my friend has one of those really old computers and we were wondering since games were made for them can we program games for it? we couldn''t make any fancy games but it would be start

Perhaps you could tell us what kind of "old computer" it is. Amiga, Commodore, Atari, and TI99/4A come to mind, but that was my childhood...

-fel, who is back from Japan btw. *grin*

Oh c''mon, it''s not an old computer unless you had to program it with a soldering iron. ($10 gift certificate to amazon for anyone who can figure out the reference.)

Seriously, if it''s a DOS box, you can program for it from Windows just fine. Just make sure that your compiler is set to compile true blue 16-bit programs. I don''t think any modern compilers do anymore, except maybe Borland C++. (Not C++ Builder.) If it''s a Linux box, you don''t need to do anything special except make sure it runs fast enough (and of course compile it under linux). If it''s a Mac.... well, I can''t help you there.

That 70''s Show - They thought that pong was too easy. In an attempt to make the game hader, they made the paddles shorter using a soldering iron.

Is that $10 canadian or american?

soldering iron? wow..and here I was thinking how much of a pain it was to switch in the startup code on that altair clone..

As for programming on old computers..sure it can be done..I''ve written numerous pong, breakout, and pacman clones on a number of machines..the hardest part is simply finding a compiler for whatever particular chipset...

it''s the kind that takes thoes black disk and i''m not sure what kind it is but when it first comes on it says IBM so i guess it''s in IBM computer

Sounds like an old XT with 5 1/4 inch drives. Those aren''t that old. The older you make them, the older you make me. =)

Tim

can we get a compiler for computers that old or get the disk for graphics..i''m not sure if they even make those anymore i think it''s from 86-87

that was..i wish there was an auto log-in


Edited by - felisandria on 3/26/00 4:20:17 PM

quote: Original post by WORF
That 70''s Show - They thought that pong was too easy. In an attempt to make the game hader, they made the paddles shorter using a soldering iron.

Is that $10 canadian or american?

Nope. Pre-dates That 70''s Show by quite a bit. Relates to Fortran.
And it would be $10 American.

I think they have old DJGPP versions that will compile for 16-bit DOS. I''m not sure about that. Otherwise you might be able to find a version of Turbo C++ for DOS or Microsoft C for DOS in a bargain bin. However, some of the Borland C++ for Win95 would still output Win16 binaries.