2025-11-27 - What Fools These Mortals
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Recently i discovered a fun mini game and NetHack spin-off. It was
written in Python in 2003.  I translated it to BASIC, specifically
QBASIC.EXE.  Consequently the game can run on an 8086 & 640 KB RAM
which i verified in an emulator.  Coding for QBASIC.EXE feels very
constraining in comparison to FreeBASIC, which supports convenient
features such as OOP.  To me this counts as a form of "code golf".
This runs fine in DOSBox.

What Fools These Mortals version 1.1
<gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/files/dos/game/fools/>

The .zip file contains two versions: fools.bat and fools.exe.

* fools.bat requires QBASIC.EXE
* fools.exe requires an 80386 or better processor.

QBASIC.EXE
<gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/files/dos/devel/qbasic/>

I have other fun NetHack related downloads:

CHRHACK
<gopher://tilde.pink/9/~bencollver/files/dos/game/nethack/chrhk24b.zip>

DawnHack for DOS
<gopher://tilde.pink/I/~bencollver/log/
2025-08-02-nethack-dawnhack-tileset/dawnhack.bmp>

Illustrated NetHack Guidebook
<gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/log/
2025-08-02-nethack-dawnhack-tileset/>

tags: retrocomputing

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