Nibbles and Gorilla

[TheManuel]

If you recognize those names, you are probably as old as I.

Back when I was in college (seems like a long time ago), I used to play two quickbasic games named nibbles and gorilla.  These are still available all over the web in their original quickbasic form but those can't be played as is on modern computers.

Does anyone know of any faithful versions playable on modern systems?

Thanks.

[jban4us]

dosBox + the qbasic programs, I have gorillaz. I actually played it the other day.

just download dosBox (a dos emulator), run it, mount your drive, and run the programs

works great, and I'm on a mac, so that's saying a lot

[TheManuel]

Thank you.
Do you use a qbasic compiler or pre-compiled version?
I downloaded a nibbles.exe and get a division by zero error.

[TheManuel]

I found source file for nibbles that had the error corrected, compiled into an exe and ran it and it works but it is very unresponsive to keyboard commands.
Maybe I'll try to find a remake of sorts.

[jban4us]

I don't have nibbles, but for gorillas i'm using the "deluxe edition"

It comes with the .bas source file, a .bat to run it, and qbasic.exe. Looking at the batch file it appears to be running the qbasic interpreter and handing it the source.

Maybe there is a version that is just source?

[TheManuel]

OK.
I'll keep toying with it.

Thanks for your help.

[jban4us]

No problem. If you have any luck make sure to post up how you did it. I plan on putting some dos games on my cab (when it's done) and I'm sure I'll run into this.