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# 2025-11-27 - What Fools These Mortals |
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Recently i discovered a fun mini game and NetHack spin-off. It was |
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written in Python in 2003. I translated it to BASIC, specifically |
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QBASIC.EXE. Consequently the game can run on an 8086 & 640 KB RAM |
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which i verified in an emulator. Coding for QBASIC.EXE feels very |
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constraining in comparison to FreeBASIC, which supports convenient |
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features such as OOP. To me this counts as a form of "code golf". |
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This runs fine in DOSBox. |
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What Fools These Mortals version 1.1 |
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The .zip file contains two versions: fools.bat and fools.exe. |
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* fools.bat requires QBASIC.EXE |
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* fools.exe requires an 80386 or better processor. |
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QBASIC.EXE |
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I have other fun NetHack related downloads: |
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CHRHACK |
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DawnHack for DOS |
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Illustrated NetHack Guidebook |
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tags: retrocomputing |
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