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Are there any games you know of that can be played from a console that is 20 characters by 4 columns?

I'm thinking of some old-school typed games, text-based.

Do you mean 20 characters by 4 rows?

12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890

Most console games I know of assume a bigger display than that. Interactive fiction might be modified for that but I doubt it would support it by default. What system are you trying to run on with such a small display?

Sounds similar to a Texas Instruments TI82/83 calculator. There were quite a few games for that back in the day.

dulsi {l Wrote}:Do you mean 20 characters by 4 rows?

12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890

Most console games I know of assume a bigger display than that. Interactive fiction might be modified for that but I doubt it would support it by default. What system are you trying to run on with such a small display?

Yep, that size display. I recently got a LCD character display and thought it would be fun to see if there was a game that would run on it.

Julius {l Wrote}:Sounds similar to a Texas Instruments TI82/83 calculator. There were quite a few games for that back in the day.

Thankyou for that, it looks very promising.

Ha, I remember that. I actually wrote a Space Invaders clone for the TI-84+. Runs slow as all hell, but works. It even supports high scores.

I still have a copy of that program, but only on paper for some reason (4 pages, 259 lines). I guess I must have deleted the digital copy at some point (I know I used to have it as a .8xp).

Also wrote this much shorter program that... I think was designed to determine if a number is a prime number or not? This one I do have a digital copy of:

https://pastebin.com/yCTs50HD

Ah, TI, where every byte counts and you leave out ending quotes and parentheses to save a few.