04-01-2023, 09:55 PM
(03-23-2023, 11:18 AM)DANILIN Wrote: plus it looks like XONIX
It just hit me what this "XONIX" could be. Downloaded the latest KolibriOS (update March 2023) and came across that game. Which reminded me of one that was very addictive to me many years ago written in Turbo Pascal v3.0 called "Antix" or something like that. It was like that "Qix" game I played on Nintendo Game Boy, but with bouncing balls as enemies. But the sound effects were annoying LOL. The game was hard, could never reserve more than half the area against three balls.
That "Antix" was pretty good from the late 1980's, it helped open my eyes that it was possible to create a game with BASIC or Pascal which ran very quickly if certain things were in order, and not resort to assembly language. Back then I had a Tandy1000HX with a memory board expanding to 640KB and it was pokey. I should have been able to come up with a game like that with Turbo Pascal v5.5 or v6.0 but became lazy and unrealistic with the goals. I hated pointers that much, wanted nothing to do with C but wound up learning it and dabbling into it anyway, less for games. With that I was trying to get some kind of advantage while searching for employment.
Side note: KolibriOS is an entirely different operating system from what you might have seen. The disk image is only about 250MB. It could be written raw to an USB stick and booted. It's a throwback to Windows98 or something like that, has some development tools and many games. It has a Tiny Basic interpreter -- too tiny for me LOL. The operating system was written by a bunch of Russian programmers. Not to be confused with ReactOS, an attempt to re-create WindowsNT.