Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

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A browser port of the 1981 IBM PC game DONKEY.BAS for its 45th anniversary.

A browser-based recreation of DONKEY.BAS, the 1981 IBM PC classic that shipped with early PC DOS as a demo of color graphics and sound in BASICA. Written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen, the game has players switch lanes to avoid a donkey. The port replicates original CGA gameplay in JavaScript.

What commenters are saying

The thread centers on nostalgia for early BASIC programming and discussion of emulation fidelity. Commenters note collision detection bugs in the original code (line 1750). A commenter shares a QBasic-core emulator project that runs the original DONKEY.BAS faithfully. Technical discussion covers PC speaker sound, floppy disk data recovery with Greaseweazle, and GW-BASIC forks.