DOS ain't dead

Although probably not new to people familiar with rather esoteric programming languages, I found this one by Nils M Holm: https://www.t3x.org/t3x/#t3x7

Three games (Sokoban, Mahjong, artillery) and three tools (menu-driven command-line interface, database, bitmap editor) for DOS can be found at: https://www.t3x.org/DOS/

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> Although probably not new to people familiar with rather esoteric
> programming languages, I found this one by Nils M Holm:
> https://www.t3x.org/t3x/#t3x7

I've vaguely seen it (and him in various newsgroups) but haven't tried it yet. I probably have the older version on an old hard drive somewhere.

Just FYI, Simtel.net /misclang/ had the much older version from year 2000 (t3x5cbin.zip, t3x5csrc.zip).

> Three games (Sokoban, Mahjong, artillery) for DOS can be found at:
> https://www.t3x.org/DOS/

Mah-jongg ("Nah-jongg"), as he calls it. Seems fun enough. (I've played more of the XPL0 DOS version in recent years, among other versions.)

But there seems to be a display bug (empty text box) when starting a new ('N') game or exiting, not sure why. Otherwise, seems mostly sane.

I haven't rebuilt it, but apparently he's using TC 2.01 (freeware) and TASM (not freeware). Shouldn't be too hard to convert one .ASM file to something else. The included makefile is also suboptimal (and tabs are unnecessary).

> > Three games (Sokoban, Mahjong, artillery) for DOS can be found at:
> > https://www.t3x.org/DOS/
>
> Mah-jongg ("Nah-jongg"), as he calls it. Seems fun enough. (I've played
> more of the XPL0 DOS version in recent years, among other versions.)
>
> But there seems to be a display bug (empty text box) when starting a new
> ('N') game or exiting, not sure why. Otherwise, seems mostly sane.
>
> I haven't rebuilt it, but apparently he's using TC 2.01 (freeware) and TASM
> (not freeware). Shouldn't be too hard to convert one .ASM file to something
> else. The included makefile is also suboptimal (and tabs are unnecessary).

I already bugged Nils to release his BASYL II compiler used for the GunBlaster artillery game. -- He didn't promise anything, because documentation is very incomplete.

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