Byte Power September 1986

Aliens

Pilot a lone spaceship over a jagged alien landscape and blast ground-based enemies in this horizontally scrolling shoot-'em-up from Canadian tape magazine Byte Power.

Astro

Biorythm

A three-cycle biorhythm plotter that uses pre-computed DATA tables and a custom UDG marker to draw your physical, emotional, and intellectual curves for any target month.

Buster

Character Set Definer

Color-Pad

Construx

Explosion Sound Example

A compact looping tone built from a single SOUND statement hammering seven AY-3-8910 registers at once — hear what envelope shape 8 actually sounds like.

Helicopter 1 Sound Example

A compact three-line loop drives the TS2068's AY sound chip through multiple registers simultaneously to recreate the thrum of a helicopter rotor.

Helicopter 2 Sound Example

A compact looping sound effect that programs the AY-3-8910 chip's registers directly to produce a repeating helicopter-like audio pattern.

Helicopter 3 Sound Example

A compact three-line AY chip sound demo programs the envelope, noise, and mixer registers to recreate a helicopter sound effect.

OUAH! Sound Example

A Byte Power demo fires up the AY sound chip with a single SOUND statement, then silences it on a keypress — minimal code, maximum bark.

Phone Book

A tape-based phone book that packs 250 contacts into a fixed-width string array and saves entry counts to a clever two-byte machine address on tape.

Small Screen Painter

Special Sound

A tight three-voice AY chip sweep that drives harmonically spaced pitches across all tone channels before silencing itself and looping forever.

The Day You Were Born

A BASIC program uses Zeller's congruence and a computed GO TO trick across 1,300+ line numbers to find your birthday and star sign instantly.

Tune Box