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First post, by Jlivingstonsg

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Hi.

I found some years ago a game that we played 1989-1990 called BlockOut that is a 3D Tetris.
And I can now play the original game in a DOS emulator in a browser.
Just Google: blockout online
and you can try some in your browser.
But I could only save my score in browser cookies and that bothered me.
Then I found a game that could save score on a server scoreboard webpage called BlockOut2.
But I had to download it and install it.
Then some years later I found a version on GitHub for a browser in open source that worked quite well.
Just Google: cubeout blockout
and you can find it.
And the code is here.
https://github.com/Ringdingcoder/CubeOut

But I can still not upload score on a server scoreboard so I decided to try my self.

https://gamereality.se/blockout/index.php

It save score both in browser and on a SQL server webpage now. 😀

I want to make it look and work exactly like the original so if you want to help me,
then I have some code here, on my version on GitHub.
https://github.com/jlivingstonsg/BlockOut

Any bugs or suggetsions?

MagI.

Number 30 in BlockOut2 on level "Out of control"

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Last edited by Jlivingstonsg on 2020-09-16, 07:43. Edited 1 time in total.

I am ranked number 29 in BlockOut2 on Level: "Out of control".
http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/worldrankin … php?setupid=458

Reply 1 of 5, by Jorpho

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This is nice – especially because the cracked version circulating on the Internet was never officially free – but it really doesn't have anything to do with DOS anymore.

I don't really understand your question. Are you having a problem with HTML formatting..?

Reply 2 of 5, by Jlivingstonsg

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I just try to find people who remember this BlockOut game from 1989 and want to be part of the development of this browser BlockOut version with SQL scoreboard.

Regards MagI

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I am ranked number 29 in BlockOut2 on Level: "Out of control".
http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/worldrankin … php?setupid=458

Reply 3 of 5, by Jlivingstonsg

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Hi.

I have now with some help a BlockOut game for browser with server scoreboard.

https://gamereality.se/blockout/index.php

Please try it and tell me what is good or bad.
I will try to make it look and work just as the original BloBlockOut from 1989.

Regards MagI

I am ranked number 29 in BlockOut2 on Level: "Out of control".
http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/worldrankin … php?setupid=458

Reply 4 of 5, by root42

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Pretty decent I must say! Looks relatively like the original game. Of course the 640x350 EGA graphics was something special... but for running in a browser: not bad at all!
Is the playmode configurable? In the original game you could tweak several game parameters.

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Reply 5 of 5, by Jlivingstonsg

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I will try to make it exactly as the original with all setup parameters.
But hey .....
The coders from 1989 where seriously great people.
This will take time..... 😀

This is how to play it in a browser with a DOS emulator with the original code from 1989.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxJfcCYs7bM

Love this BlockOut game... 😀

Regards MagI

I am ranked number 29 in BlockOut2 on Level: "Out of control".
http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/worldrankin … php?setupid=458

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