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Bill Gates' best-known attempt at a videogame is now available on the… er… iPhone. Yes, Donkey.bas, the Basic racing game - move your car so it doesn't smash into the eponymous ass - has been reproduced in all its 8-bit, two-colour, text-graphics glory on iOS. Bill Gates and Johnny Ixe's Donkey.bas   Bill Gates and Johnny Ixe …

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  1. EddieD

    Meh...

    Gorilla.bas was better.

    1. ElNumbre
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      I had Gorilla.bas which I *think* was included upto DOS 5.0, but I seem to remember being disappointed that it wasn't available in 6.22. I've never seen donkey.bas before, so I guess that was excluded early on.

      Plus, it was playable without having to reconfigure QEMM and reboot, in order to get the damn thing running.

      1. big_D Silver badge

        It was a demonstration for the QBasic environment.

  2. stucs201

    I'm as nostalgic as anyone about old computers

    But I really don't miss the cyan and magenta CGA colour palette.

  3. Richard Wharram

    Curious

    But there's no way I would pay for that thanks.

    1. Marvin the Martian
      Windows

      You can also play it for real instead.

      I once encountered a moose running on the motorway just S-W of Stockholm.

  4. jai

    meh

    I'd rather someone re-made Space Quarks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOebaqeKk1I) for the iPhone instead. At least that game was damn good fun!

  5. Eponymous Cowherd

    OY!

    Keep your hands off my ass!

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Coffee/keyboard

    "Donkey.bas remuled"

    Well played sir. Love it. :-)

  7. Andy The Hat Silver badge
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    What?

    The most pointless game in the world being reported on ... surely continued migration and now presence of the king of all games - Colossal Cave - on the iPhone is far more newsworthy?

  8. Test Man
    Stop

    We all know Bill Gates' stance on copying, so I fully expect his lawyers to be contacting the author of this iOS game soon...

    1. Pen-y-gors

      ...his ass will be toast!

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Well...

    If only Microsoft could write software that didn't crash into an enormous ass!

  10. Ramazan

    http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Donkey.txt

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    This kicks... erm... arse.

  12. Kay Burley ate my hamster
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    2 colour?

    I see 4 colours, Grey, White, Magenta and Cyan.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      You know that neither white nor grey are actually colours, right?

      1. Comments are attributed to your handle
        Headmaster

        @AC 16:20

        "...neither white nor grey are actually colours..."

        Oh really? Then please enlighten us to what they actually are.

        1. Marvin the Martian

          White and grey are...

          types of shark?

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I'd be very happy...

    ...to smash Bill's ass with my car.

    1. Mediocrates
      Joke

      Bill Zass isn't worth damaging a perfectly good car

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        I'll use my beater

        You are correct but the satisfaction would be priceless!

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