Tom 7 Radar: Happy birthday Escape!

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Happy birthday Escape! (20 Oct 2006 at 20:53)

Ten years ago in August 1996 I released the (final) "1.0" version of my DOS game Escape. As radar regulars know, I've been working on a modernization of the game for several years now. As a sort of late birthday present I posted the DOS version on the Escape page (I think it wasn't available anywhere since the old AOL page is not working). If you like clunky old QuickBasic programs, PC-speaker sound effects, and low-res graphics, it is now enshrined there forever. Take a look at the screenshots:

The title screen let you choose between 5 different characters to play with, like the "knight", the "office guy", the "redhead lady", "pac man" and "hoodie guy". There were about 100 levels made by me, my family and friends, and a few by students in a class I taught at Eli Whitney Museum about programming. In retrospect most of the levels were pretty crummy; I've learned since then that there are a lot of incredibly smart puzzle makers out there.

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mike (h-66-167-9-63.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 10.20.06 23:08:11

I'm having trouble finding it, what's the "AOL Keyword" for it?

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mpnolan (r75h52.res.gatech.edu) – 10.21.06 00:50:46

No source? :(

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Tom 7 (h-66-167-9-63.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 10.21.06 10:33:12

There's source, but yikes, it's embarrassing...

http://tom7misc.cvs.sourceforge.net/tom7misc/escape/

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Max (c-24-2-139-110.hsd1.mn.comcast.net) – 10.23.06 15:22:52

Many happy returns!

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