Board at Work? Play Pac Man in Excel

by **the_slog** » 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:

by **SilverSurfer** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:05 pm

what language is it written in.

by **Chacal** » 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:

by **Xenius** » 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.

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

by **Chacal** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:57 am

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

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.

Board at Work? Play Pac Man in Excel

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