This is a Super Mario Bros. clone with six levels, written in
Turbo Pascal. I wrote this game to practice VGA programming. My goal was to
create a PC game with parallax scrolling layers that would run smoothly on
my 486 computer (25 MHz). I didn't plan to release this Mario game, instead
use the engine to make more original games.
However, an old beta version of this Mario game (with only four levels,
unfinished) somehow ended up being spread around. I was very surprised to
find someone selling disks with my Mario clone at a computer fair years
later! I bought one to examine the contents at home. What I saw made me
really furious: someone had actually changed the game into shareware,
modified the executable, added some doc files and even a registration
form, asking people to send $15!
Seeing other people make money from my games like this took away my
motivation for games programming for a while. I kept finding this hacked
version on shareware CD-ROMs and Internet sites.ly, I decided to
release the complete source code of this game, so people can at least
learn from it.
The game was originally written in Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0, which
supports inline assembly. Because some people don't have TP 6.0, I have
also made a version of the source code for TP 5.5, which is available
for free at Borland's Museum.
![[Mario & Luigi Screenshot]](mario.png "Mario & Luigi screenshot")
