The Murk Story

This is a simple little game I wrote a while back, I have not given it much thought till I got my Poqet PC. While looking around for games that would work on it I recalled Murk. Using Murk in text mode worked great on the Poqet (Murk also runs in 256 color VGA). So I decided to rewrite Murk in C and make it faster, smaller and smoother than before (originally it was in pascal).

Murk is a "lobe runner" sorta game. It's a platform jumper, basically grab all the diamonds, and get to the teleporter without running into a bad guy or touching a bad block. I have always liked this kind of game, and me and my friends used to make levels and see how well the others could solve them.

So I like to see if any other "palmtop" (or desktop) owners would also enjoy this game, so here is the alpha version of the rewrite. It's should work on an 8086 just fine (works well on my Poqet, which is no speedster). Remeber, this is an beta, so if you find a bug, or don''t like something, tell me so I can fix it!

Right now I'm working on the keyboard routines, trying to get the right feel. A few people have said it is a bit touchy, so tell me what you think.

Perhaps I will do a VGA version (with silly digital sound) and make a level editor.

If you use Murk on a DOS palmtop, email me and tell me how it works, or tell me what doesn't work!
(I'm really curious about HP LXs.)