making it available for many 8-bit homecomputers from the '80s. Two versions are available:
- angela_ug_en.bas: simple console I/O, compatible with a greater number of target machines;
- angela_ug_V2.bas: enhanced version with better UI and the possibility to display the simulated P101 registers.
From the project page on itch.io, you can download the versions for all supported computers: Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Atari 8 bit, Commodore 64, TRS-80 CoCo 3, Olivetti Prodest PC 128, Thomson MO6.
