Joystick Painter v1.2

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In an attempt to finally learn Atari Basic, I've created a tiny joystick painting program to teach myself about graphics and joystick control. (though I do confess to stealing that elegant joystick detection bit) The stick draws, button changes color, and space bar erases the scene. Kind of like a 3-color etch-a-sketch.

I'm on day 4 of learning Basic. My fancy Basic game design books haven't arrived yet, so right now it's just me and the old Basic Reference Manual. I keep thinking of new upgrades for this program like keypresses to set colors and Touch Tablet support, but they'd overly complicate a simple one-screen program.

A compiled disk image (with source) can be obtained here: http://ge.tt/6Fc1TXN1/v/0?c







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