MSX Computer Magazine Italia
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The MSX Basic programs and games were originally made available at:
https://www.edicola8bit.com/

All the programs were originally in italian.

Converted from cassette to ASCII and translated from italian to english by MarMSX.


Go Kart
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go_kart.bas - original game in italian.
gokart_e.bas - game translated to english and some code optimizations (with no changes) to reduce file size.
gokart_s.bas - game translated to english, code optimizations, bug fixes and new driving code (added more car sprites). 
kart.spr - sprite data used with gokart_e.bas and gokart_s.bas (this reduce code size).

How to play
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go_kart.bas and gokart_e.bas:

Press space bar to accelerate and use cursors keys to indicate the car direction. But, be careful, the game do not accept radical changes in direction. You can never change 90 degrees directly, but only 45 degrees in 45 degrees. For instance, if you are going to left, you cannot change direction directly to up or down. In order to achieve such positions, you must first change to left-up or left-down respectively. It takes a little bit to get accustomed with such type of control, but it is not a big deal to play with it.

gokart_s.bas:

In this version, I changed the driving controls to use UP arrow to accelerate and LEFT/RIGHT arrows to change car's direction. Thus, some extra sprites were added to make possible more car angles. Also, the fastest lap is registered and informed at the end of the race. Press space bar to go on.
