Spinner Game Demo

[TerryRitchie]

Gyruss!

An old coin-op game that has a similar looking ship moving in the same way.  That "where have I played this before?" feeling bugged me.  As a proud old arcade regular, I had to figure it out.

I knew it began with a G!

I just renamed all the files to lower case for any other Linux user. Hey, I wonder if a command like that exists in Windows?

Not such a simple way, unless Win11 added features to RENAME.  There are many free bulk file renaming utilities, and many file managers such as Free Commander can do bulk renaming with case changes.


Here is a way to change uppercase to lowercase (but not lower-to-upper) from the Windows command line, without additional tools:

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for /f "Tokens=*" %f in ('dir /l/b/a-d') do (rename "%f" "%f")

if typed directly into the command prompt, or

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for /f "Tokens=*" %%f in ('dir /l/b/a-d') do (rename "%%f" "%%f")

if used in a batch script.


It can also be done in PowersHell: 

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dir MYDIR -r | % { if ($_.Name -cne $_.Name.ToLower()) { ren $_.FullName $_.Name.ToLower() } }

(replace MYDIR with the name of the directory that contains the offending files, or leave it out to operate on the current directory.  This method will recurse into subdirectories as well.)


Cool ship you've got there, Terry!

Yes, Gyruss! I completely forgot about that game.

I used to be the DOS batch script king back in the day. Thank you for the scripts, I'm so behind the times now.

I can't take credit for the ship. I found it on the Internet probably 10 years ago. I included the original image below. I modified the image for the game to get rid of the lighting effect in the original.