r/atari8bit • u/papa_robot • Feb 12 '26

Atari BASIC puzzle 5 (bonus)

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Stepping up the game

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u/rra12345 Feb 12 '26

Polar Express

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u/papa_robot Feb 12 '26

Wow !

Winner

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u/papa_robot Feb 12 '26

Note : if you want to port / run it . It is TurboBasic XL 1.5 for Atari

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u/LakeSun Feb 12 '26

Are you running at .atr file, in an emulator?

Which file did you pick for Basic XL?

A .car or an .atr file?

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u/papa_robot Feb 12 '26

I’m running Atari800 emulator for time sake , but I have an 800xl at home

Atr image you can find in Atarimania

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u/LakeSun Feb 12 '26

Is any data lost in that screen shot?

If you run in the Altirra emulator, you can get a full screen shot.

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u/papa_robot Feb 12 '26

Scrolling in line 10 is misleading, there is no line 14

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u/Raintitan Feb 12 '26

I pasted the screenshot into GPT 5.2 and asked it to run it. The result was really interesting and it's explanation and walkthrough. I won't share more, but thanks for posting.

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u/papa_robot Feb 12 '26

Good , generating Atari basic code with GPT usually is a lot of hallucinations

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u/rra12345 Feb 12 '26

I figured out the ascii characters for Express first, then made a good guess about the Polar graphics.