Do you recall the old Square game I typed in by MacOglesby?
It's a simple game like TicTacToe, just with squares... read more here.
I found a bug in the typed in version due to the bad printing of the Peoples Computer Company Newspaper. I found it after two hours of searching and fixed it.
Then I thought "Is Q Basic on my DOS machine able to run BASIC 1.0 programs?" - Yes it is.
But these compiled *.exe's will not run on modern 64 bit PCs.
Last week I stumbled upon a modern open source implementation of QBasic https://qb64.com/ and I gave it a try....
Guess what.... Mac Oglesby games from 1976 compile without errors to 64 bit executables versions...
Hmmm. Next thing I tried was the reeeeaaaaly old "Speed an Angle" Game Andi wrote in 1999. There was a massive bug because of the automatic speed setting.
(Back then I simply looped 100000 times and measured the time passed to calculate a delay after each dot. Nowadays this 100000 looping takes 0 seconds which results in division by zero error....
So I had to adapt the looping to like 10000000 times...)
What we have now is the latest version of our old game running on 64 bitters ...whooop
Square: https://netzherpes.de/square.zip
Speed: https://netzherpes.de/speed.zip
Stay childish!
Yours,
webdoktor
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