C++ source code: labyrinth game

Hello there ...

I haven't logged in since, er let's see, January 27th 2006 02:05 pm. Hope you guys are doing great.

I'll first introduce myself quickly, then we'll get to the reason of this post.

Well, I'm 24 today and I'm from the era when HACKERS.COM was still up and running. Whatever the hell ever happened to that website but for those who don't know, hackers.com was a dream-come-true to newbies. Anyone knows anything about it's sudden disapperance?

Programming was one of my favourite hobbies and in, I think, 2004, I came up with this game written entirely with Borland C++, that I called 'Labyrinth'.

You can download it here : http://www.box.net/shared/brkc67hlbi
... And the source code here : http://www.box.net/shared/qa5ja35oju

This is the very fist time I'm putting the source code online and anyone can freely play with it, re-upload it etc. No problem.

At the time of writing i had a 200 MHz CPU Pentium II and I had, my god, a bad time trying to figure out how to introduce a 'delay' in a program in order to make different 'creatures' in the game move simultaneously. Didn't find out how and I still don't know how to do this. I couldn't care less because I'm no longer in the programming stuff (I'm doing medical studies...).

But if anyone knows how to do this please feel free to modify the code and compile it again.

As a consequence, I had to introduce a kind of 'artificial delay' whereby I used a counter to increment to a certain large number. This took processor time and adequately introduced a delay on my Pentium II. So if you run the program on a today's computer, the 'creatures' move FAST because of increase in processing speed ...

Anyway, enjoy, and let me know what you think.

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Thanks guys !

Hi,

This is the Wayback Machine's entry for hackers.com:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.hackers.com

Around 2004 they changed their name to ITfreaks.com, and subsequently seem to have disappeared.

:)

Yeah right.

Just download this code and run it on your machine...

It's a really cool maze game!

Sorry to be cynical.

Steve

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Originally Posted by nihil

Hi,

This is the Wayback Machine's entry for hackers.com:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.hackers.com

Around 2004 they changed their name to ITfreaks.com, and subsequently seem to have disappeared.

:)

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Oh I see ...
Thanks.

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And by the way, thanks a lot Steve Milner for your good humour. Sorry for being cynical.

Well, I guess that I am cynical as well, although in a different way.

The vast majority of malware these days is written to make money, not out of malice. You write the stuff to either use or sell, not to post for free on a security website;)

Anyway, I submitted it to this online scanning site:

http://www.virustotal.com/

42/42 Antivirus and malware products found nothing wrong with it. I also ran Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D for good measure. I will give it a try on a PI/133/192Mb and a PII/266/128Mb (Win98SE & Win 2000 SP4, respectively)............it doesn't sit too well on a Pentium Core Duo.......... the little beasties behave as if they are on steroids! :eek:

Cheers.

Oh no ...

Okay guys, let me explain. I think you need some explanation.

I wrote this piece of code as a teenager just for FUN. I wanted to create a Maze game without using any elaborate graphics mode (just plain DOS textmode) and see to what level I could take it just by writing in very simple beginner's C++.

I came across AntiOnline during the days it was called AntiCode. And because I have never ever contributed anything so far to the online community, and that at the same time I found this game and source code on a CD that I burned a long time ago that somewhat got lost, I thought, oh well, let me post this online so that it can be of some kind of help to newbies interested in C++ programming. That's all.

There's no malicious code whatsoever in it. I have no interest at all in programming at the moment as I am at the end of my medical studies in France. That's it, tada.

Better to run it in full-screen mode. Yes, this is not possible under Windows Vista.

Yes, the beasts run wild on the new PCs, this is what I was pointing out I couldn't find a solution for at the time of writing. Basically, I wrote this alone and have never had any kind of computer studies at school whatsoever on C++.

Phew, anymore explanation ? :D

Hey by the way, there is a cheat in it. By pressing the '|' button once you become invincible. Press it again to cancel.
This is not the letter 'l' of the alphabet but the C++ OR operator : ||
Got it?
So how is it on pentium II ?

No explanations required old boy :)

As a moderator, it is my duty to check links and attachments........naturally, yours was perfectly fine, apart from the beasties being way too damn fast for an old fart like me when run on a P4 or Athlon XP+

I now have it on a 3.5" floppy so will try it on the PI/PII/PIII collection........if that doesn't work, I shall have to disturb the spiders inhabiting my more venerable kit.

I actually have working computers older than yourself :eek: it is a hobby of mine......... a bit like people mess with old bikes or classic cars?

:D

EDIT:

Lunch at the moment..........will test it this evening and report back

Hi,

Recently I came across a DOS emulator freeware on the net. The best of them actually : DosBox. Download the latest version 0.73 from http://www.dosbox.com/

And yes, the game works perfectly with this ... :)

You wouldn't happen to be Ken Silverman, would you? The guy who wrote Ken's labyrinth in the early ninties?

No! I'm not THAT good at programming !! :)

Hey thanks for mentioning Ken's Labyrinth by the way, I didn't know about it. I'll download the game coz I like to play OLD dos games ... ;)

Let's me just drop by a cool website not many of you might know about ...

http://www.hornet.org/

You can download plenty of source code and more good stuff from the Code Section.
Great database.

Enjoy.

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it doesn't sit too well on a Pentium Core Duo.......... the little beasties behave as if they are on steroids!

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If things are running unusually fast then its because its a 16bit program. I imagine you could set its priority to the lowest setting in the task manager. Its something your going to have to get used to when 32bit processors are completely and fully phased out.

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Originally Posted by The-Spec

If things are running unusually fast then its because its a 16bit program. I imagine you could set its priority to the lowest setting in the task manager. Its something your going to have to get used to when 32bit processors are completely and fully phased out.

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Well, not really because it is a 16-bit program ... Like I said, it's because I did not know how to write a timed game that runs at the same 'speed' on all computers so I used an incrementing counter that sucks on processor time in order to introduce an artificial delay.

No doubt, it thus runs faster on faster computers.

One solution to play this game and other old dos games is to use DosBox (www.dosbox.net), an x86 emulator.

Try Dungeon Crawl. It has a port for DOS / Windows.