Subj : Re: list.com
To   : Ben Collver
From : Lynx769
Date : Thu Apr 18 2024 11:52 am

 BC> My project was to write a game called "Battle Checkers"
 BC> inspired by two other games: Scorched Earth and Battle Chess.

I loved Battle Chess and Scorched Earth both. I recently came across a retro DOS game archiving project called "eXoDos" and it had both of those in it. I loaded up Scorched Earth and actually got my kids to play a game with me. I was a lot of fun.

We played quite a bit of Scorched Earth duing CS3.

 BC> These systems were running DOS 3 and had Hercules Graphics.
 BC> I was using Borland Turbo Basic, which did not have built-in
 BC> support for Hercules.  My teacher gave me a book with the PC
 BC> memory map and i disassembled programs to figure out how to
 BC> drive it.  Then i wrote graphics routines in ASM that i
 BC> called from BASIC.  I also wrote a keyboard-based pixel art

That's seriously impressive and far beyond what I was able to accomplish, but then I've always been more interested in building the hardware than coding.

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

That's a shame. Last year I came across my name on a wiki of OS/2 software. I completely forgot that I wrote a little random tagline generator and the program and the file of taglines were still available on an OS/2 archive site. I was able to download it and put it in my archive.

It's true that anything you put on the Internet is forever.


-- Lachlan

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