In another thread "Do complicated Perl programs really exist?" I asked for a complicated program like the game Midtown Madness. You gave me all kind of tips and I thank you for that. But I could not find what I was looking for. I am not kidding in fact I am very serious about this and not so smart with these kind of things.
I will now describe exactly what I am looking for. Can you make this easy for me please?

Now follows the exact description of the Perl program and the description of the way of getting it.

The link
1. I want a direct link to a specific Perl game for windows xp, not a link to links to links to links! It must be a direct link to a specific program. Really I cannot find it in another way.

What game
2. It must run in Perl (created in Perl is irrelevant)
3. It must not be a game that has to be played on the net.
4. It must not be a game that creates games.
5. The interface of the game must be so that it can be fully controlled by mouse and or joystick, not necessarily using the keyboard.
6. The level of complexity of the game could be like Midtown Madness a complex car racing game, it can also be a very complex pacman-like game.

Installation procedure
7. After download the Perl game must be able to install by just clicking on an icon and following easy installation procedure, 'easy' is where the user only has to click in some spaces like "yes I agree" and "no I won't copy the program to sell it". I don't mind if active perl 5.8.8 has to be installed beforehand.
8. No extra operating system extensions or extra complex Perl language extensions have to be installed for the program to be installed. No updates of any kind should be necessary to install the game. No shell should be needed to install!

How to start the program
9. After installation the program can be started by just doubleclicking on an icon and the game starts. No extra procedures!


So after all it is just some complex game written in Perl with a simple user interface, very common in other languages.

Background on all of this...........
I am not a usual programmer I haven't learned any language (except macro language in a hexeditor). I am an experimental programmer trying to find out the potential of Perl. Why? I want to have a program in C++ called 'Counter' that can generate experimental programs by adding files together (files interpreted as large integers). A certain coder on Rent A Coder.com told me that the best way to do this is a C++ program that generates Perl programs because Perl programs are hardware safe, so that dangerous instructions cannot harm the hardware of the computer. I trust the coder to be right, but I just cannot find even one complicated game in Perl.

Why a game? Because I cannot understand most of the complex Perl programs that are around, they have complex interfaces and mostly code have to be added and all kind of extra things have to be installed like language extensions, just to start the programs up. But games mostly have a simple interface, that's why I choose to study games.

Edited by planetscape - Reparented from SoPW to Do complicated Perl programs really exist?

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