Subj : Re: list.com
To   : Lynx769
From : mary4
Date : Thu Apr 18 2024 23:19:07

 Ly>  BC> My project was to write a game called "Battle Checkers"
 Ly>  BC> inspired by two other games: Scorched Earth and Battle Chess.
 Ly> 
 Ly> I loved Battle Chess and Scorched Earth both. I recently came across a
 Ly> retro DOS game archiving project called "eXoDos" and it had both of
 Ly> those in it. I loaded up Scorched Earth and actually got my kids to play
 Ly> a game with me. I was a lot of fun.
 Ly> 
 Ly> We played quite a bit of Scorched Earth duing CS3.
 Ly> 
i should get this game and battle chess
 Ly>  BC> These systems were running DOS 3 and had Hercules Graphics.
 Ly>  BC> I was using Borland Turbo Basic, which did not have built-in
 Ly>  BC> support for Hercules.  My teacher gave me a book with the PC
 Ly>  BC> memory map and i disassembled programs to figure out how to
 Ly>  BC> drive it.  Then i wrote graphics routines in ASM that i
 Ly>  BC> called from BASIC.  I also wrote a keyboard-based pixel art
 Ly> 
 Ly> That's seriously impressive and far beyond what I was able to
 Ly> accomplish, but then I've always been more interested in building the
 Ly> hardware than coding.
 Ly> 
i can code too! i just dont have the time right now
 Ly>  BC> Unfortunately, though i was proud of this, i had backed it up
 Ly>  BC> on floppies, and those floppies were destroyed while in
 Ly>  BC> storage.  I no longer have any of that code.
 Ly> 
 Ly> That's a shame. Last year I came across my name on a wiki of OS/2
 Ly> software. I completely forgot that I wrote a little random tagline
 Ly> generator and the program and the file of taglines were still available
 Ly> on an OS/2 archive site. I was able to download it and put it in my
 Ly> archive.
 Ly>
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i use climate controlled storage floppy are sensitive to heat 
 Ly> It's true that anything you put on the Internet is forever.
 Ly> 
true

--mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast

.... I don't have the time for a hobby. I have a computer.

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