Here you can pick up whatever ANSI C ports I have of old games - both
sources and Linux or DOS executables. Just hold down the shift key and
click on the relevant link.
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Chimaera (51.2 KB) gzipped source
tarball.
A highly unusual "infinite" adventure game written by Chris
Newall. Builds easily with any ANSI C compiler, but remember to link in the
maths library, because the program uses the square root function (i.e.
add -lm on Unix/Linux).
Also provided: a
gzipped Linux executable (0.0 KB) and a
DOS/Windows one (0.0 KB).
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Moo (55.6 KB) gzipped source.
A Moo (a.k.a. Mastermind) supervisor and a very powerful Moo player. I
wrote the first version back in 1977 in Algol68, before porting it to FTN a
few years later. The game allows you to play on you own, watch the player
playing on its own or compete against the player. The algorithm has been
improved in conversion to C (hence the increase in the source size compared to
the FTN version). Should build without much (any?) trouble using any ANSI C
compiler on any platform.
Or just grab a pre-built executable – a
gzipped Linux one (70.3 KB) or a
DOS/Windows one (236.7 KB).
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OX3D (10.3 KB) gzipped source.
An aggressive 3D Noughts & Crosses player, which I developed in 1976. The
player incorporates the knowledge of the three-in-a-plane forcing patterns and
quite spontaneously discovered that plane-forks are deadlier than one would
have thought. It can offer suggestions and can be made to play against
itself.
If you can't be bothered with building it, you can pick up the pre-built,
ready to run DOS/Windows executable (116.1 KB),
instead of the source. OTOH for those who have the sense to use Linux, here
is a gzipped Linux executable (14.0 KB).
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Sumeria (12.3 KB) source.
This is the good old "Govern Ancient Sumeria", also known as
"Hamurabe" , with a 1983 ecology re-write. (The more grain you
leave in stores, the more rats eat and hence breed; the more rats there are
the more likely is the plague to strike -- etc...). Needs to be linked with
the math library (-lm).
And here are the pre-built executables: a
gzipped one for Linux (9.5 KB) and
one for DOS/Windows (115.5 KB).