Nibbles.BAS

Small game included with DOS 5.0 - with a small bug ;)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• qbasic
• nibbles
• basic
• bug
• dos
• microsoft
• game

[Mai42ator]

No need to download, just type "QBASIC /RUN C:\DOS\NIBBLES.BAS" on your computer.

[Mai42ator]

(just need to have the right operating system, of course)

[ciolamorta]

Well, i burned my early days playin' this game and Gorilla.bas. Now i'm 28 and i'm a computer programmer. :-)

[nonstopdrivel]

I have fond memories of spending hours as a teenager writing a computer-controlled third worm for this game. In terms of nimbleness and making snap decisions, it was much better than any human. But it tended to die easily in later rounds because it lacked foresight and extrapolation (it didn't realize that folding in on itself would kill it). I had to write separate logic for each round. It was a great intellectual challenge for a teen with little else to do.

[redabousserhane]

hhhhhh good

[alfoga]

best game ever... this made me feel nostalgic

[Caligula916]

NIBBLES!!.....i remember playing this on ms-dos when i was younger.

You can also play it on youtube. Pause this video at 0:00 then press the down arrow key then immediately press the left arrow key until you see the loading dots in the middle of the video...then press down and left again to start the game.

Thumbs up if it works!

[NL812]

It is not a bug. It is because modern computers are too fast. 1000 step empty loop was perfect enough on <=80286 to optimize game speed without waiting long, but now it runs for less than 0.005 seconds while TIMER precision is 0.01, so stoptime-starttime = 0 and this is it.

[daveandrews84]

Holy cow that's a "i = 0; while (i < 10000) i++;" sleeper... I remember when coding used to be so much simpler than it is now :)

[tomthenomad]

i want to see money.bas !!!!!!

[rlt152]

I remember playing this on BASIC many many years ago

I always thought that BASIC was an underrated programing language

[veggiet2009]

@nonstopdrivel wow, you got far, I remember changing the colors around and changing the levels, but did get that far

[user99673]

@nonstopdrivel did you try creating an array instead of individual logic statements?

[MarkBurhoe]

cool