COBOL Minesweeper
- Year2010
- StrategyClear Mines
- PlatformMainframe || COBOL
COBOL Minesweeper - Game Overview
Micro Focus released COBOL Minesweeper as part of Visual COBOL 2010.
The game is included as a demonstration program. The purpose of Minesweeper was to demonstrate "how to create a random generator in native COBOL and how to use advanced console operations such as capturing mouse events in the console."
Micro Focus later added Snake, Blitz and Tic-Tac-Toe in 2010 R2. The games can be found in the folder %PUBLIC%\Documents\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL\Samples.
COBOL Minesweeper is a logic game in which you need to clear a minefield without detonating a mine. The minefield is a grid of undistinguished squares some of which contain mines. You click the squares to uncover them. If a square contains a mine, the game is over. Otherwise it shows the numbers of mines that are in the squares directly adjacent to that square. Choose your difficulty level and press Enter to start the game. To reveal a square click it with the left mouse button. Right-click to flag a square if you are sure it contains a mine.
The maximum grid size is 40x40.
Version History
A list of all known versions sorted by platform then version. Email admin@ if you have more! See the Downloads section for available files.
| Mainframe | NA | Original release. |
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Downloads
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| Mainframe | NA | 2010 | Website |
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Credits
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Game Links
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- https://github.com/scotnielsen/VisualCOBOL/tree/master/GamesGithub with source code.
Entity Links
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- microfocus.com