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Tetragon v1.0 and More!

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First post, by BinaryDemon

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Tetragon - a Casual Basic Game for old computers. Game concept derived from ZNAX.

Requirements: (Some of these are guesses which is why I'm hoping for some feedback)
8088/8086
CGA
640kb ram
Dos 5.0

Fresh Game:

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Selecting a Rectangle:

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Success its scoring and replacing those boxes.

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I've only tested in DOSBox and on my Pocket386, both of which work well. If someone could test on a 8088 and let me know if redrawing the boxes is a painful experience or see if the program launches with 512kb, that would be appreciated.

This game was never my original plan, when I hit some design constraints on the original project and had switch tactics, I thought well I put some decent work into this approach, how can I make something from it.

Some notes:
- Although its called Tetragon, the only shapes it will recognize is squares or rectangles.
- Mouse only. I suppose you could use something like MouseKeys, but I did not add keyboard support at this time.
- If you make a mistake on selecting corners 1-3, you can click on them again to undo. Clicking the 4th corner will "Send it" so if you make a mistake then it costs you a turn.
- High Score is lost when you exit. Game does not attempt to do any writes to filesystem.
- It might be possible that no rectangles/squares exist? This was common when I was using 14 colors on the board, but after reducing it to 5 colors on the board- I have never seen it happen. Even tho its not a time based game, I didnt want to make searching for squares/rectangles a tedious process.

Improvement Ideas:
- Add support for parallelgram / rhomus?
- Keyboard support?
- Save High Score?
Realistically I wont implement any of these, and probably wont add others but I'd like to hear suggestions.

Download Link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Qp_ZIzEk2YR … iew?usp=sharing

Last edited by BinaryDemon on 2025-07-18, 01:26. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 3, by zyzzle

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Is this like SameGame? It seems an "improved" version of that game.

Reply 2 of 3, by BinaryDemon

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I wasn’t aware of SameGame but it looks similar.
SameGame the goal seems to be to clear the board, and in Tetragon it replaces the blocks and you are just going for High Score.

Reply 3 of 3, by BinaryDemon

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I’ve decided that my amateur coding projects don’t each deserve their own thread so I’ll just keep adding here:

Meet Video Poker - Jacks or Better, a recreation of the classic casino game.

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I’d guess same requirements as before - something like 8088, DOS 5.0+, 640kb, CGA or better, and Mouse.

Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V5PAvNbORFBF … ew?usp=drivesdk