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Off topic, but don't go too far overboard - after all, we are watching...heh.
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Board at Work? Play Pac Man in Excel

Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:36 pm

http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/

I can't imagine the pain of coding each cell to make something like this work. LOL
:wall:

Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:05 pm

what language is it written in.

Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:38 pm

In VBA.

When I was in College in 1981, a guy wrote a Pac-Man in APL on a mainframe. It played on paper terminals (the entire game board was printed at each move). The guy was generally considered an idiot. :freak:

Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:37 pm

Originally posted by Chacal
In VBA.

When I was in College in 1981, a guy wrote a Pac-Man in APL on a mainframe. It played on paper terminals (the entire game board was printed at each move). The guy was generally considered an idiot. :freak:


No joke, like every dot moved by pacman the thing printed out? No wonder he was considered an idiot.

Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:57 am

He was eating through boxes of paper like Pac-Man through dots. :P

Actually, You had to type a letter for each Pac-Man movement. Say you wantd Pac-Man to go Up, you typed "U" [Enter].

A program called "U" then ran, updated the gameboard matrix in memory and printed it on paper.

I swear the guy worked dozens of hours on his program. He was so proud of it.
Flunked his degree too, we were in biochemistry, not computer science.
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