See comparison of operating systems. DOSBox-simulation.
'Bulls and Cows' has a version number in the format 'Year-Month-Day' of the last change.
The actual version is: 2020-03-22
The version number is easy to remember:
The day of abolition of the rule of law in Germany by Angela Merkel as part of Corona crisis.
Wednesday, 3th June 2020
Add to favourites: Strg + D 
Imprint, Data Protection & Legal Notices:You can run the program (but the DOS/DOSBox-version) immediately after download without any unzipping or installation. Bulls and Cows needs no other progams or DLLs.
You only have to set the permission flag 'Executable':
Windows: Please click warnings from the operating system away.
Other operating systems: change the properties or use the command 'chmod 755 ...'.
If you have started the program, you can configure it with choice 8 in the main menu.
The presentation of graphics characters could cause problems: the encoding/codepage is not available, the presentation of graphics characters is wrong or the characters are much to small.
In this case there exists a second version of the program for each operating system without graphics characters, only with the ASCII charcter set. Using Windows this version will solve these problems and you need not to use the Legacyconsole and can use a font and a codepage/encoding, that you want.
If the line breaks are wrong the window of the terminal is too small. Stop the program, increase the window of the terminal and restart the program to solve the problem respectively choose the profilesettings of the terminal and set the terminalsize 80 coloums and 25 lines.
Bulls and Cows or Cows and Bulls is a logic-game for two players.
Bulls and Cows on Wikipedia.
MASTERMIND or SuperHirn is the commercially marketed version of the game as board game.
MASTERMIND on Wikipedia. ---- MASTERMIND from a scientific view.
The program is not only able to ask a riddle but also to solve a riddle and is therefore a real opponent.
Bulls and Cows as browser-game: Start the game
You can play two or more games (e.g. match and rematch) in different browsertabs/windows at the same time.Using Internetexplorer/Microsoft Edge: Please donot click into the window of the game to ensure the keyboard working correct.
The online-game uses the DOS-emulation JsDOSBox.
The online-version of Bulls and Cows is a modified version: BCONLINE.zip.
Start your own DOS-application.
The online-version of Bulls and Cows was programed an compiled with Borland Pascal 7.01.
Bulls and Cows for Windows: Download:
- bc-windows.exe with graphics characters
- bc-windows-ascii.exe without graphics characters
- bc-windows64.exe with graphics characters
- bc-windows64-ascii.exe without graphics characters
respectively 'More informations' 'Still execute'.
Please configure after starting (choice 8 in the main menu).
Please choose 'Use Legacyconsole' and the 'Raster Font'
only with the programversion with graphics characters.
To enjoy the game really you need also suitable
Fonts from Uwe Sieber, OEM Codepage 850.
The Windows-versions of Bulls and Cows were compiled with Free Pascal.
Important!
You can play Bulls and Cows also within DOSBox or a virtual computer with another operating system.
The difference in performance, presentation, colours, font and fontsize are considerable.
See also comparison of operating systems.
Bulls and Cows for Linux: Download:
- bc-linux with graphics characters
- bc-linux-ascii without graphics characters
- bc-linux with graphics characters
- bc-linux64-ascii without graphics characters
Please start your terminal (Linux-console), increase it to maximum size of the window,
respectively choose the profilesettings of the terminal and set the terminalsize 80 coloums and 25 lines,
start bc-linux(64) respectively bc-linux(64)-ascii and choose choice 8 in the main menu for configuration.
The Linux-versions of Bulls and Cows were compiled with Free Pascal .
Bulls and Cows for Apple Mac OS X / OS X / macOS: Download:
- bc-macos.dmg with graphics characters
- bc-macos-ascii.dmg without graphics characters
- Attention! 32-bit-versions (above) only until macOS Mojave 10.14.
From macOS Catalina 10.15 only the 64-bit-versions (below) ! - bc-macos64.dmg with graphics characters
- bc-macos64-ascii.dmg without graphics characters
Please start bc-macos(64) respectively bc-macos(64)-ascii and choose choice 8 in the main menu for configuration.
The macOS-versions of Bulls and Cows were compiled with Free Pascal .
Bulls and Cows for FreeBSD and TrueOS / PC-BSD: Download:
- bc-freebsd with graphics characters
- bc-freebsd-ascii without graphics characters
- bc-freebsd64 with graphics characters
- bc-freebsd64-ascii without graphics characters
with the command 'chmod 755 ...'.
Please start bc-freebsd(64) respectively bc-freebsd(64)-ascii and choose choice 8 in the main menu for configuration.
The FreeBSD-versions of Bulls and Cows were compiled with Free Pascal .
Bulls and Cows for Solaris: Download:
After download please set the permission flag of bc-solaris respectively bc-solaris-ascii 'Executable'.Please start your terminal, increase it to maximum size of the window,
start bc-solaris respectively bc-solaris-ascii and choose choice 8 in the main menu for configuration.
The Solaris-versions of Bulls and Cows were compiled with Free Pascal .
Bulls and Cows for Android:
Attention!The Android-versions of Bulls and Cows are experimental.
You need a filemanager and a terminal/console or an emulator (you get both apps free of charge in the app-store)
and also knowledge of the operating system Android.
Then you can try to install and start Bulls and Cows without guarantee.
You also need a keyboard or a screen keyboard for input (also within the online-version of Bulls and Cows).
Choose the suitable program for your CPU (i386 for Intel and AMD, arm for most mobile phones).
- bc-android-mipsel.apk with graphics characters
- bc-android-mipsel-ascii.apk without graphics characters
Please start the program from the terminal and choose choice 8 in the main menu for configuration.
The Android-versions of Bulls and Cows were compiled with Free Pascal .
Bulls and Cows for DOS and the DOSBox, Download and Installation
Without DOS-emulator DOSBox- suitable for: DOS (MS-DOS, PC-DOS, ...) and Windows 3.1/3.11.
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restricted suitable for all 32-bit-Windows-versions:
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10.
But the Windows-version of Bulls and Cows is the better choice.
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BeOS, OS/2 and RISC OS.
There are no independent programversions of Bulls and Cows for these operating systems,
so you need the DOSBox and the DOS-version of Bulls and Cows.
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All Windows-versions, Linux, Mac OS X / OS X / macOS, FreeBSD and TrueOS / PC-BSD and Solaris.
But there are independent programversions of Bulls and Cows for each operating system, too.
The DOS/DOSBox-version of Bulls and Cows was programed and compiled with Borland Pascal 7.01.
After installing DOSBox configure the configurationfile of DOSBox:
memsize=64, frameskip=0, core=auto, cputype=auto, cycles=auto, xms=true, ems=true, umb=true, keyboardlayout=auto.
Therefore you need not to configure Windows, like the description of BC.EXE or README.EXE.
Please download and unzip one of the files below:
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BC.zip (Windows) ---- BCunzip.exe (Windows, self-extracting)
BC.7z (7z-compression, all operating systems) ---- BC.tar (Linux, Unix)
- BC.EXE ---- BCR.EXE ---- README.EXE ---- RTM.EXE ---- DPMI16BI.OVL
change to this directory and start Bulls and Cows with the command BC.EXE.
All DOSBox-commands e.g. mount are described in the program DOSBox.
The Game starts.