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Awesome. Thanks for the info! I'm really surprised by this. I didn't know you could do anything useful with C64's BASIC. I know I didn't. I waited till I had GW-BASIC on a PC XT to really learn how to program.

If Pirates! was mostly high level BASIC, I wish the source code was available somewhere to read. Kind of like Broderbund, which released the assembly language code for some of its old games...




It should be pretty straightforward to extract it from the image file using the modern emulator/debuggers. I believe the comments (if any) will be scarce, but still...




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