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Pacman for Excel 97 and 2000
Bob Gortician writes "From Usenet: A Japanese geek programmed a complete Pacman game running on Excel. It can approach the SNES in the future, and currently can run at
least MSX (Colecovision) games completely." The page is mostly in Japanese, but there's enough English to get one started. After careful consideration, I'm prepared to call this even cooler than the Flight Simulator in Excel. Excel might not be anyone's first choice for gaming platform, but it's helpful for anyone stuck in an office environment.
If you go and set macro security to low, I was able to play it in Office 2003 (beta). It is actually a really nice duplication of the actual game, complete with sound effects. The hard part is finding the .zip archive on the site that has some sort of language that I have never heard of before on it before (must be Spanish). Just make sure to revert those settings back, or else there's going to be a "Slashdot Macro" virus. Oh! And that gives me and idea ...
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http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/pacell.lzh
the coolest waste of time I've seen in awhile. Can't imagine why you'd do it but someone did it. Kind of ingenious using cells as pixels and storing all of the images on the sheet (scroll down)
the game was certainly better than any linux port I tried
It's cool just because it is, usefulness be damned.
Method of processing duck feet
These damn agents that corporations put on workstations and laptops record every app you run. By using Excel to browse the internet and play games I can appear to be productive and goof off at the same time.
... Good Man!"
"I see Johnson's still working in the Pacell account
with just about every work enviroment with a conection to the internet these days (including a few that shouldnt have such connection) and with Java all over the place... WHY???????????
Why not?
I agree. Except that...
3 years ago, I ended up writing a "Wheel of Fortune" game inside Powerpoint, complete with the music and sound effects, the spinning wheel with different values, 3 players playing over 3 rounds (with the winner's score being added to the big prize bucket at the end of the game), and pulling puzzles (with categories) out of a database.
You know, like the TV game show used to be before it went all weird.
And I also ended up writing both a Hollywood Squares and WWTBAM game inside Powerpoint as well. I'm thinking of making a "Press Your Luck" board next.
Sweet Zombie Jesus! give this man a Nobel prize. Finding ways to goof off with things that were not meant to be goofed off with is IMHO one of the most nobel and pure of all human endeavors.
This reminds me of my highschool days, when a group of us used to program videogames on our TI-85 graphing calculators. I created this entire boxing RPG game that was very popular amongst the group. As it got passed around people added new features and such until in its last version it took up almost all the operating memory of the calculator.
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
Considering more /.ers speak English than Japanese, the English version might be more useful.
no whamies no whamies no whamies STOP!!!
Crap i got the Johnson account!
For some more games that use excel the site listed this site. A list of games are here
Because it is in Japanese I haven't looked any further, thus there might be more on that page.
I've actually found that Excel is a really quick and easy environment to program cellular automata.
.xls file, or just the code if you'd rather.
The implementation of Conway's Life is trivial and is left as an exercise for the reader - or let met know and I'll email the
evil math within Nature's Cubic Creation!
Now the trick is to get these to work in Gnumeric! :)
hehe
Good Lord you dullards make me sick. Not an ounce of hacking spirit in the lot of you. GET OUT OF MY INTERNET!
I hereby award thee 50 geek points for this amazing and unbelievably faithful reproduction. Knowing how it works just makes it more incredible.
When is Defender coming out?
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
Where I work they've let someone develop an entire enterprise scale distributed and replicated database system using Excel.
Amazingly enough, this was done because the policy makers had imposed a ban on using Access.
All things in moderation; including moderation
Stunned.
Hats off to the guy for the game. I should pass it around the office... Or not and keep my job!
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I guess Geocities isn't any better in Japan than it is in the US... anybody got a mirror?
"For all I know, It must be meaningful that makes the program works on Excel!!"
Couldn't have said it better myself!
Cloud City Digital: DVD Production at its cheapest/finest
NO WAMMIES..STOP! I loved that show. (what I dont love is the 'lameness' filter)
Pacman
Links! Must have this! ++
This is my United States of whatever.
Press Ctrl to "eat" the Ghosts.
There... now with a cheat out it make the game less fun and people can get back to real work.
So what does a reprogrammed version of Pacman have to do with the SNES? And why does the submitter think MSX and Colecovision are the same thing (they are not, despite some similarities in the hardware)?
Of course it does not run on the OSX version of office.
games running under Office. With chips getting faster, how about a MAME emulator in VBA?
Hey, you guys know this site?? :)r tino /5678/
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupe