Things will really start buzzing with this unusual game by Andy Clarke that could prove sticky.
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Things will really start buzzing with this unusual game by Andy Clarke that could prove sticky
What has six hairy legs, bulging eyes and dubious tastes in eating? You do, if you happen to have Buzzer 64 loaded up. For the Commodore 64, this game casts you as a fly in search of jam jars and sugar bowls.
It is played with with a joystick in port one or with the following keys:
Ctrl - left, 2 - right, 1 - up, Left arrow - down, Space - fire or swoop
You move around the screen avoiding the fly paper and the spray cans. If you're directly above a sugar bowl or jam jar (it doesn't matter how high) pressing fire allows you to swoop and score 100 points. Don't land or you'll lose a life.
You should also beware of the wasp, which tracks you remorselessly. You can outfly it, but it needs some skill. You're only safe at the bottom of the screen, but you need to come up to score.
When all your lives are gone you'll be given your score and the option to play again.
Program Notes
1
Reads in sprite data. Gosub titles
2-3
Set sprite pointers
4-6
Set up the main variables
8
Checks if out of lives before starting
10
Clears screen and sets other variables
12-13
Print 'Score' and 'Lives' on screen
14-34
Set up the sprites for the game - colour, etc
50
Gets joystick input. If it is null then make the Buzzer flap wings so as to appear to hover
52
Comes here if joystick isn't null
58-64
Increase values of fly spray coordinates
70-72
Print Score and Lives only if they have changed - saves time
74
Checks if out of lives during game
76
Checks if Buzzer hits another sprite
80-84
Poke values into sprites and also into sound channels and fly paper colours
200-234
Title screen
500-518
Joystick routine. Move Buzzer by increasing/decreasing X or Y values and also check them to make sure they don't exceed screen limits
550-558
Swoop routine. Check if he hits a jam jar or sugar bowl
600-606
Choose either jam jar or sugar bowl and place at foot or screen in a randomly chosen place
700-762
Sound routines
800-820
End of game
3000-30079
Sprite data. Each separate sprite is marked. Four Buzzers are used.
2nd March 1985