I wrote a clone of the QuickBasic Nibbles clone. If you’re interested, please try it out and let me know what you think.
I’m especially interested in suggestions for more levels - please share any you might have.
Here’s the link: http://www.thekillams.ca/andrew/downloads.php
cheers,
Andrew
i tried playing it, but a chunk of the board on the right side appeared to be offscreen, as I could move the snake offscreen on the right side and not die, but not able to see where the numbers were either
I’m running
amd 2000 xp
1 gig ram
ati radeon 8500
windows 2000
1280x1024 resolution
same for me.
Wasn’t sure wether I am wrong or the game was wrong 
Otherwise I loved to play nibbles in 2-player-mode the early days. You should also implement that! It turns out to be a really addictive beast if you have a good opponent!
Two Player is certainly on my todo list, as is an AI second player. The trick will be handling path finding in a way that isn’t always best-case (making for a difficult and not fun experience) and has good performance.
You aren’t the first person to have trouble; as far as I can tell the issue is with Java entering full-screen mode.
I posted the code for Nibbles on Sun’s other java forums - please take a look and see if you can find what I’m doing wrong (if anything). The main () function handles full screen entry, and is located at the end of the class.
Here’s the link: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=406&thread=474758&tstart=0&trange=50
I look forward to any suggestions - I’d like to get this problem fixed!
cheers,
Andrew
Hi,
got the same problem. Only a part of the game was visible.
OS: Win2000
Memory: 512 MB
Grafik card: ATI Mobility 3
ciao torsten