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CHASE: A simple "chase" game
FREE!!!
Download chase.bas

This is an old computer game, derived from something that appeared in one of Creative Computing's old game books. The idea is, you're being chased by very lethal (but extremely stupid) robots, and you have to lure them into the electric fences. I doubt many people will find this game as addictive as I once did, but you never know. It's included for historic reference. The date of 6/25/84 would make it one of the earliest programs that I wrote for the IBM PC. The extended-ASCII character codes used in this program will probably look strange if you're not using the U.S. OEM character set.

CHASE includes source code in interpreted BASIC, in ASCII text form. It'll run fine under QuickBasic, too, or probably PowerBASIC, for that matter.

MOUNTAIN: The Moon Mountain Adventure
FREE!!!
Download mountain.exe

This old text adventure game was originally written for the TRS-80, primarily as an exercise in compact programming techniques. It was ported to the IBM PC world in 1984, as one of my first PC programming efforts. It uses a somewhat ugly CGA graphics mode, for no known reason, and is pretty spartan as adventures go. If you're obsessive about the history of adventure games, you probably need a copy. Otherwise...? Well, let's just say computers have advanced a lot since then, as have the games you can play on them.

The Moon Mountain Adventure, in the TRS-80 version, was submitted to Softside Magazine for publication (they printed software listings, which made some sense in days when floppies were expensive and programs were under 16Kb). It was written in interpreted BASIC (of course!) with some Z80 assembly-language subroutines. Softside couldn't decide whether to take it, and ultimately let it slide, though I did sell them other programs before and after that period.

TEXTRIS: A word game (shareware)

Textris is a little like Tetris and a little like Scrabble. Random letters fall from the sky. Fit them together to make words for points. Unused letters remain behind, cluttering the arena until at last there is no space left to build new words. Good spelling practice, and addictive fun! Requires an EGA, VGA, or better display.