''Gorillas'', also known under the

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's file name ''GORILLA.BAS'', is a

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first distributed with MS-DOS 5 and published in 1990 by

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. It is a turn-based

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. With allusions to

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, the game consists of two gorillas throwing explosive bananas at each other above a city skyline. The players can adjust the angle and velocity of each throw. Written in

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, it is one of the programs included as a demonstration of that

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. The others are '' Nibbles'' (another game), ''Money'' (a simple financial

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), and ''REMLINE'' (a program to remove line numbers from old

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programs).

QB64 version

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included a copy of ''Gorillas'', adapted to be run at proper speed, until it was removed due to copyright concerns. As the compiler does not support DEF FN for inline functions, the original code was also adapted to use regular functions.

References

External links

* Original version by IBM Corporation (archived)
Online playable version
at the

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.
Gorillas.js
- An

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, browser-based version of Gorillas written in

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QB64 version

See also

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