Nice!

Want to extend it to Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock? 😁

Very neat... Thanks for keeping it Retro. GW-BASIC in 2023!

dr_st wrote on 2023-01-10, 10:21:

Nice!

Want to extend it to Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock? 😁

Thanks!

Will try, but do not promise a quick result ... because of the rolling power outages, it is not always possible to program.

zyzzle wrote on 2023-01-10, 12:12:

Very neat... Thanks for keeping it Retro. GW-BASIC in 2023!

Thanks!

BASIC studied back in the Soviet circles of computer science, then at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, and still remember. ÷)

The games looks pretty, I really like your design/layout, too! Kudos to you! 😎

Hi,
I'm not a GWBASIC expert, so can you tell me how you compiled a COM file with your GWBASIC (I could not find such an option in my GWBASIC 3.20) and how you saved your .BAS file to be a readable source/text file (my saved BAS files are always token compressed binary files)?
Thanks in advance.

Hi, I'm not the author, but saving to plain ASCII in BASIC is simple: SAVE "Program.bas", A

Compiling can theoreticaly be done with compilers lile MBASIC, BASCOM or Quick Basic..
Depends on how GW-BASIC/BASICA specific the program is.
But again, I'm not the author. 😅

Falcosoft wrote on 2023-01-10, 12:57:

Hi,
I'm not a GWBASIC expert, so can you tell me how you compiled a COM file with your GWBASIC (I could not find such an option in my GWBASIC 3.20) and how you saved your .BAS file to be a readable source/text file (my saved BAS files are always token compressed binary files)?
Thanks in advance.

Greetings!
Can be converted using exe2com (or bin2com) utility. The difference between exe and com is the 256-byte header.
Jo22 answered the second question.

Jo22 wrote on 2023-01-10, 13:06:

Compiling can theoreticaly be done with compilers lile MBASIC, BASCOM or Quick Basic..
Depends on how GW-BASIC/BASICA specific the program is.

Thanks! There is also a Turbo Basic. =)

Thanks to both of you for your answers!

Can be converted using exe2com (or bin2com) utility. The difference between exe and com is the 256-byte header.

OK, I have not made my question clear enough. My problem is not the COM format output per se, I cannot compile even EXE files from my GWBASIC 3.20.
So my more explicit question is: Do you use GWBASIC itself to compile EXE/COM files or have you used another Basic compiler (that is source code compatible with GWBASIC) to compile rps.com (rps.exe)?

Falcosoft wrote on 2023-01-10, 15:26:

OK, I have not made my question clear enough. My problem is not the COM format output per se, I cannot compile even EXE files from my GWBASIC 3.20.
So my more explicit question is: Do you use GWBASIC itself to compile EXE/COM files or have you used another Basic compiler (that is source code compatible with GWBASIC) to compile rps.com (rps.exe)?

Use BASCOM as a compiler, this is IBM Basic Compiler. The /o option is used to create a standalone executable (object) file. Then use the linker (link.exe) on rps.obj to create rps.exe.

dr_st wrote on 2023-01-10, 10:21:

Want to extend it to Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock? 😁

Also included are 3250 variants and samples of 1-bit graphics.

Amazing! Thanks for doing this variant. 👍👍👍

It turns out that there are options for 15 and 25 hand combinations.

Nice to see the traditional rock-paper-scissors game made for older IBM compatible PCs. 👍

I think that consolidating the options for the hand combinations into one executable would be more convenient if possible.

Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-01-17, 14:20:

Nice to see the traditional rock-paper-scissors game made for older IBM compatible PCs. 👍

Glad to read.

Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-01-17, 14:20:

I think that consolidating the options for the hand combinations into one executable would be more convenient if possible.

The source code and the executable file for DOS are attached.

Hi again. 😀 I've tinkered a bit with the CGA registers, now it's also in composite mode, sorta.
Additional NTSC artifact patterns would still be needed to make it look awesome, though. 🙁
Anyway, I don't mean to steal the show. I can PM you the file, if you're curious 'how I messed things up', hi. 😅
Edit: Tried out some patterns.. The original 4 colour CGA is still intact.

Jo22 wrote on 2023-02-02, 09:25:

I've tinkered a bit with the CGA registers, now it's also in composite mode, sorta.
I can PM you the file, if you're curious 'how I messed things up', hi. 😅

Thank you, interesting, please post here, for everyone.

yevrowl wrote on 2023-02-02, 20:30:

Jo22 wrote on 2023-02-02, 09:25:

I've tinkered a bit with the CGA registers, now it's also in composite mode, sorta.
I can PM you the file, if you're curious 'how I messed things up', hi. 😅

Thank you, interesting, please post here, for everyone.

No no, I must thank you. 😅 You did a very good job at writing the game. 😄 👍
And I didn't meant to mess that up. That's why I haven't attached anything without your okay so far, also.
My, err, 'contribution' in the attachment is a bit quick&dirty. Needs cleanup.. I'm still looking for a red pattern, also.
I've taken some code snippets from my older programming experiments from the past years.
On the bright side, the few additions are easy to spot and can be removed easily anytime.
A few IF.. THENs, essentially and some commands placed in same line by using colons..

Colours. I tried out different patterns and kept those which I hoped didn't mess so much with the graphics.
Luckily, light green worked for the lizard, white for paper and blue for spock (the top of his science uniform was blue in TOS).
I hope that's okay for now. Composite should be seen more like an easter egg/gimmick, maybe. It's more like a sub mode, anyway.
Hopefully, everything works on real hardware, too. A nice red like in the other video modes would be neat, I think. 😀

https://www.mobygames.com/game/203123/rock-pa … s-lizard-spock/