Welcome to the world of MS-DOS!

In the beginning it was plain DOS... It was about 1991, when I got my first computer. At that time I started programming in BASIC and Turbo Pascal (with a little of assembly). For about 7 years, I was writing programs for DOS. After that, I started developing software for Windows, but soon I fell in love with the Unix environment and completely abandoned the world of dos/dos oops... dos/win I mean :-)

Games

What Video Game Character Are You? I am a Gauntlet Adventurer.

I strive to improve my living conditions by hoarding gold, food, and sometimes keys and potions. I love adventure, fighting, and particularly winning - especially when there's a prize at stake. I occasionally get lost inside buildings and can't find the exit. I need food badly! :-)

Master Mind

mmind.pas: You can try to guess the computer's number, or let the computer guess your number using the minimum number of efforts!

Nibbles

nibbles.zip (c source & binary): The well known Nibbles game. It supports many players concurrently!

Score 4

score4.zip (pascal source & binary)

The classical game Connect Four (also known as Score 4). The game's AI is far from perfect (but might beat you easily if you are not careful). I wrote this game when I had no idea of AI algorithms! :-) If you are interested in Connect Four, then check also the following:

Velena - Perfect play - first player always wins!
Keith Pomakis' n-In-A-Row page
See here for a modern C++/SFML remake

Ms Pacman

mspacgt.zip (pascal source & binary): An Ms Pacman game.

ra.zip (pascal source & binary): An arcade/platform game. Idea and graphics were stolen from Pharaoh's Tomb! (sorry).

RA 2

ra2.zip (DJGPP c++ source & binary): Second version of RA. Now with scrolling and more colors! Uses the Allegro multi-platform game library. I guess porting to linux would be easy (thanks to Allegro). If you do it, send me a copy!

Turbo Pascal Units

gtunits.zip

You will need some of these units to compile the pascal games.

advanced.pas	various advanced routines (indosflag,bload,bsave,etc.)
ansi.pas	convert a string to ansi-escapes and vice versa
basic.pas	various text mode routines (gettext/puttext/colors/frames/etc.)
bios.pas	bios disk drive routines (read/write/format)
crt2.pas	fast text i/o unit
fade.pas	fade in/out (palette effect)
keyb2.pas	keyboard flags (shift/capslock/etc.)
keyboard.pas	crt's readkey/keypressed replacement
math.pas	some math routines
mouse.pas	mouse support unit
movsb.pas	assembly string operations (with 32-bit support)
patch.pas	file patching
protect.pas	checksum copy protection
sbaudio.pas	sound blaster audio (low level)
strhan.pas	string handling routines
textfont.pas	bios text fonts
timer.pas	timer routines
vga.pas	vga 320x200 8bit graphics unit
xargs.pas	argument handling
xsound.pas	high level audio routines (for games)

Utilities

File & Disk Utilities

fsplit.pas: Split large files in smaller pieces with this utility.
go.pas: Search the directory tree in BFS order and change to the directory specified.
timex.pas: This program allows you to time the execution of another program and can warn you in real-time if the time limit has been exceeded. It also tries to detect if the target program has messed with the timer! ;-)

TSR Programs

alarm.pas: This program demonstrates the use of the alarm feature of BIOS. It actually locks up the computer in about a minute! Of course, you should compile this to disk first and then load the .exe file. This is common for turbo pascal memory resident programs using Keep().
crazykey.pas: Heh, this is fun. This is a memory resident program that "eats up" some keypresses of the cursor (arrow) keys. I wrote this program because my sister played a silly game all the time and didn't let me use the computer! :-D Load this program and play a game that is using the cursor keys (like pacman) to see for yourself.