Steve Walters

     Download digitally archived Bally Arcade tape programs that will load with AstroBASIC (the BASIC with the built-in tape-interface).

Program Name Source Comments
Avalanche! Tape 821 (April 1982) 1-4 players drop blocks through a system of levers. Depending on the positions of the levers, the blocks will either get stuck or fall to the bottom. After a set number of turns, the player who let the fewest number of blocks fall to the bottom wins. This program is very similar to Hang Up!
Crazyface Crazyface Tape 1 Create a "crazy face" using various menu selections.
Halloween Graphics Arcadian, Vol. 3. Pg. 126-127 (Program Listing), Arcadian, Vol. 4. Pg. 3 (Loading Method) Taping instructions (Arcadian, Vol. 4. Pg. 3) for Bally BASIC only.
Hang Up! Unknown (From the tape collection of Dave Ibach) 2-4 players drop blocks through a system of levers. Depending on the positions of the levers, the blocks will either get stuck or fall to the bottom. Each player begins with a limited supply of blocks. A player loses a block by dropping it during a turn, and gains any blocks that fall to the bottom. The first player to run out of blocks wins. This program is very similar to Avalanche!
Memory Maze Tape [Early Eighties] This AstroBASIC game has been converted from the original Bally BASIC 300-Baud format to 2000-Baud. It now loads in about twenty seconds rather than three and a half minutes. This game took some work to get to run under Astrocade. See the notes included in the archive if you're interested in what they were.

AstroBASIC runs faster than Bally BASIC. In this case the drawing of the maze has been given a speed boost. The maze now draws about twice as fast. This is a much-needed improvement because the maze is redrawn whenever the player "peeks" at it. While it isn't unusual to see performance increases with AstroBASIC, this boost seems to work particularly well.
Pepsi TV Game Pepsi TV Game Tape [Early Eighties] This program doesn't seem to be referenced anywhere. Maybe it's an Arcadian submission that wasn't printed. It seems to be a tool for keeping track of bottle cap numbers for a contest Pepsi was running. You can even save your data to tape. Of course, this isn't particularly useful anymore.