ccg1_computer_nightmare.py

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Created on September 19, 2025

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This game is a typing contest where you need to type the shown number (hold down the key). The game is Computer Nightmare from Usborne Creepy Computer Games (1983) by Jenny Tyler & Chris Oxlade (ed). Free pdf:s are on https://usborne.com/row/books/computer-and-coding-books. The ZX81 BASIC original was typed in by XavSnap on https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1809. Converted to MicroPython for NumWorks calculator and simulator by mobluse/MOB-i-L. The converted program is close to ZX81 BASIC and not optimized or pythonic Python.

# Computer Nightmare from Usborne Creepy Computer Games (1983)
# s is used in variables and functions where $ was used in BASIC.
import ion as k
from random import random

nn=(k.KEY_ONE,k.KEY_TWO,k.KEY_THREE,k.KEY_FOUR,k.KEY_FIVE,k.KEY_SIX,k.KEY_SEVEN,k.KEY_EIGHT,k.KEY_NINE)

def CLS():
  for i in range(10):
    print()

def INKEYs():
  for i in range(len(nn)):
    if k.keydown(nn[i]):
      return str(i+1)
  return ""

Fs="0"
Cs=[None]*6
S=300
Cs[1]="** MICROS RULE. **"
Cs[2]="*PEOPLE ARE STUPID*"
Cs[3]="+A ROBOT FOR PRESIDENT!"
Cs[4]="!COMPUTERS ARE GREAT!"
Cs[5]="*I'M BETTER THAN YOU.*"
while True:
  CLS()
  N=int(random()*len(nn))+1
  print(5*" ",N,sep="")
  print(15*" ",S,sep="")
  if not random()>0.5:
    print()
    print(Cs[int(S/100)+1])
  if S<60:
    print("<THERE'S NO HOPE>")
  if S>440:
    print("URK! HELP!!")
  for i in range(1, 41):
    As=INKEYs()
    if As!="":
      Fs=As
  S=S-10
  if not int(Fs)!=N:
    S=S+10+N*2
  if S<0:
    print("YOU'RE NOW MY SLAVE")
    break
  if S>500:
    print("OK.. YOU WIN (THIS TIME)")
    break