Maxit for PC DOS

PC DOS

Questions take a single key without Enter (Y instructions, 1 or 2 players), a name is typed and confirmed with Enter. On your turn Space moves the highlight to the next free square of your row (player 1) or column (player 2), Enter takes it. Esc quits the game.

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Maxit

Online version of Maxit for PC DOS. A numbers logic game for 1 or 2 players, written by Harry J. Saal for the Commodore PET and published by The Code Works on issue 25 of the Cursor tape magazine in April 1981. An 8x8 board holds randomly scattered numbers from 15 down to -9 and one shared marker: the first player may move it only along its row, the second only along its column, and every move scores the value of the square the marker lands on, negative ones included. Each move therefore also decides what the opponent gets to choose from. In 1982 Patrick Leabo rewrote the game in GW-BASIC for the IBM PC, and the Commodore 64 has a German conversion plus a separate Dutch version by Courbois Software.

IBM PC with MS-DOS

Online emulated version of Maxit was originally developed for the IBM PC and compatible computers, with MS DOS - Microsoft Disk Operating System. It is an OS for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft and released in 1981 as PC DOS 1.0.
MS-DOS was targeted at Intel 8086 processors running on computer hardware using floppy disks to store and access not only the operating system, but application software and user data as well. Progressive version releases delivered support for other mass storage media in ever greater sizes and formats, along with added feature support for newer processors and rapidly evolving computer architectures. Ultimately, it was the key product in Microsoft's development from a programming language company to a diverse software development firm, providing the company with essential revenue and marketing resources. It was also the underlying basic operating system on which early versions of Windows ran as a GUI.