Slide
Publisher: CodeWorks - CursorGenre: Catch it
Programmer: Kevin Pickell
Year: 1982
Language: English
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The keyboard graphic responds to mouse clicks, touch events, and key presses.
Hold your shift key while clicking the PET keyboard to get the graphics
characters.
(The emulator simulates pressing the PET's left shift-key at the
same time as the clicked key.)
Changing the size of memory or changing the ROM version forces a reset of the PET.
The emulator has an IEEE-488 device at address 8. It can be used load and save (.prg) files.
Some programs don't run on ROM1 and some require more memory than the default 8K.
Game Notes
May include inaccurate AI generated content
"Slide" is a game written by Kevin Pickell and published by CodeWorks - Cursor, a company known for developing software for the Commodore PET. The game was released during the late 1970s or early 1980s, a period when the Commodore PET was a popular personal computer for both educational and home use. CodeWorks - Cursor was one of the notable developers creating games and utilities for this platform.
The gameplay of "Slide" involves navigating a character through a maze or grid-based environment, with the objective likely centered around solving puzzles or reaching a goal. While specific details about the mechanics or storyline are scarce, it is consistent with the style of early text-based or simple graphical games typical of the Commodore PET era. The game would have been distributed on cassette tapes or floppy disks, common storage mediums for software at the time.
Kevin Pickell and CodeWorks - Cursor contributed to the growing library of software for the Commodore PET, which helped establish the platform as a viable option for gaming and productivity. "Slide" is one of the lesser-known titles from this era, but it represents the creativity and innovation of early computer game developers working within the technical limitations of the time. Documentation or preserved copies of the game may exist in retro computing communities or archives dedicated to preserving Commodore PET software.
The gameplay of "Slide" involves navigating a character through a maze or grid-based environment, with the objective likely centered around solving puzzles or reaching a goal. While specific details about the mechanics or storyline are scarce, it is consistent with the style of early text-based or simple graphical games typical of the Commodore PET era. The game would have been distributed on cassette tapes or floppy disks, common storage mediums for software at the time.
Kevin Pickell and CodeWorks - Cursor contributed to the growing library of software for the Commodore PET, which helped establish the platform as a viable option for gaming and productivity. "Slide" is one of the lesser-known titles from this era, but it represents the creativity and innovation of early computer game developers working within the technical limitations of the time. Documentation or preserved copies of the game may exist in retro computing communities or archives dedicated to preserving Commodore PET software.
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