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First post, by spammersareidiots

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Hi,

I am new to this forum.

During the days of DOS, I wrote a programming language which I named ShowText. Using my ShowText programming language, I wrote several (80x25 color ASCII text) games. These games will run in DosBox.

They are available at: http://www.desktopgadgets.org/showtext_games.zip

You can run the GAMES.BAT batch file for a menu which can be used to select the games or you can run the games individually from the DOS prompt.

The games are pretty simple, but I hope you enjoy them.

-SpammersAreIdiots

Reply 1 of 4, by retrofanatic

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Awesome!!! Brings me back to old days when I used to play ASCII games in school while my typing teacher wasn't looking. The game was called "PopGames" and opened a small window while you were in another program. Your games remind me of that.

Wiggle Worm is my favouraite so far.

Good job. Thanks for making them available.

Reply 2 of 4, by leileilol

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Awesome, on the first try!!!

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long live PCem

Reply 3 of 4, by spammersareidiots

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For anyone interested in playing around with my ShowText programming language, you can download the entire language package at:
http://www.desktopgadgets.org/shwtxt22a.zip

This package contains the compiler and the ShowText source code for all of the games.

This software package is provided as-is with NO TECHNICAL SUPPORT whatsoever, mainly because I have not worked on it since 1998. 😀

-SpammersAreIdiots

Reply 4 of 4, by retrofanatic

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leileilol wrote:

Awesome, on the first try!!!

Hahaha 🤣 ...that number guessing game reminds me of Chevy Chase in Vegas Vacation! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR9h3d_4NGA Classic.

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