The Missing Link is, in my opinion, the best extension to be written for STOS. It covers a lot of areas of STOS programming including a set of extra commands plus better faster versions of old ones. In this tutorial, I shall take you step by step through the commands explaining in detail how to […]

Sprites are the little graphical images that move about on-screen such as ships, aliens, bullets, little men, etc. Let’s look at how we can do this. THE SPRITE COMMAND Before you can use the sprite command you will need some sprites in memory. For example, try loading the animals1.mbk sprite bank from the STOS disk. […]

Variables and Dimensions are a way of storing information in STOS to use in your program. The two main pieces of information are words and numbers. Your program would decide if one of these equalled something and act upon it. Here’s a simple example of a variable being used. VARIABLES 10 print “Please type in […]

For you to use this tutorial you will need a copy of the STOS adventure Creator which you can download on the software page of my website. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to write a full adventure game called Witches Castle using SAC. The story goes like this: The wicked […]