LOL programming question.

tinman47 · Post by **tinman47** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:20 pm

Is it true you can make games out of MS-DOS Batch???

If so,how?

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:03 am

How ?
For starters, BUY A NEW KEYBOARD, one without caps or shift key , especially for you.
A topic title as PROGRAMMING QUESTION!!! is shouting at people, so if you want answers learn typing.

And I don't care that you're a 13 year young puber with acne, if you shout in my face you can solve your problems by yourself.

tinman47 · Post by **tinman47** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:09 am

................K.

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:35 pm

By command 'choice', but without savin'.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:04 pm

It's theoretically possible, but it'd be a pretty sucky game. Not very efficient, either. If you're looking for an easy "starter" language, you're better off going with Q-BASIC. (Heh heh)

You might want to try a Game Creation System instead, so you can focus on honing your actual programming and game design skills without having to build your own game engine.

Swiftcutter · Post by **Swiftcutter** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:49 pm

When I was in high school, I wrote a simple "game" in batch using the aforementioned CHOICE command. It was basically a "choose your own adventure" story. I believe the current version of batch code in XP's console has more commands available, so you may be able to do something more complex with it.

tinman47 · Post by **tinman47** » Sat May 05, 2007 12:18 pm

Problem though,XP has 5.1 MS-DOS,it doesn't have choice.

Post by **dosraider** » Sat May 05, 2007 12:45 pm

Dosbox has the CHOICE command.

Try once to input help or even better help /all at the dosbox prompt. ;)

Post by **wardrich** » Sat May 05, 2007 2:03 pm

tinman47 wrote:Problem though,XP has 5.1 MS-DOS,it doesn't have choice.

There are ways around it... here's how I did it in my batch script:

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set choice=
set /p choice=Pick a number.
if not '%choice%'=='' set choice=%choice&#58;~0,1%
if '%choice%'=='1' goto LUCIDA
if '%choice%'=='2' goto LINEDRAW
if '%choice%'=='3' goto OTHER
ECHO "%choice%" is not valid please try again

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:25 pm

uh, XP doesnt have DOS 5.1 because that is the version of winXP, you are not running the DOS included with winXP, you are running the shitty command prompt they include alongside the DOS that comes with winXP.

go to run and type each and after typing one push enter.

CMD
COMMAND

tinman47 · Post by **tinman47** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:14 pm

Hey...Franpa and Wardrich game me an Idea!

HEHEHE...

Perfect...

abyss · Post by **abyss** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:42 pm

Why do people say command prompt is lousy. It's just as good as real dos. msdos and command prompt don't emulate hardware their just dos command line perimeters. command prompt is great. The easiest to use language is gw basic.

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:08 am

It doesn't have all DOS commands.

redshock · Post by **redshock** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:00 pm

I'm going after a computer science major, so I figured I would share some light on this subject. Since we're at a DOS games site, I'll talk about DOS game programming. First, you need to know the programming language C. Not C++, it's way too overhead for DOS and was barely used. You can program straight in DOSBox using Turbo C (the compiler). Next I would suggest picking up Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus by Andre' LaMothe. You will be making games in no time. But take your time and don't skip over any of these steps.