Snake 3D
Micro Focus COBOL Code Contest
Snake is a video game which originated during the late 1970s in arcades and has maintained popularity since then, becoming a classic.
The player controls a long, thin creature, resembling a snake, which roams around on a bordered plane, picking up food trying to avoid hitting its own tail or the "walls" that surround the playing area. Each time the snake eats a piece of food it gooes faster and its tail grows longer, making the game increasingly difficult. The user controls the direction of the snake's head, and the snake's body follows. The player cannot stop the snake from moving while the game is in progress.
A modernized Visual COBOL version ofSnake, by Marco Cavanna (Italy)
This modernized Visual COBOL version of Snake, by Marco Cavanna, took the contest by storm and by unanimous decision is our runaway competition winner. Marco was able to take a classic gaming experience to the next level by going 3 dimensional! Marco created what is probably the world’s first 3-d graphics gaming engine in COBOL.
Staying true to the original game, Marco even incorporated effects in this modern revival. Just as addictive now as it was then, a fantastic twist on a retro gaming classic – we loved it!
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We develop and distribute a production control application for pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries compliant to GMP and FDA regulation. We needed to convert this application from RM Cobol to Visual Cobol aiming to get a remarkable improvement of the user interface while retaining all the data processing functions (almost 70% of the entire application). The solution suggested by GoodWorks was to use a Java-based GUI while preserving in Visual Cobol all the data processing logic. We'd like to thank GoodWorks both for the effective solution suggested and for the consultancy and support they provided us during the critical phases of the conversion project. They proved to be responsive and highly experienced in solving each problem we presented to them. This collaboration was very profitable for us. We hope to continue for long time to work with GoodWorks.
Ing. Antonio & Raffaele Mottalini,
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