pbhenson / childhood

Some old code from when I was really young

These are just a handful of random things I wrote around about 1988-1989. Some are in BASIC (Microsoft QuickBASIC as I recall) and the others are in Borland Turbo Pascal.

DARTS.BAS - a simple dart throwing game

Once upon a time a friend of mine and I wrote a simple Othello clone for the Commodore 128. I lost track of the source code to that one, but all of the following are various ports of it to the PC compatible platform:

EGAHIRES.BAS SWITCH.BAS SWITCH.PAS OTHELLO.BAS

These are some simple Turbo Pascal utilities and convenience functions. One of them is a text window generator which outputs code to be included in a different program that uses the windows. I remember one of my undergraduate classes assigned a project which was similar in that you needed to write a program whose output was a program, and it amazed me how many of my classmates simply could not grasp the concept.

DESIGNW.PAS GRID.PAS IO.PAS QKWNDWS.PAS

WORDSRCH.PAS - a basic word search program utilizing the above

Maybe one of these days enough nostalgia will hit me to warrant setting up a DOSBox instance with QuickBASIC and Turbo Pascal and actually try to run them again...