Any free, quick&easy DOS game programming tools out there?
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an MS-DOS application, and I was wondering if there are any game
programming tools/languages/libraries out there that I could use to
help me. Because it's a board game, I know that I will be satisfied
with using the color text mode for drawing the board and pieces, but
I might be interested in other things, such as sound effects and music,
and possibly graphics for the title screen or whatever. Here are some
things that I would prefer:
1) It should be free.
Actually, this is a requirement. I'm not going to take this seriously
enough to spend money on it.
2) It must be capable of doing multiplication and addition calcualtions.
I don't know if some game programmers merely do backgrounds, objects,
and object collisions.
3) It should be easy to program games.
Not an absolute requirement, but the easier the better.
4) It should be able to produce an executable.
Not a big requirement.
Currently, I'm using Qbasic, and my only gripes with this are the
inablility to produce an executable (QuickBasic isn't free, remember)
and the inability to easily produce multi-part harmonies; either you
get solo notes through the PC speaker or have to learn how to program
an Adlib/SB to use the Qbasic libraries for such cards.
There might be advanced C libraries out there with functions I could
call for easy graphics and sound. On the other hand, I've seen
products such as Klik and Play which allow people to easily create
Windows games (not that I need to make my game run in Windows, but
that's an example of an easy game maker).
Thanks for your replies.
Tim Lambert
You can email me at timothy dot lambert at intel dot com
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
<sp...@spam.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if there are any game
>programming tools/languages/libraries out there that I could use to
>help me.
Well, if you want to go for C, you have DJGPP, a free compile at
http://www.delorie.com . For it, you have Allegro, a game programming
library, also free at: http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/ . If you
need tutorials or documentation, both DJGPP and Allegro are heavily
documented, plus on the Allegro web page you have links to game
programming tutorials. All of this for DOS, but now Allegro is going
for cross-platform msdos-win32-linux support.
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz - gra...@iname.com - http://gradha.infierno.org/
Gogosoftware - http://welcome.to/gogosoftware/
Irv Mullins
>
> I'm thinking of programming a board game (like chess or checkers) as
> programming tools/languages/libraries out there that I could use to
> with using the color text mode for drawing the board and pieces, but
> I might be interested in other things, such as sound effects and music,
> and possibly graphics for the title screen or whatever. Here are some
> things that I would prefer:
>
> 1) It should be free.
>
> 3) It should be easy to program games.
>
> 4) It should be able to produce an executable.
>
> Not a big requirement.
>
> Currently, I'm using Qbasic, and my only gripes with this are the
> inablility to produce an executable (QuickBasic isn't free, remember)
> and the inability to easily produce multi-part harmonies; either you
> get solo notes through the PC speaker or have to learn how to program
> an Adlib/SB to use the Qbasic libraries for such cards.
Download a copy of Euphoria - it's free, runs 20x faster
than QBasic, and all the sound fx and graphics stuff is
either built in or available as a free user-contributed
library. There are also a lot of games with source code
posted in the "archives" and "user-contributions" pages, and
it is very easy to learn,
especially with the help of about 300 users on the Euphoria
listserver at Miami U. (The language developers also
contribute to the list, and you can make suggestions which
may influence the direction the next version will take -
try that with QBasic!)
http://members.aol.com/fileseu
Irv
Alexander Russell
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