The Koesters | dan1son.net

The following programs were mostly written during my high school days at Oakville Senior High. Most of them were written on a 486 sx25 so they might run as though they were written on a machine of that speed. Other ones were written later for college projects and/or just for fun. Enjoy them... the puzzle games are pretty decent if you ask me.

Oh and if you want to compile them, they require Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS.

• Graphics drivers:  Any of the graphic programs below require these... they include the graphics driver and the fonts drivers.

• Checkers:  This was the game I was working on when I graduated high school, it isn't quite complete as of yet.  Save games/restore games work, the game works quite well...

• Tetris:  This is a clone of tetris for the gameboy. It runs on any speed machine, even has the graphics drivers built into the exe (this was done in college). It's a nice game... I could still add some useful help information, but anyone should be able to figure out what's going on... It has high scores, and even the exact scoring algorithm as the original.

• Insane Game:  This is a clone of "Same Game" or "Insane Game" for the Texas Instruments calculators.  I felt like making a puzzle game, so I wrote this.  It was done Junior year.  This is basically the first real program I wrote.  The code is somewhat dirty... but it gets the job done.

• Breakme:  This is a block breaking type game.  It was one of the first things I did senior year, basically to play with collision detection.  This game will probably run INSANELY fast on anything except a 486 sx25, so that's just a pre warning.  This game has one quite large bug.  Whenever you hit in between 2 blocks from the bottom it thinks you hit the side so it goes right through them... I would have to rewrite the entire detection algo, so I decided to leave it alone.

• Pong:  This was made in 2 days worth of class periods, 2.5 hours, as a bet.  This game will run EXTREMELY fast on any computer.

• Prime number finder:  I wrote this program for the heck of it.  I wanted to write some math programs and this sounded kind of fun.  It comes with a 500k prime number list.  When you run it, it'll continue where it left off.  It runs nice on a real computer.

• Quadratic Equation solver:  This too was just for the heck of it.  I was curious to see if I could write something that gave rational numbers.