https://github.com/uwekeim/atoms

Sources of my computer game "Atoms" back from 1995
https://github.com/uwekeim/atoms

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Sources of my computer game "Atoms" back from 1995

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/uwekeim/atoms
• Owner: UweKeim
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2019-03-09T12:41:17.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-03-17T10:27:08.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-08T22:28:50.387Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: game-2d, game-development, game-engine-2d, games
• Language: Pascal
• Homepage: https://youtu.be/gdbhJfQu5CE
• Size: 6.49 MB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Atoms

Back in 1995, [I](https://uwe.co) was 22, living in the south of Germany, and was studying at our local university. I had programmed a computer game in my spare time based on [the game "Atomix"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomix_(video_game)) for MS-DOS in Turbo Pascal and X86 Assembler. 

[![YouTube video](images/atoms-youtube.png)](https://youtu.be/gdbhJfQu5CE)

[See YouTube video here](https://youtu.be/gdbhJfQu5CE)

## Screenshots

Following are some screenshots of the game.

The splash/loading screen:

![Image](images/atoms-screenshot-2.png)

Level one in the game:

![Image](images/atoms-screenshot-5.png)

Level two in the game:

![Image](images/atoms-screenshot-6.png)

Asking the user whether he wants to quit:

![Image](images/atoms-screenshot-3.png)

The highscore board:

![Image](images/atoms-screenshot-4.png)

The external setup/configuration application, made with [Turbo Vision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision).

![Image](images/atoms-screenshot-1.png)

Back then in the 1990s it was really fun to develop the game.

## Running the game

I recently made the game runnable again by installing it in a [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/) virtual machine with MS-DOS 6.22. 

I had to patch the executables because of a bug in the Turbo Pascal runtime/compiler for faster processors. See [this german c't article](https://www.heise.de/ct/hotline/Nicht-schon-wieder-Runtime-Error-200-307662.html) about details of the **Runtime Error 200**. Download the patching tool as "ctbppat.zip" from [this location](https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/c-t-Systeminfo-2859100.html).

To play the game, locate the VirtualBox image in the "vm" sub folder and run it in VirtualBox.

Inside the MS-DOS machine, the game is located in the folder **"C:\uwekeim\atoms"**. Start the **"atoms.exe"** executable.

## Additional information

See [this file for additional documentation](sources/ATOMIX.DOC) about the program and some cheats (all in German only).