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I have fixed the timing issue in the code and put an updated xex here:

https://ec.tnfs.io/atari/minigolf.xex

If anyone is curious, the updated code conforms to 10x120 constraint of the contest.

All - please run your emulator in PAL mode when playing.

Due to a timing bug, in NTSC the game is not waiting long enough to check collisions and lets you win each hole when the ball gets near the top of the screen.

I think I rushed this game too close to the deadline :)

Great game! Very challenging, I managed to reach 40

Very cool concept! I made it to level 8

Great game! Love the animations and sound effects

Landed with 37 fuel! Hard but fun game!

Fun game and cool concept!

Fun game! After many crashes, I did manage to get one passenger!

Very colorful and nice sound effects!

Great animation and ASCII art!

Impressive!!

Did you hold down Option when booting, and are you saying it will not load? What version of Atari do you have?

Nice and colorful, impressive for PUR-80

Very nice, feels very close to the Win 3.1 original

Fun game, and nice colorful graphics!

Wow, a complete game in 10x10! Very clever using the atascii order of <=> for the responses.

Nicely done, and fitting the logic into 80 chars! 

I imagine with the extra space of 256 chars you could probably extend this into a mini rogue style game!

Very nice graphics/animatinos and gameplay!

Thanks. It was a lot of trial and error :)

Hi Titania, nice to meet you. That is awesome - thank you! You can contact me at eric.carr@gmail.com - I will remove my email once you reply

Nicely done! Love the different colors for spider/web and the frog peeking out of the water before jumping.

Very nice. Great use of multiple player missile graphics!

Great graphics and challenge. Love the end of round animations. Very fun!

Nice job getting the gravity and feel of Flappy in 10 lines of C64 basic!

This one is a lot of fun, and an interesting idea! Nicely done!

Impressive! I was wondering when I saw the screen mode of your earlier entry, if you would attempt one in GTIA modes. Looks great!

Very nice! Growing up as a child, I had a board game like this, called “Chutes and Ladders.” It brings back those memories :)

Yes, Atari does have a nice feature in this way! I wish you a good challenge as well, see you :)

Very fun! I like the changing speed and wind that add to the challenge.

No, it is replacing the stock with custom characters. It works the same for C64 and Atari:

1. Put your custom charset bytes (8 bytes per char) somewhere in RAM. The traditional slow way is a bunch of data statements and a loop to POKE to some location.

2. Tell computer the new charset location

For step 1 here, I save space and time by positioning the actual string at a spot in memory that I tell the computer the charset is located. I fill the string with special chars to represent each of the 8 bytes per custom char. Therefore no DATA, looping, POKEing required.

This works in Atari since a string can be thousands of bytes long, unlike C64 which must be 255 or less. I create a dummy string that takes up useless ram but positions the very next string right where I need it. This was a typical Atari BASIC trick from back in the day.

Thank you!  I found someone doing a similar trick on c64 to put PETSCII chars in a string, and pointed the charset to the start of the program, though there may be a limit on which values can be encoded like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/1214xwo/10print_with_custom_characters_and... 

Thank you! Yes, the custom charset is set into B$ in lines 2 and 3.  It's a pretty standard way of setting them using one character per byte instead of a list of numbers in a DATA statement, which consume much more code.

See below:

Nicely done! Love the colors!

Jumpman.atr has both ntsc and pal executebles

This is really cool, love the manual, and a fun game! Great job!

I see you used comments to pack in level and character data at the end of each line. Did you PEEK some memory location to read the comment token bytes in memory or is that an alternate way to have data in MSX Basic?

This was a lot of fun to play, nicely done!