These programs were written by me before I had started studying Computer Science,
so I created them without any formal education on the subject. Also, there was mostly
no World Wide Web at the time, so the knowledge to build them was gathered from books
and lots of experimenting and tinkering together with friends.
These programs are designed for the Microsoft DOS operating system. They
used to run on PCs with Intel's 80486 processor, or even older machines.
Some were actually used on the legendary 8086 processor. Many don't require
a hard disk, or even a mouse, and of course run in
text mode.
Quadra ???
QuAdrA showing a sample record
- TODO:
- a digital organizer
(Exhibit is being prepared for display)
Quots ???
Quots displays a quotation
- TODO:
- displays quotations from configurable files, fast as lightning
(Exhibit is being prepared for display)
Scratch ???
Scratch is wiping out some test data
- TODO:
- a tool for permanently deleting sensitive data from a disk
You could even leave a message on the wiped-out disk space
for the data recovery company to read
Jenkey ???
The DOS editor EDIT showing the Jenkey config file
- TODO:
- a shortcut key manager for DOS, published in the magazine
DOS international 5/1993, p. 198 ff. The program's source code
fits into less than 1024 bytes
Battlezone ???
The Battlezone command post
- TODO:
- a game of strategy, a bit like "Risk"; uses several
mouse cursor shapes created with MCEdit
ZEditor ???
Testing a new character in ZEditor
- TODO:
- a tool for creating custom characters for the DOS text mode
This could be used for creating entire
custom fonts for DOS.
X-Tension ???
Yellow has just won a round
- TODO:
- an othello game clone
MCEdit ???
MCEdit allowed direct editing of the cursor and screen masks
- TODO:
- a tool for graphically creating new mouse cursor shapes
Arkadoid ???
Beginning of a new Arkadoid level
Completed Level 6 - yihaa!
- Purpose:
- The famous game improved!
- Technology:
- Turbo Pascal 4.0, DOS 3.x, CGA Graphics
- License:
- Freeware
- Highlights:
- Adjustable worm speed allows playing this game on machines of different
speeds, in theory even Pentiums. Uses the legendary CGA graphics card, which
could display 16 different colors at the same time in 40x25 character text mode.
A monochrome mode is available if needed by the physical display.
- Status:
- Complete and stable
