Subj : Re: list.com
To   : Lynx769
From : Ben Collver
Date : Wed Apr 17 2024 09:04 am

  Re: Re: list.com
  By: Lynx769 to AKAcastor on Wed Apr 17 2024 12:36 pm

I enjoyed reading about your CS3 experience in high school.

I had a similar experience, except for me they called it
"Reading & Conference".  Only a handful of us were in it.
We could do whatever we wanted and our entire grade would
be the result of a final project.

My project was to write a game called "Battle Checkers"
inspired by two other games: Scorched Earth and Battle Chess.
These systems were running DOS 3 and had Hercules Graphics.
I was using Borland Turbo Basic, which did not have built-in
support for Hercules.  My teacher gave me a book with the PC
memory map and i disassembled programs to figure out how to
drive it.  Then i wrote graphics routines in ASM that i
called from BASIC.  I also wrote a keyboard-based pixel art
drawing program.  The teacher and my class mates were
impressed with how the game turned out.  My teacher said
that he was relieved that i didn't choose to make a
D&D character generator, because he had seen so many that
it had become a cliche.

Unfortunately, though i was proud of this, i had backed it up
on floppies, and those floppies were destroyed while in
storage.  I no longer have any of that code.
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