DONKEY.BAS (Donkey) on Windows 10

Donkey.bas was a game written in the BASIC Programming Language by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen which was released along with IBM PC-DOS (Version 1.00) in August 1981.
The objective of the game is simple, for the player to avoid hitting donkeys with their car. There is no goal other than to avoid donkeys (and gain points from this). In the game, you cannot steer, accelerate or brake, you can only change lanes to avoid the donkeys on the road.
The game is played in the CGA display mode, which is the only color graphics option that was available on the original IBM PC. Although DONKEY.BAS supports four colors, there are typically only three on screen.
The center of the screen shows a vertical scrolling road with two lanes; the areas on either side of the road are used for scores and instructions. The player's car is driving up the road and every few seconds a donkey will appear at random on one side of the road at the top of the screen. As the donkey moves down the screen, the player can press the space bar to switch between lanes to avoid the donkey. If the car hits the donkey, both car and donkey explode, and parts of the graphics are scattered to the four corners of the screen to the sound of a short monophonic tune played through the PC speaker, with the word "BOOM!" displayed on the left side of the screen. If the player avoids the donkey, it will scroll off the bottom of the screen, with the words "Donkey loses!" displayed on the right side of the screen, and after a few seconds another will appear. There is never more than one donkey on the screen at any one time.
The game keeps the score between the player and the donkeys. If the car hits a donkey, the donkey gets a point and the player is returned to the start of the road. As the car avoids donkeys, it moves slowly up the screen, giving the player less time to react when donkeys appear. If the car avoids enough donkeys, the player receives a point and the car is moved back to the bottom of the road. The game displays the number of points earned by the player and donkey, but does not end or change when a particular score is reached.
The Esc key quits the game.
Sprites are rendered slightly differently between the QBasic interpreter and the original IBM BASICA/GW-BASIC interpreter.
1981 saw the introduction of DONKEY.BAS version 1, while 1982 saw the release of version 1.10. Modern computers that have compatible BIOS and 5.25-inch floppy drives may still run the operating systems that were originally used to distribute the game; however, IBM BASICA, which ran the program under PC DOS 1.x, required ROM-based IBM Cassette BASIC, which is not present on modern computers. There is still access to the source code. The game may be played in compiled form or using the interpreters GW-BASIC (original code) or QBasic (modified code).
In this video I will run the original version of the game (Version 1.00) from August 1981 (The .bas file dates back to the 4th of August, 1981) on a modern Microsoft Windows 10 computer using Microsoft BASICA running under DOSBox.
(The Donkey.bas file was taken from a .zip folder from a .7z file containing the original programs which ran on the first versions of PC-DOS (PC-DOS 1.0))
Get the original Donkey.bas file here (DOSBox and BASICA or GWBASIC is needed to run this game):
winworldpc.com/product/pc-dos/1x
Windows 10 version: Windows 10 22H2
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