Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 183 posts

Re: Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS

#4

Post by screensquid »

Playable here: http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/donk...

"The above simulation is configured for a clock speed of 4.77Mhz, with 64Kb of RAM and a CGA display, using the original IBM PC Model 5150 ROM BIOS and CGA font ROM. This configuration also includes a predefined state, with PC-DOS 1.0 already booted and DONKEY.BAS ready to run.

And now that PCx86 automatically saves all your changes (subject to the limits of your browser’s local storage), you can even close the browser in the middle of a game of DONKEY, and the next time you load this page, your progress (and the donkey) will be perfectly restored."

Re: Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS

#5

Post by adrianratnapala »

I never played or even saw Donkey. Too young.

But I learned to program by playing and modifying Microsoft Nibbles -- which is still my favourite snake game. And possibly my favourite Microsoft product.

And QBasic is still the only IDE that I ever really liked. Although there are some newer ones that I respect.

Re: Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS

#6

Post by godzillabrennus »

screensquid wrote: post #4

Playable here: http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/donk... "The above simulation is configured for a clock speed of 4.77Mhz, with 64Kb of RAM and a CGA display, using the original IBM PC Model 5150 ROM BIOS and CGA font ROM. This configuration also includes a predefined state, with PC-DOS 1.0 already booted and DONKEY.BAS ready to run. And now that PCx86 automatically saves all your changes (subje…

I'm disappointed that my iPhone can't drive the car because Apple didn't put directional keys on the onscreen keyboard.

Re: Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS

#7

Post by vmarsy »

pyromine wrote: post #2

Here's a wiki link[0] for anyone else that didn't know what they were looking at. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONKEY.BAS

> "We were surprised to see that the comments at the top of the game proudly proclaimed the authors: Bill Gates and Neil Konzen."

This is odd that these comments aren't in the github source code, is it missing something? Why does it starts at line 940?

  940 REM The IBM Personal Computer Donkey
  950 REM Version 1.10 (C)Copyright IBM Corp 1981, 1982
  960 REM Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM

Re: Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS

#9

Post by an_account »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #6
screensquid wrote: post #4

Playable here: http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/donk... "The above simulation is configured for a clock speed of 4.77Mhz, with 64Kb of RAM and a CGA display, using the original IBM PC Model 5150 ROM BIOS and CGA font ROM. This configuration also includes a predefined state, with PC-DOS 1.0 already booted and DONKEY.BAS ready to run. And now that PCx86 automatically saves all your changes (subje…

I'm disappointed that my iPhone can't drive the car because Apple didn't put directional keys on the onscreen keyboard.

spacebar works (it's the only key needed).

Re: Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS

#10

Post by Artoemius »

vmarsy wrote: post #7
pyromine wrote: post #2

Here's a wiki link[0] for anyone else that didn't know what they were looking at. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONKEY.BAS

> "We were surprised to see that the comments at the top of the game proudly proclaimed the authors: Bill Gates and Neil Konzen." This is odd that these comments aren't in the github source code, is it missing something? Why does it starts at line 940? 940 REM The IBM Personal Computer Donkey 950 REM Version 1.10 (C)Copyright IBM Corp 1981, 1982 960 REM Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM

> The first version of DONKEY.BAS was released in 1981, followed by version 1.10 in 1982

This is the improved 1982 version.

Post reply on HN