Interplanetary Trash Collector

This appeared in the October 1992 issue of The Rainbow. It had the largest gestation period of any of these programs. Originally inspired by an exercise that came in the BASIC manual that had you navigate an asteroid belt on the low resolution screen. Taking inspiration from that and Surround and Tron Light Cycles, I worked on making a one player version of that. Once we got a Color Computer 3, I was able to change the palette of the PMODE 3 screen to make it look like outer space. You start in ...