D-Man

Well, we played my game at Christmas and all my grandchildren loved it!  We all had a lot of fun.  Thanks for all the help! Now I'm going to try and expand it and make it better for our next gathering! Thanks again.
Dennis

Here's what I ended up doing.  It does work it just counts up instead of down.  On line 15 how can I make it so the number is a random number between 1 and 800 instead of always being 800?
10 GRAPHICS 2
15 FOR I=1 TO 800:NEXT I
30 FOR X=1 TO 1000
32 POSITION 9,5
35 PRINT #6;X
40 NEXT X

I was teaching school when the Atari 800 came out.  I wrote a simple program (game) for my students to play.  Here it is:  The screen read On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!  Then it would start counting from 1000 to 0.  I would pick a number, say 73, and they would type run and then hit ESC to try to stop it on 73.  Whoever came the closest won a prize!
I have that program on an Atari floppy disk but no disk drive.  Could someone type that program for me so I can play it on Christmas when the grandkids come over.  I think it is only a few lines of typing in Graphics 2.  I do have the Atari 800 computer so I'll be able to type it in if somebody answers this.  Thanks in advance.
D-Man

Thank you Rick. I was thinking you, or someone, could just type it on this post and then I would write it down.  I don't think it's very long...if my memory is corrct. LOL  Or you could email it to me.  Whatever works best for you.

OK, thanks!

Wow thanks! I'll give it a try right now.  I'll let you know;

I tried it but it doesn't count down to 0.  It looks like it counting down 1000 to 0, then 900 to 0, then 800 to 0 and so on, but it goes so fast it's really hard to tell.  Also, how do I get it into Graphics 2.  Is it PRINT #6?

Here's what I ended up doing.  It does work it just counts up instead of down.  On line 15 how can I make it so the number is a random number between 1 and 800 instead of always being 800?
10 GRAPHICS 2
15 FOR I=1 TO 800:NEXT I
30 FOR X=1 TO 1000
32 POSITION 9,5
35 PRINT #6;X
40 NEXT X

OK, thanks!

Thank you Rick. I was thinking you, or someone, could just type it on this post and then I would write it down.  I don't think it's very long...if my memory is corrct. LOL  Or you could email it to me.  Whatever works best for you.

I was teaching school when the Atari 800 came out.  I wrote a simple program (game) for my students to play.  Here it is:  The screen read On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!  Then it would start counting from 1000 to 0.  I would pick a number, say 73, and they would type run and then hit ESC to try to stop it on 73.  Whoever came the closest won a prize!
I have that program on an Atari floppy disk but no disk drive.  Could someone type that program for me so I can play it on Christmas when the grandkids come over.  I think it is only a few lines of typing in Graphics 2.  I do have the Atari 800 computer so I'll be able to type it in if somebody answers this.  Thanks in advance.
D-Man

I was teaching school when the Atari 800 came out.  I wrote a simple program (game) for my students to play.  Here it is:  The screen read On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!  Then it would start counting from 1000 to 0.  I would pick a number, say 73, and they would type run and then hit ESC to try to stop it on 73.  Whoever came the closest won a prize!
I have that program on an Atari floppy disk but no disk drive.  Could someone type that program for me so I can play it on Christmas when the grandkids come over.  I think it is only a few lines of typing in Graphics 2.  I do have the Atari 800 computer so I'll be able to type it in if somebody answers this.  Thanks in advance.
D-Man