EBE stands for Extraterrestrial Biological Entity. It’s the name of a game I wrote in college around 1991. I recently recovered the code and exe from a 300mb full height SCSI drive I still have from the period. I don’t know what’s more incredible – that the SCSI interface (and hard drive power interface) has been so long-lived, or that the drive still works. I ran the code in the DOSBOX emulator to get a few pics. At the time, I was using a custom hardware circuit to provide digitized sound over the PC’s parallel port. That device is lost to history…

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The “fun” part of the gameplay was choking the aliens once you reduced their health to a certain level.

I am no artist; I drew the pictures by hand on paper and scanned them (in glorious monochrome) with a Logitech manual hand scanner like this:

.. then I hand-colored and anti-aliased each image/frame with ZSoft’s PC Paintbrush program. PC’s were too slow for a lot of sprites back then, but I used color-cycling on palette to give the background a greter sense of motion.