Below is a list of my older creations, kept here for sentimental reasons.
The following programs are FREEWARE, all I ask is that you give credit where credit is due, and note that I can not be held accountable for any damage that the below programs may cause.
Bacteria (Quick Basic)
Bacteria QB is an artificial life simulator that I wrote in QuickBASIC a while ago. There are 14 different types of bacteria ranging from 1 (blue) to 14 (light yellow). The bacteria’s type number is multiplied by 30 to get its life span. So the blue bacteria (type 1) have a life span of 30 cycles (30 * 1). During its life span the bacteria will try to spilt into 2 more bacteria. However it can not split if there is too many bacteria. The bacteria spilts about 3 times during its life. An important note, is if a bacteria lands on top of another bacteria of a different type it is eaten. Also, the bacteria have no sense of direction, and wander around randomly.
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Drive Checker
Drive Checker is a small program that checks if there is a disk in the floppy drive. If a disk is detected then the computer will beep until either the user removes the disk from the drive or they hit f12. Why would you want to use Drive Checker? Well at University I know alot of people who have lost their disks because they have left them in the drive after logging off the computer.
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Eyes
Eyes is a small program that displays a pair of eyes in your system tray (seen in picture). Depending on your current mouse pointer position depends on which direction the eyes look, and leaving the mouse cursor in one place for too long will cause them to fall asleep!.
Please note: Eyes was written in Visual Basic 5.0 so you will also need to get the Visual Basic 5.0 runtimes.
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Jiggle
Jiggle is a small app that moves the mouse cursor about randomly in small increments. What’s the point of it? Well a friend wanted a program to move the cursor about when he wasn’t using the computer.
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Linegame
The Linegame is a little game I was working on during my first semester of University. It’s based on light cycles (from the movie Tron) where you control a line and try not to crash into anything. There are a couple of different powerups that give your line special abilities such as speed. Also there are computer opponents who aren’t that clever but are really good at collecting stuff and not crashing (so look out).
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Mazed
A university computing assignment gone horribly wrong! No actually it’s a simple maze program that generates a random maze then proceeds to slowly solve it showing the route taken. Quite fascinating to watch.
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NetChecker
NetChecker is a tiny utility designed to help troubleshoot networking problems. Just run NETCHK.EXE and the current machines running NetChecker on the network will be listed.
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Paddle war
Paddle war is a break out game that I made a while back. It supports network play using IPX or you could try and take on the unbeatable AI. Unfortunately it gets a bit boring as the ball only bounces at right angles.
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People
Falling People People is a small useless program I wrote quite a while ago. Little stickmen fall from the top of the window and pile up along the bottom… There is one major drawback though, the more stickmen on the screen at once, the slower it goes (it’s to do with the collision detection). So if you like downloading useless programs try People.
Please note: People was written in Visual Basic 3.0 so you will also need to get the Visual Basic 3.0 runtimes.
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