Hi folks,
Old basic for dos started with gwBasic.exe
You had to type in on the command line,
c:\gwbasic.exe game.bas
to get the game.bas to run.
A newer version was named basica.exe
and then
qbasic.exe which was what Jim's DOS games used.
All the basic programs could produce a executable if compiled with the
correct switches .
I don't remember what they were.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Belanger" <[email protected]>
To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] bpc text adventures
They are written in basic and you will need an interpreter to run them. I
heard of a program called GWBasic a while back, but not sure if it still
exists or is being developed.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of dark
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 6:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Audyssey] bpc text adventures
After Michael asked about these it got me curious and I downloaded and
tried
them.
I assumed that sinse they said they ran with doss, there would be a file I
could run under the console in windows to play the game, such as an exe,
com
or bat file, but there are none of those around in the folders, just a bas
file which does nothing when I try to open it.
Are these completely un runnable under windows? and if so, any chance of
making them runnable?
I just rather fancy the idea of single player adventure games, ----- maybe
lewie could fix these the way he did with the great escape, which is
deffinately fun.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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