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Hi.

Which of these categories does this fall under?

• A) Year 2023
• B) Zombie
• C) Institution Breakout
• D) Hospital
• E) Final Days

I don't see how to run this on Linux.

If you have a lead on another submission and you want to wait for it - that's fine.  Right now we only have 2, so more would certainly be more fun. It would be nice if there was some communication about what's going on, otherwise it's just odd to have the thing extended by one day every day.

What's up with adding another day every day?

Thanks for checking it out again. I removed the -rc version. That version recalculated the FPS once a second with the goal of being more reactive to slowness, but it would defintitely feel more jerky. I would have expected that with a program as simple as this and looking over an entire second (> 100 frames) we'd stable FPS numbers, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Anyway I removed this version based on your feedback.

Thanks for you patience. 

I tried to replicate this on two different Windows 11 computers and I am not sure I am seeing what you saw. I did a lot of timing experiments and never saw variance in the 0.5 second range, I only saw a difference of about 1-2 milliseconds between frames. Nevertheless I did update the way the program calculates FPS in an effort to workaround this issue. You will find the new binaries in the pacman-rc.zip. I hope they solve the problem.

Thanks for the feedback! 

I only have one machine with Windows11, an old Dell that is not officially supported for Windows11 but can run it with a Registery hack. I tried the program this  morning on this computer and had no issues. Obviously I could not try every version and every resolution, but I did try both 32-bit and 64-bit,  both pman and techman and a couple of resolutions and could not duplicate the issue with a few seconds of play.

Can you provide a little more detail? Which binary did you try, what resolution, was this on desktop of laptop, etc. I'd be happy to try to debug this but it's hard if I cannot repro the issue.

Thanks for checking it out! 

This is fixed now. You can either download the new version or just copy the "sounds" directory into the same folder where the binary you are runnig is.

That will teach me to test better!

You talked me into it. I added sound!  :-) 

Thank you for your delightful comments. I really appreciate you taking the time to try out and review my program. 

I will look into adding sound. Sadly, sound is not built into freebasic so it requires an external library which makes source distribution a little harder.

That's good advice. Thank you!

My submission is https://github.com/ixiz9/freebasic-games/tree/main/pacman.

To compile the version that complies with the contest rules do

fbc -d v2023 pman.bas

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I have a nearly finished version of PacMan with a "2023" board I was thinking of submitting. Would this be acceptable?

Not sure what the submission process is, though. Are you looking for code? binaries? If binaries, what platform, etc.