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- Racer for OS/2 Version 1.0
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- 12 August 1995
- By Antonino Iannella
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- This is a small prototype for an OS/2 game idea I have.
- I got the idea from a program I typed in, from a
- magazine printed about ten years ago. The original
- program was written in BASIC (from Microsoft, uugh!),
- for the Tandy TRS-80. I've always liked it's concept.
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- The aim is to keep your car away from the white lines;
- the roadside.
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- Racer is simply a text-based car on a road, so it moves
- quite fast. The text symbol in the middle is your 'car'.
- (Sorry about it being a long, white streak.) Press the
- left or right arrow keys to make it move left
- or right. <CTRL><S> pauses it. Press 'q' at any
- time to stop. Crashing the 'car' into the sides
- also ends the ride.
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- My immediate plan for this 'piece de resistance' is to
- port it to the PM shell and turn it into a graphics-based
- action extravaganza, like a video arcade game.
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- I compiled it with EMX/GCC, so one may need the EMX
- Runtime Library to use the executable code. The source
- code is provided so others may compile it themselves, or
- use it freely as long as I am acknowledged and informed
- about it... Bill Gates and all Microsoft employees and
- their families must each pay me $1000 if they use it.
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- Please tell me by Email what you think of the project...
- I'll take any opinions, criticisms, suggestions for
- improvement, etc, and especially encouragement!
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- **** **** * **** Operate at a higher level.
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- * * * * * Mr Antonino Iannella
- * * **** * * Computer Systems Engineering
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- **** **** * ****** 9308390r@lux.levels.unisa.edu.au
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- General Application Error in Module MS:WIN-95.
- This version will now self-destruct!