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Toot

Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-12-13 at 08:28

Zomg, look what I found! I was only 16 when I released the game on THE national computer mag BBS.

This glorious 256 color MCGA game was written in Turbo Pascal and I never figured out how to do raw keyboard input, so the controls were a bit cumbersome; keys for starting running and a separate key for stopping. There's also no double buffering, so you can see some flickering when the sprites draw their background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6rxFeMiNbI

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Written by FRACTiLE Games on 2024-12-13 at 08:59

@markuslatvala It's weird that I don't remember ever playing this. Perhaps I've just forgotten because I used to try every possible free game I could find back then.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-12-13 at 09:01

Incidentally I didn't remember it had so many features 😅

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Written by Kimmo Lahtinen on 2024-12-13 at 09:03

@markuslatvala Niiiiiiiice. A few years too late so that I would had tried it, I used to host a website for Finnish games in the nineties and would "review" everything I could possibly find made locally.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-12-13 at 09:12

@gimblll Earlier stuff I never uploaded. Mainly because we only had a very expensive dial-up, but also because the games sucked 😅

Too bad ToolBook died away; I made a lot smaller Flash-like games with that.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-12-13 at 09:14

@gimblll I feel so old now 👴

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Written by Kimmo Lahtinen on 2024-12-13 at 09:31

@markuslatvala Old we are. Old. My early stuff is all lost too. I did something super simple C64 basic and then Turbo Pascal too, but released nothing until ~'99. I managed to find one page of the website from web archive, but unfortunately none of the archives etc. work. https://web.archive.org/web/19970808155833/http://www.sci.fi/~kimmol/reviews/index.htm

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Written by FRACTiLE Games on 2024-12-13 at 09:52

@gimblll @markuslatvala My oldest game I still have source code for is this worm racing game from 1994, written in QBasic.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-12-13 at 10:06

@fractilegames @gimblll Wow! Very impressive for something written in QBasic 🤩

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Written by Kimmo Lahtinen on 2024-12-13 at 11:34

@fractilegames @markuslatvala Very cooooool!

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