Thread: Need help creating game with Turbo C

Originally Posted by samGwilliam

I've played an ASCII Space Invaders clone.

Yes, but at the very least, you would need a "position the current output here" type function (e.g. gotoxy()), so using STANDARD I/O functionality is not possible here, which is what the original message says.

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Mats

I thought gotoxy was part of the standard IO. It must be in conio.h, then. Sorry, it's been a while since I made a text mode game.

Originally Posted by samGwilliam

I thought gotoxy was part of the standard IO. It must be in conio.h, then. Sorry, it's been a while since I made a text mode game.

It may well live in stdio.h in some header files - but it is not part of the C standard, and for example Visual Studio doesn't have a gotoxy function at all - you can quite easily make one from available Console API's, but that's not the point here.

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Mats