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pBill: The Palm OS xBill port

pBill_title pBill_gameplay

This is a PalmOS port of the great and addictive xBill game for the X Windowing System.

Welcome to pBill...

Play it!

Download and an in-browser emulator can be found here:

https://quarters.captaintouch.com/pBill.html

To know more on how this was created, you can have a look here:

https://ctrl-c.club/~captain/posts/2024-09-24-xbill-for-palmos-receives-an-update-after-25-years.html

ORIGINAL PALM OS PORT

pBill v1.0 23rd Dec 1999

Rob Nielsen

[email protected]

http://www.cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~rnielsen/

2024 PALM OS VERSION

pBill v1.1 Sep 2024

Captain's Quarters

Mastodon: https://social.linux.pizza/@rxpz

Web: https://ctrl-c.club/~captain/

Changes made

  • OS 5 support
  • Game now runs on color palms as well
  • Hi-Res graphics

The Game

Ever get the feeling that nothing is going right? You're a sysadmin, and someone's trying to destroy your computers. The little people running around the screen are trying to infect your computers with Wingdows [TM], a virus cleverly designed to resemble a popular operating system. Additionally, some computers are connected with network cables. When one computer on a network becomes infected, a spark will be sent down the cable, and will infect the computer on the other end when it reaches there.

The status bar at the bottom tells the following:

  • Number of Bills on/off the screen
  • Number of Computers running their OS/off/Wingdows
  • Level
  • Score

How to play

If you change to another application while you are playing, when you return to the game, it will start paused at the start of the level you were on with the score you had at the start of the level. Pressing the pause icon in the top right corner will pause the game. Pressing the Menu key during a game will end the game and drop you back into the start screen.

Original authors

Main Programmer: Brian Wellington ([email protected])

Programming and graphics: Matias Duarte ([email protected])

http://www.xbill.org

License

pBill is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) which means that you can freely make copies of this software and the source code is available on GitHub.