I am a long-time Commodore 128 owner. My system still runs and I thought it would be fun to share a couple of screen shots.

This is a single player versus the computer version of Mille Bornes, a card game created in 1954 by Edmond Dujardin and marketed in the United States by Parker Brothers. The game simulates an automobile race and the physical card edition can be played by up to four people. There are slight modifications to the rules for a two-player game. I’ve followed these in my GEOS implementation.

This was one complex bit of software. I wish I had tracked the total number of hours that I spent on this project, but it never occurred to me to do so when I began. The graphics for the cards are based strongly on the physical card deck. I had to learn how to control sprites to animate the movement of a card across the playing surface. A major trick was codifying the strategy for winning. I must have done OK, because my own game beats me slightly less than half the time. It is kicking my butt in this screen shot.

This version runs under both GEOS 64 and GEOS 128 in 40-column mode, which provides for the use of colors.