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DOMINION

Floppy disk

It's a door game I was hacking on when I was in highschool in 1996 (Grade 11).

Never finished it... but hey. Here it is, in all of its Turbo Pascal glory.

A bit of history

The best I can remember it anyways.

I wrote much of this game for my Grade 11 computer science class. Though I don't actually remember learning a lot of actual comp. sci.

At the time a couple of us ran a small BBS system from some old hardware we scrapped together around the highschool. I remember begging our principal for a 14.4kbps model so we can serve our users better. The 9600bps we had was quite slow even by 1996 standards. She managed to help us out with hundred dollars out of our tiny school budget for a 28.8kbps model.

It's taken me almost two decades to appreciate that. Damn.

Anyways, we ran this little BBS called the Infinity BBS. It was one of three BBS systems that we had in Prince Rupert. The other were ran by two friends of mine. One, the Junkyard BBS would be my first experience with email. Of course, not knowing anybody outside of Prince Rupert, I didn't have anybody to email.

To be as popular as the Junkyard BBS was our highschool dreams. I mean, Keith had TWO phone lines, multiple CD ROMS of content and email (well sort of). Our little BBS ran out of a back room of the school's computer lab.

Actually, it started out in the lab itself. As word got out about our little BBS the random modem ping, boop, wrrrs throughout the day would interrupt the class. That gave us the purest form of geek joy that I can remember.

About that time is when I started writing Dominion. It was to be like Legend of the Red Dragon, Usurper and Trade Wars 2000 which were so popular at the time. I never quite finished it however, spending way too much time on getting the cursor to blink green and print like a slow retro-futuristic terminal.

Regardless, here it is. Finding code from your childhood is as nostalgic as finding old vacation photos. Enjoy.

The .ANS files

These require the awesome TheDraw program to open and edit these files. Unfortunatly it's DOS based but works great in DosBox.

Here's what they look like. Warning awesome programmer ANSI art ahead!

MENU0.ans

MENU0.ANS

MENU1.ans

MENU1.ANS

MENU2.ans

MENU2.ANS

MENU3.ans

MENU3.ANS

MENU4.ans

MENU4.ANS

MENU5.ans

MENU5.ANS

MENU6.ans

MENU6.ANS

MENU7.ans

MENU7.ANS

MENU8.ans

MENU8.ANS

License

See LICENSE.txt

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