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       # 2025-11-27 - What Fools These Mortals
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       Recently i discovered a fun mini game and NetHack spin-off. It was
       written in Python in 2003.  I translated it to BASIC, specifically
       QBASIC.EXE.  Consequently the game can run on an 8086 & 640 KB RAM
       which i verified in an emulator.  Coding for QBASIC.EXE feels very
       constraining in comparison to FreeBASIC, which supports convenient
       features such as OOP.  To me this counts as a form of "code golf".
       This runs fine in DOSBox.
       
 (DIR) What Fools These Mortals version 1.1
       
       The .zip file contains two versions: fools.bat and fools.exe.
       
       * fools.bat requires QBASIC.EXE
       * fools.exe requires an 80386 or better processor.
       
 (DIR) QBASIC.EXE
       
       I have other fun NetHack related downloads:
       
 (BIN) CHRHACK
       
 (IMG) DawnHack for DOS
       
 (DIR) Illustrated NetHack Guidebook
       
       tags: retrocomputing
       
       # Tags
       
 (DIR) retrocomputing