Thrust in Javascript (or just about)
I’ve always got one beady eye on Chrome Experiments, Google’s page for cool stuff built with new web tech. JavaScript isn’t exactly your new kid on the block – but how about when you’re using it to build a remake of BBC Micro B beauty Thrust? It’s the handiwork of Jon Combe, and it’ll flood the memory arteries of anyone who smashed up their Beeb after repeatedly catapulting their craft nose-first into a wall. In Thrust, you fought the law of gravity – and the law won. Again, and again, and again.
Jon’s used a smidgen of Flash to get the sound working, but only Steve Jobs is likely to get upset about that. Head straight to the Chrome Experiments page for Thrust – and have a giggle at the poor mites moaning that the controls are rubbish and it’s all too difficult. Welcome to 1986, kids!
August 9, 2010
One response to Thrust in Javascript (or just about)
Thank you very much for the complimentary write-up, Mark, I really appreciate it. I’m glad I’m not the only who found myself furious at my Beeb after playing Thrust.
Your last sentence is spot on. I haven’t know whether to laugh or cry at the comments on ChromeExperiments (and Reddit before it); if only these people knew how hard the original game was!