I’m doing some spring cleaning of my files, and while browsing a forgotten partition on an old hard drive, I came across an ancient archive directory containing a few megabytes of miscellaneous source code. It’s dating back to my late teens, when I got a kick out of programming simple DOS games in Turbo Pascal. Of course, I couldn’t resist trying to run some of the old programs in DOSBox. Here’s a screenshot of my unfinished Space Invaders game:
This brings so many memories. I remember my ambition back then was to code the game completely from scratch, not using any libraries — I wrote the graphics code, keyboard handling, sprites and such all by myself in Turbo Pascal and some X86 assembly. This taught me a lot about programming, the X86 architecture, and DOS — most of this stuff is now obsolete and pretty much useless (especially when you make a living as a web developer), but it was really fun back then.
Hmm… I wonder if it would take long to port the game to Linux…
