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    From bencollver@VERT/CASTLERO to All on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 20:56:00
    Today i discovered PostBot, a free, homebrew game for the GameBoy and emulators. It made for a fun rainy-day activity. The premise of the
    game is that you are programming a robot to maneuver around obstacles
    and deliver mail to mailboxes. The game has eight levels, each level progressively more difficult than the prior level. The robot has six operations: turn left, turn right, move forward, deliver mail, do F1,
    and do F2. The main program has space for 10 operations. F2&F2 each
    have space for 5 operations, and recursion is allowed. Clear a level
    by delivering mail to every mailbox on that level.

    The game can be played in a browser-based GameBoy emulator, and there
    is also an option to download the ROM, which is roughly 64KB in size.
    I played it in the zboy emulator on FreeDOS. For download links, see
    below.

    https://github.com/MasterIV/PostBot

    http://rojahn.org/games/postbot/PostBot.gb

    http://zboy.sourceforge.net/

    Have fun!
    -Ben

    ... Everyone smiles in the same language.

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  • From Phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to bencollver on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 04:03:31
    Re: PostBot homebrew retro-ga
    By: bencollver to All on Wed Sep 21 2022 08:56 pm

    Today i discovered PostBot, a free, homebrew game for the GameBoy and

    On the postbot page, the guy links to two places where you can play it in a web browser.. One of them has three other homebrew games.. I've been meaning to search for them to find roms of those as well.

    Excellent find.

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  • From anthk@VERT to All on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 04:56:24
    On 2022-09-27, Phigan <TACOPRON!Phigan@vert.synchro.net> wrote:

    Re: PostBot homebrew retro-ga
    By: bencollver to All on Wed Sep 21 2022 08:56 pm

    Today i discovered PostBot, a free, homebrew game for the GameBoy and

    On the postbot page, the guy links to two places where you can play it in a web browser.. One of them has three other homebrew games.. I've been meaning to search for them to find roms of those as well.

    Excellent find.

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    https://github.com/MasterIV?tab=repositories

    The github profile has more ROMs.

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  • From Phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to anthk on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 15:12:26
    Re: Re: PostBot homebrew retro-ga
    By: anthk to All on Wed Jun 14 2023 04:56 am

    https://github.com/MasterIV?tab=repositories
    The github profile has more ROMs.

    Awesome, will check them out. They are different ones, unfortunately.

    By the way, there's a Grimace's Birthday Gameboy Color game from McDonalds, if you haven't seen it yet! https://grimacesbirthday.com/

    You can download the ROM on archive.org, even :)

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