XPL0 Games - the tiniest games

review from ClifNotes, Apr 2007, permalink Games

Several years ago I found "The XPL0 Programming Language" website. The website tells about this programming language and hosts several games and utilities made using XPL0. My favorite version of Mahjongg is hosted there as well as several other of the tiniest games you may ever find.

I'm hoping you will find these tiny games as amazing as I do. Most games today are measured in megabytes. These games are 1,000 times smaller and are still quite good. They should run on most Windows machines except for the new Vista which does not support a DOS full screen mode.

Here below are a few of the games.

Challenge Matey to a game of chess

A game very similar to Centipede

A 3D Sokoban game

A solitaire game

Dangerously addicting Columns game

Mah Jongg Solitaire

Quote from the website
XPL0 is similar to Pascal. It was created in the mid 70s by Peter J. R. Boyle and the 6502 Group.

Although XPL0 is not mainstream, over the years it has proven to be immensely useful. It has been used to write everything from operating systems to embedded controllers. Since its 6502 days, it has been steadily upgraded and spread to other processors like the 8080, 6800, PDP-10, IBM-360, a couple homebrew machines, 65802, 680x0, PIC, Ubicom, and the 80x86 family used by the IBM-PC. The PC versions can be downloaded from this webpage.

http://www.idcomm.com/personal/lorenblaney/


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