Well, that ALIX PC I got has display hardware but the resistors that connect the bus to the VGA header aren't installed. Sadly, they're smd, tiny and beyond my skill level to install.
You know, @olimex has been on a roll with amazing SBCs, they should totally make a vortex86 board to run FreeDOS ... Just saying... 😉 #retrocomputing#dos#freedos
Today's GOG giveaway: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun. Mysteriously I already have it, must have bought it on sale or something. Even the thumbnail creeps me out...will I survive playing the actual game? #retrogaming#dos
#WordPerfect 5.1 for #DOS in an #ArchLinux#i3 VM? Yes, and it even prints! I could’ve gone one step further and printed the document to an actual printer, but I already have a printed copy, and I didn’t want to waste paper.
I already got this working with a #Windows host. Next stop: the #Mac, because why not?
It helped me to find a stupid bug in my framebuffer code that slowed down clearing images.
Coding and compiling was done with #VSCode and #WATCOM,
and execution in DOSBox showed immediately what failed.
We don't see such bugs on Windows or Linux with our GHz CPUs anymore.
But with good old #DOS on an emulated 386 33 MHz host it made a jump from 2 to 18 FPS after fixing.
That's true optimization nobody cares about today. #gamedev before #Y2K must have been real fun.
My ScummVM Music Enhancement Project featured on the DOS GAME CLUB Podcast, discussing the classic point-and-click game Discworld. Stunning VGA graphics, mind-bending puzzles, and my goal to improve game music.
31 years ago today, on May 5th 1992, the legendary Wolfenstein 3D was released for DOS. I remember my friend had it on his PC (probably the next year, 1993, when I was 13), and my family had a Mac Performa that I eventually put it on too!
Not surprisingly, lots of people still play Wolf 3D today and are dedicated to making amazing custom maps and levels for it. There's just very few things as satisfying as killing digital Nazis. I still play the DOS version sometimes myself, and I recently put the 360 version on my Series X (one of the only good console versions- the SNES one is terrible!)
And sure, you could buy the original for just a dollar or two on Steam, but you can download it for FREE (or play it for free in your browser via DOSBox) at one of my all-time favorite sites on the web, DOS Gaming dot com, here: https://dosgames.com/game/wolfenstein-3d.
Disk image archive and info resource for the Sanyo MBC-550 PC "compatible" from 1982. It's an interesting clone that features better-than-CGA 640x200 resolution 8-color graphics, ending up with a few unique titles, as such.
No nareszcie, nie mogłem się doczekać, jak wprowadzenia 640kB RAM, które miało wystarczyć już chyba dla wszystkich?😉
Tak #Microsoft#DOS 4.0 udostępniony jako open-source. Śmiechy śmiechami, ale sporo systemów będzie dzięki temu "uratowanych"?🤔
Choć #FreeDOS istnieje od lat!
Wondering if anyone's interested in #FLOSS for older systems like #DOS and #FreeDOS? I really liked the #XFDOS distribution based on #FLTK and #nano-x with FreeDOS. I know the lead developer of XFDOS is no longer active, but it would be nice to see some development continue on this project. Is anyone else besides me interested in this sort of thing?
I started on 8 bit micros and I have a lot of nostalgia for them. But, my favorite era of computing starts with the arrival of true 16 bit machines and ends with the arrival of USB. Amiga, 286-486 PCs and 68k Macs. The experience was sophisticated and useful but the machines were still focused on getting a job done and not on extracting money or personal data from the user. And they looked pretty. 😁
My first ZakStunts pro podium!
And a win on the amateur leaderboard.
A crazy track this month, full of illusions and invisible features due to clever tile placement. Fully exploiting all the quirks that make this game what it is today. #dos#dosgaming#retrogaming#stunts#zakstunts
Was dies genau bedeutet und wie man es verhindert mit Updates oder Alternative #API's gibt muss ich mir noch ansehen.
»Fluent Bit – Schwere Sicherheitslücke bei vielen #Cloud-Anbietern entdeckt:
Das #OpenSource-Programm #FluentBit wird unter anderem von allen großen Cloud-Anbietern wie #AWS und #Google genutzt. Bei der #Protokoll-#Software wurde jetzt eine kritische #Schwachstelle entdeckt, die mehrere Angriffe (#DoS) erlaubt. Ein #Update wird dringend empfohlen.«
Happy new year! Even with the holidays and everything lately, a lot of great stuff came out this week. If you recently released something that you want included, always feel free to send me an email or message me on social media (see About page) to let me know it’s out.
retro looking top down view of a house by the waterHexany’s Roguelike Tiles
Hexany’s Roguelike Tiles is a really nice looking batch of tiles released under a Creative Commons license for anyone to use. I just thought they looked nice and thought it should be included.
a metal sphere navigating a mazeSpheroid Spheroid is a puzzle game for the Commodore Amiga where you move a metal sphere around a maze and get to the exit. The Amiga was my first computer so it makes me happy that Itch has an active Amiga game dev scene on there.
a glowing yellow pepper outside in a park?Dead Drop DeadDrop is the 19th game in the Carol Reed series, a series of first person point-and-click mystery games. I haven’t played any of these (I will fix that this year!) but I heard they’re solid games. I just enjoy that the games are exclusively available for sale from the developer’s site and nowhere else. It reminds me of the 90s/early 00s era of buying indie games.
Word Thirds Word Thirds is a new game by John Passfield, of Halloween Harry and Flight of the Amazon Queen fame. It’s a puzzle game on the iOS app store and Itch where you make as many six letter words with letter tiles as you can within sixty seconds. I’m awful at word games but it’s a fun game.
No Escape Essay Pack
This is a bundle of writing about games that includes three issues of the No Escape magazine as well as some essays. It’s a great way to support one of the best sites out there, No Escape.
glowing white butterflies over the waterBlueSuburbia BlueSuburbia is now on Steam. I’ve mentioned the game before but previously it was only on Itch. This demo is a first person interactive fiction where you explore poems through immersive environments. I believe it was built in the Unreal Engine but it does some really cool stuff like having playable Bitsy games inside the game.
My Discworld Fan-Made Soundtrack Featured on the DOS GAME CLUB Podcast - Pixel Refresh (www.pixelrefresh.com)
My ScummVM Music Enhancement Project featured on the DOS GAME CLUB Podcast, discussing the classic point-and-click game Discworld. Stunning VGA graphics, mind-bending puzzles, and my goal to improve game music.