Marbles Solitaire

Marbles Solitair

Marbles Solitair is a puzzle game mainly written in Basic for the C64.

The aim of the game is to remove as many marbles as possible.

In the best case you can finish with one marble left.

How to play

A marble is removed when you jump over it with another marble horizontal or vertical. 

To jump, select a marble with the selection ring by pressing fire. Next you  move the joystick in the direction where the marble shall go. The marble will moe only if it can move over one other marble onto an empty field.

Game control 

The game is controlled only with a joystick in port 2.

Game Menue

The game as also an in game menue with a few additonl features.

You enter the menue by pressing the fire button on the joystick while the seletion ring is on an empty field.

The option 'undo' in the menue un-does the previous moves.

"Disk" allows to save the current state to disk (into the file 'DATA') and to load a state.

To load the saved state, you have to know the code with the which it had been saved. 

The codes are entered with the joystick as well. left and right allow you to select the position(mark with red) to be changed.

Up and down change the letter at the marked position. with fire you enter the code.

If a game was successfully loaded it is replayed automatically until the moment it got saved.

The option 'game' in the menues returns you back to playing the game.

Only on state can be save to disk. saving another overwrites any previously written states.

'Tune' allows you to turn the music on and off.

Last option 'new' restarts the game;

System requirements

The game can be played on a Commodore 64 or in an emulator like Vice