+nanochess Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 (edited) Hi all! Yesterday, I was reading a great article by Benj Edwards about GORILLA.BAS at https://www.howtogeek.com/779956/gorilla.bas-how-to-play-the-secret-ms-dos-game-from-your-childhood/ And I felt really inspired to port it to Intellivision using IntyBASIC. I started late in the night 9:30pm, and coded till 1am, then today woke up at 7am and keep coding until it was finished by 10am. I think it resulted really good! Some things needed to be changed, the graphics and screen arrangement needed a complete rethinking, I could adapt the music and effects very nicely, and of course the floating-point equation for banana throwing (it depends on a lot of precision by using multiplications), so I've made it to be accumulative using fixed-point numbers with very little precision, yet it works great! Find attached the source code and playable ROM for the game. Enjoy it! gorillas.rom gorillas.bas Edited January 25, 2022 by nanochess 30 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 You are AWESOME! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnPCAE Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 (edited) Awesome! It reminds of the DOS game Scorched Earth, which had all kinds of options as well as support for tweaked VGA modes. Have you ever played that? https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/scorched-earth/ Edited January 25, 2022 by JohnPCAE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 19 minutes ago, JohnPCAE said: Awesome! It reminds of the DOS game Scorched Earth, which had all kinds of options as well as support for tweaked VGA modes. Have you ever played that? https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/scorched-earth/ I think I played it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Speed programmer! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+5-11under Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 ... and he seems to be pretty decent at coding in IntyBasic 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 44 minutes ago, JohnPCAE said: Awesome! It reminds of the DOS game Scorched Earth, which had all kinds of options as well as support for tweaked VGA modes. Have you ever played that? https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/scorched-earth/ I remember Scorched Earth and it's predecessor Tank Wars. My fraternity brothers and I would play 4-8 person matches and had a great time. We had debates as to which game was better but both were fun. https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/tank-wars/ As for Gorillas.bas, I was wondering when someone was going to port that game. ? Microsoft shipped its source code with DOS to show off their QBasic engine. https://classicreload.com/qbasic-gorillas.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 10 minutes ago, Lathe26 said: I remember Scorched Earth and it's predecessor Tank Wars. My fraternity brothers and I would play 4-8 person matches and had a great time. We had debates as to which game was better but both were fun. https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/tank-wars/ As for Gorillas.bas, I was wondering when someone was going to port that game. ? Microsoft shipped its source code with DOS to show off their QBasic engine. https://classicreload.com/qbasic-gorillas.html I played it at the time when MS-DOS 5 came out. Interestingly I forgot about it, but a few years later (mid-nineties) a friend was asking me if I had the game. I said him it was included with MS-DOS, but crazily I couldn't find it. In fact at this date I don't know why it disappeared from my games collection!!! My deduction is that I needed more space for copying a game along the DOS, and deleted Gorilla.BAS and QBASIC.EXE, without even knowing it was my only copy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 I used to play Scorched Earth quite a lot. As PC's became faster, it became less and less enjoyable. I suppose artillery duel type games are quite common, and I'd like to include my port of Ouranos! into that category (though it lacks an AI opponent). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinistermoon Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Very cool! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cjherr Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Thank you, sir! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntelliRat Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 That's really cool. I always wanted a proper artillery game with destructible environment for Intellivision, The Cannon in Mr. Basic Meets Bits 'N Bytes being the best alternative I've found. I never played Gorillas as a kid but I played a couple of other games in the same turn-based artillery genre, Base Conflict for MS-DOS and Bang! Bang! for Windows 3.11, which were popular until games like Worms and Liero took over. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 (edited) Reminds me of Bow man Edited January 26, 2022 by JasonlikesINTV 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyChris Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Your Killing It! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyChris Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 OT: What was your introduction to the Intellivision? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 55 minutes ago, CrazyChris said: OT: What was your introduction to the Intellivision? I was age 5, and my neighbors (two floors under our apartment) bought an Intellivision and the kids were playing Triple Action in a B&W televisor. But I wasn't allowed to touch the controllers because I just had broken two Atari joysticks. So you know, someday I had to get an Intellivision. Also at this day the reverse is true, the joysticks kill my wrist 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I should make a mod to whenever you hit the sun. You knock it down like a picture frame and 2 gorilla freeze to death like it is freezing outside my house. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I misread that as you're currently having two dead gorillas in front of your house, and casually just mentioned that. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyChris Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 On 1/26/2022 at 1:43 PM, nanochess said: I was age 5, and my neighbors (two floors under our apartment) bought an Intellivision and the kids were playing Triple Action in a B&W televisor. But I wasn't allowed to touch the controllers because I just had broken two Atari joysticks. So you know, someday I had to get an Intellivision. Also at this day the reverse is true, the joysticks kill my wrist They didn't happen to be Slik Stik's? I broke two of those. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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