CryoGram -- my notion of Cryptogram

WhizCat · Post by **WhizCat** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:44 am

Here's another rewrite, only bigger and fancier than it's predecessors. Of course. We've come a long ways since my original of this genre. It was done in assembly language on a machine that had a golf ball printer rather than a monitor. And the program and its puzzles were stored in punched paper tape. And that was a long time ago.

My last one of this ilk is still around and still running. It too was written in assembly language, but for a color-but-text-mode-only DOS dog. Oddly enough, my wife still plays this one occasionally on our POS machine at the store (which is an old PC/XT).

This cryptograms program includes 199 puzzles and as many frills as I could think of that would adapt to the fun world of Just BASIC. I've received scant feedback on my last contribution, but I'm hoping at least a few will enjoy this one. My granddaughter gave it two-thumbs-up, by the way.

WhizCat · Post by **WhizCat** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 11:13 am

Just learned that this program works correctly only when screen is set for 640x480. (Which is where I keep mine all the time, BTW.)

Am working on a solution for problem when run in 800x600 and higher modes.

Another gotcha that must be learned the hard way, apparently.

WhizCat · Post by **WhizCat** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:10 pm

Found my dumb mistake. Gotta watch the fine print better, right?

I had used 0 for X and Y for the upper left corner coordinates. Changed X and Y to equal 1 and all's well now. Naturally.

Post by **JanetTerra** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:11 pm

Good thing my Christmas wrapping was finished before I downloaded this game. This game is quite addictive! Thanks, Tom. 18 puzzles solved and 181 to go! Woohoo!
Janet

WhizCat · Post by **WhizCat** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:07 pm

Glad you liked it Janet.

You noticed the MORE.TXT, no doubt. At a point I may add some more puzzles to the little library. Or you can, maybe, and share with the rest of us?

Tom