A Rust port of the first video game I played, QBasic Gorillas. It reproduces the original's software rendering, projectile physics, QBASIC PLAY-string audio synthesis, and screen-by-screen game flow.
The port was developed against deterministic reference captures from the original game running in DOSBox. Five exporters in src/bin/ produce machine-readable outputs covering physics, rendering, scene composition, PLAY sequence parsing, and audio. The scripts in tools/ compare those outputs against the original's behavior, and cargo test -q tests the exporters.
You can play in your browser here, or download the latest release for your platform:
| Platform | Target | Archive |
|---|---|---|
| Linux x86_64 | x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu |
.tar.gz |
| Linux aarch64 | aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu |
.tar.gz |
| macOS Intel | x86_64-apple-darwin |
.tar.gz |
| macOS Apple Silicon | aarch64-apple-darwin |
.tar.gz |
| Windows x86_64 | x86_64-pc-windows-msvc |
.zip |
Native build:
cargo run --release --bin gorillasNative verification:
cargo fmt --check
cargo test -q- Linux builds target desktop environments with X11, OpenGL, and ALSA available
- macOS release binaries are unsigned for now, so Gatekeeper may require an explicit "Open Anyway" approval on first launch
- Browser audio can require the first user interaction before playback begins
The code in this repository is dual-licensed under MIT, Apache-2.0. That license grant covers original code and other repository-authored material only. Reference-derived embedded data and vendored third-party files are disclosed in THIRDPARTY.md. The brief attribution notice shipped with release archives is in NOTICE.