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This was a hangman game in GW-Basic. It was the messiest code I've ever written. 38k lines for a simple 3 letter only hangman game.
by excid3 15y ago
This was a hangman game in GW-Basic. It was the messiest code I've ever written. 38k lines for a simple 3 letter only hangman game.
- nitrogen 15y agoWow, that is indeed impressive. I admire the determination it must have taken to get to 38000 lines of code for a three letter game. Was this text-based or graphical (I can't remember -- did gwbasic even support anything beyond basic CGA video modes?)? Edit: Wait, was that BASIC line numbers reaching to 38000, or 38000 actual individual lines?
- excid3 15y agoErm sorry, it was a 38k source file of text. I was actually hard coding everything because I didn't understand it. the whole screen would get printed out (without any sort of looping) each time you guessed a letter. GW Basic did let you do basic graphics, I eventually got around to emulating a side scroller at one point. Obviously it was just the foreground, but it was quite a lot of fun.