Gorillas (computer game)
| Gorillas / GORILLA.BAS | |
|---|---|
| Studio | IBM |
| Publisher | IBM |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1991 |
| platform | PC-compatible DOS , macOS |
| genre | Artillery game |
| Game mode | Multiplayer |
| copy protection | No |
Gorillas (also known as source code - filename GORILLA.BAS known) is a computer game , the one with the MS-DOS shipped versions since 5.0 and in 1991 from IBM was published Corporation. In the artillery game, two gorillas throw explosive bananas at each other over a city skyline . At the beginning the players can adjust the gravity of the planet, as well as the angle and the speed for each throw , which have to be chosen according to the skyline, gravity and the wind strength.
The program distributed in the QBasic source code was REMLINE (a program for removing line numbers from old BASIC programs), NIBBLES (a snake game) and MONEY (a very simple financial calculator ) and a demo of the QBasic programming language. The QBasic interpreter had been part of the operating system installation since MS-DOS version 5.0 and replaced the older GW-Basic .
Web links
- Video recording uploaded on September 17th, 2007
- Download the original source code ( Memento of February 2, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) of the version from IBM Corporation (archived)
- Download the original source code from Microsoft
- Gorillas.js - Open source web browser-based version of Gorillas in JavaScript ( source )
- Free Android Gorillas in the Playstore - Android version of Gorillas
- Gorilla for CP / M - Porting Gorillas to Turbo Modula-2 for CP / M
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contents of the MS-Dos 5.0 system diskettes . Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ↑ Gorillas Source Code ( Memento from February 2, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ MS-DOS 5 (included games). MobyGames , accessed June 22, 2016 .