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Boot Sector Tic-Tac-Toe (V2)

Developer	Extrarius
Genre	Traditional
Platform	DOS
Downloads	598
About: Tic-Tac-Toe fit to be placed in the boot sector of a floppy. Playable on any 386 or compatible - OS doesn't matter since it can run without one.

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Extrarius GDNet+

Posted - 12/7/2004 3:57:38 PM

I noticed there was a mistake in the WriteTTT batch file that was meant to put the program into the boot sector of a floppy, so I've fixed it and uploaded the correct version.

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Rob Loach Staff

Posted - 12/7/2004 5:20:06 PM

That's halarious.

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jumpjumpjump

Posted - 1/18/2005 2:59:02 PM

I'm too lazy to download, is this in protected mode or real mode?

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Extrarius GDNet+

Posted - 1/18/2005 3:47:00 PM

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Original post by jumpjumpjump
I'm too lazy to download, is this in protected mode or real mode?

Real mode. I doubt its possible to fit a protected mode init AND the tic-tac-toe game (As I have it anyways) in the few bytes available on a boot sector.

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Extrarius GDNet+

Posted - 1/20/2005 9:57:19 PM

Quote:
Original post by Extrarius
I noticed there was a mistake in the WriteTTT batch file that was meant to put the program into the boot sector of a floppy, so I've fixed it and uploaded the correct version.

Apparently the error resurfaced somehow and the zip was reverted to an old version, so I uploaded the fix a second time (hopefully it will stick this time).

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Extrarius GDNet+

Posted - 9/2/2005 9:43:59 PM

I fixed a stupid bug (ShowWinner didn't save AX before calling DrawBoard) and noticed a few places where bytes could be saved so the final DOS executable was reduced in size by 13 bytes and I had enough room in the bootdisk version to extend 'Ext' to ' By Extrarius! ' (the two spaces at the start align it to the beginning of a line if you look at it in a hex editor with 16-character columns).

I had the DOS version to under 400 bytes with a new (much smaller) AI, but it had a bug and I didn't feel like debugging it so I just put the old AI back (minus the 'coin flipper' that would make it randomly select among equally-valued moves).

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cNoob

Posted - 4/16/2006 9:06:57 AM

Nice i ran it using bochs because i dont have a floppy drive on my laptop but it all went well. Keep up the good work.

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