create ascii game

Cheatmaster Stijn · Post by **Cheatmaster Stijn** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 4:22 am

Hello, i'm looking for a program to create ascii games. i'm also looking for a program to create all sorts of dos-games. does anybody has such a program?

P.S. Sorry for possible orthography errors, because I am Dutch.

Oz · Post by Oz » Mon Aug 11, 2003 7:27 am

http://www.dosgames.com/g_gcs.php

you want ZZT and/or Megazeux. they're on that page.

Cheatmaster Stijn · Post by **Cheatmaster Stijn** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:37 am

The Great Haakon · Post by **The Great Haakon** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:49 am

I would like to know how to create a game on DOS using Windows XP. Somebody please help me.

barok · Post by **barok** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:03 am

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if you want to create an ascii game, why not just learn how to program? ascii games are quite easy once you get the hang of it. in fact, learn qbasic and join qbtk.com's roguelike challenge! personally, i think programming is much better than an maker because it's more flexible.

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:43 pm

The problem with programming is that it is very time-consuming. Also it can be a pain to learn.

Personally, I think ZZT is the best quick solution for now since it has an intuitive interface and quick results.

Micah · Post by **Micah** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 9:58 pm

Just use MegaZeux. You can edit the ASCII chars and get some pretty cool effects! You can also edit a 16 color palette, or use SMZX, a VGA hack that allows 256 colors (but is very hard). Here, I will link to a screenshot of what normal MegaZeux graphics are capable of: http://www.digitalmzx.net/forums/index. ... =7560&st=0 Thats a log of one of the upcoming projects. Also, it has more flexibility than you can imagine.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:42 pm

Qbasic is the best way to make games and everything else.As someone said here Qbasic can do more than you can Imagine

acclue · Post by **acclue** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:09 pm

speaking of megazeux can some1 help me? i need a way to play it on xp, is there a way? if so how?

nastypoisonspikes · Post by **nastypoisonspikes** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:59 am

I'm pretty sure that I've done it before, albeit a long time ago, and I may not have had sound. Recently a (beta) Windows port came out on the Megazeux site Zeuxworld, which has unfortunetly now met it's demise for some reason. I don't know, I'm more of a ZZTer. Anyway, you'll have to search for it somewhere. I think there are still other MZX sites around!

Six Leg Goped · Post by **Six Leg Goped** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:20 pm

to run megazeux on xp, right click on megazeux.exe and goto the memory tab and under the 'Extended (EMS) memory" box, in the dropdown box, choose "auto" and hit apply and ok

barok_unlogged · Post by **barok_unlogged** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 12:10 am

if that doesn't work though, your going to have to go into your bios and turn the legacy usb ports off.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:27 am

Micah wrote:Just use MegaZeux. You can edit the ASCII chars and get some pretty cool effects! You can also edit a 16 color palette, or use SMZX, a VGA hack that allows 256 colors (but is very hard). Here, I will link to a screenshot of what normal MegaZeux graphics are capable of: http://www.digitalmzx.net/forums/index. ... =7560&st=0 Thats a log of one of the upcoming projects. Also, it has more flexibility than you can imagine.

microman · Post by **microman** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:54 pm

So far, I use ZZT and QBASIC.

I've made a game called treasure of the ruins. Ever played "Last Half of Darkness":
Kindof a step down from that, and text-based.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:06 pm

I recently made a simple ASCII game in Turbo Pascal 5.5 . Borland are giving away this compiler for free.. Its very good and an easy language to pick up.

Dosser · Post by **Dosser** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:37 pm

ASC games are the perfect inroad into games programming.

I would recommend using QBasic or C, or any old, easy to learn language you want. Speed shouldn't be an issue, so these choices are all acceptable.

I worked for about 6 months on as massive roguealike game in QB: eventually gave up when someone destroyed the computer with all my source code on it (and my only backup was a few weeks old). My new computer seems to really dislike QB, so the game ended there.

nonetheless, I learnt a lot about programming from this game.

clayton · Post by **clayton** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:56 am

i would like to know how to create a game in pascal programming but dont know from where to start

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:30 pm

Well, you can get the compiler from here:

http://community.borland.com/article/0, ... 03,00.html

Buy a book, or look up the basics and have fun. If you are going to buy a book, I know that 'Turbo Pascal 5.5 - The Complete Reference' is a good book to buy (If you can find it) .

dosguy · Post by **dosguy** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 1:41 pm

I am learning c++ and I am creating a dos ASCII game as my first learning curve project. I used to use java. Heres some screenshots.

I love programming- its really very rewarding and people think you are clever