Low level UX:
- mode 0: viewport panning
- mode 1: cursor movement + tracks building

For future there will be mode 2 for infrastructure placement/management.

Current size: 5175 bytes.

#asm #assembly_language #msdos #gamedev #PixelArt #retrocomputing #RetroGameDev #UX

Is there a way in #Linux to mount a DOS disk that was compressed with DoubleSpace? The 40MB hard drive that was in my Toshiba T5200 was compressed that way and I was able to ddrescue it back in November, but all I found on the DOS partition was a great big 39.9MB file called DBLSPACE.000.

#MSDOS #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

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Spindle does seem pretty stiff. Let’s try spinning it by hand and applying power. It spun up and moved the heads! #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

B ball – fantastic 80s! Colors, moves! Text!

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#retrogame #arcade #dynamicgame #80ssciencefiction #scifi #spacesuit #space #spaceship #lotsofindication #fantastic #colorful #colors #skills #bonus #doublehit #blocks #hitblock #8bit #msdos #8bitcomputers #bbcbasicforsdl2 #retroprogramming #qbasic #gamedev #devlog

An issue with some #NortonGuide files is they use colour attributes that assume the original Norton Guide application colour scheme. Won't play well with my app's themes.

So I added a "classic view" mode...

#MSDOS #Clipper #Terminal #Python #Textual

I'm starting implementing game-play elements. Slowly. This is now hand placed elements but the engine recognize carts (empty or resource type) and can draw one type of railroads.

Binary is almost 5K at the moment.

#ASM #assembly_language #GameDev #MSDOS

Next up for the #NortonGuide reader project is sorting out colour mapping. #Textual (well the #terminal I guess) has a very idea of what colour codes are vs good old #MSDOS.

Will need to create a mapping.

#Python

Woke up this morning thinking I didn't like how I'd done the see-also handling in the new #NortonGuide viewer. Dropped the pop-up menu and went with a more classic approach...

#Terminal #Python #Clipper #MSDOS #Textual

Back in the day, "PC Paintbrush for Windows" used to be my favourite image editor. I kept using it well into the modern Windows 9x era. Only recently, I learned of its history as an MS-DOS application. There are plenty of interesting similarities!

#MSDOS #RetroComputing #ImageEditing #Windows #Paintbrush #86Box #Emulation

Ein Image der "4 PC-Super-Spiele" Diskette ist jetzt auch im Internet-Archive verfügbar. Im Jahre 1995 war das vermutlich die Krönung der PC-Spiele-Kunst! Ähhh... Okay, vermutlich nicht.

Trotzdem viel Spaß! 😃

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#MSDOS #RetroGaming #Diskette #Collection #RetroComputing #86Box #Emulation

Another bad retro diskette! At first glance, this one seemed pretty much gone. None of my disk imaging tools was able to read it. Windows Explorer just crashed.

Only a low level KryoFlux dump was able to uncover the physical cause behind this: A corrupt root directory beyond any chance of repair. Luckily, both the file allocation tables as well as most of the data clusters were still in good shape. I used a hex editor to manually recover all the files from the valid tracks. It worked!

I guess these games are nothing special, but it still made me happy to pull usable data and working files from such a destroyed file system!

#RetroComputing #FloppyDisk #KryoFlux #DataRecovery #MSDOS #86Box #FAT12

Playing a #mod via a network mapped TNFS share over #FujiNet RS232 on my Toshiba T5200 20Mhz 386. Both the player and the mod file are on the mapped drive. youtube.com/shorts/1E0BROv5lkQ…

#MSDOS #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

And now I can run a .EXE from TNFS! Crazy DOS was just moving the file pointer without telling anyone. 😖

#MSDOS #FujiNet #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

The new #NortonGuide tinker project has got to the point where it's loading and displaying entries, with colour and everything.

Bonus points if you can identify the guide...

#Python #Clipper #MSDOS #Textual

After watching some very interesting videos about the "History of Windows" last night, I got a little curious and installed a copy of Windows 3.00a onto one of my virtual machines. Back in 1993, my first PC already came preinstalled with a modern Windows 3.1, so this is something new to me.

On the one hand, the system does look familiar, but on the other hand... everything looks a bit "off". Mostly the colours. But, so far, everything seems to be working just fine. At this time, Windows still lacked any kind of multimedia software, so there's no Sound Recorder or Media Player yet. But, as a nice bonus, they still included the "MS-DOS Executive", so you can make it work and look very close to Windows 2.x.

Unfortunately, unlike WIndows 3.1 or 3.11, there has never been a Y2K patch for Windows 3.0, so its usability, even within an emulator, is a bit limited.

#RetroComputing #Windows #MSDOS #History #Microsoft #86Box #Emulation

I've got my birthday present earlier. A working unit of Compaq Contura 430C!

A 486DX4/100 notebook with a trackball 🐁

What is most important is that my latest engine works absolutely flawless and with full speed! Success!

p.s. the sound it makes is pure ASMR (floppy, hard disk, beeps.)

#asm #msdos #gamedev #retrocomputing #retrogamedev

I can't believe how much special casing #MSDOS does when it comes to files. First there was a difference between COPY and TYPE. Now there is a difference when trying to run a .EXE. Nope, can't just read bytes from a file and run them, there's some additional field somewhere that has to be set "just right.”

#FujiNet #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Desperately seeking suggestions for the best Solitaire or Mahjongg games on all retro systems. Preferably with screenshots.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #appleii #c64 #amiga #atari8bit #atarist #mac #ti99 #msdos #tandy #coco #speccy #acorn #msx

Okay, let's do it, at least one last time...

#Python #terminal #nortonguide #clipper #msdos #textual

Gravis Ultrasound and Cubic Player on the 486

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #chiptune #tracker #trackers #synth #DOS #i486 #CRT #phosphor #video #macro #scanlines #MSDOS #mods #ByteCellar

Something I just discovered today:

When I am running Microsoft's ScanDisk (from MS-DOS 6.22) on top of PC-DOS 7, it gives me this rather bizarre warning message addressing a possible issue with long files names. Somehow, in 1994, it already possessed some pre-emptive knowledge about the upcoming MS-DOS 7, a.k.a. Windows 95, which would introduce long file names. Interesting!

#MSDOS #PCDOS #Microsoft #ScanDisk #RetroComputing #History

Updated tiles: resources and infrastructure.

#PixelArt #16colors #MSDOS #GameDev

for the past few months i've been playing (and re-playing) every graphical star trek adventure game i can find.

it's been hit and miss. today, a genuine surprise: Star Trek DS9: Harbinger is *ridiculously* good.

it's like playing a *good* DS9 episode with the original cast, and no ridiculous inventory puzzles.

i avoided it in the past because all screenshots showed a phaser and made it look like an FPS with adventure elements.

it's the polar opposite: a first person Return To Zork-like, super dialogue heavy and purely focused on story

i can see why it would irritate both hardcore adventure gamers and ST fans alike, but i think it's just fantastic so far. i'm about halfway through.

#adventureGames #startrek #dosgaming #msdos

Repórter Retro 111

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#ReprterRetro #8BitRetroJournal #ActionRetro #AhAhhhhhhh #Altair8800 #AppleII #AtariVCS #Bendix #Brasil #BSD #captura #Centurion #ChandlerKlser #ClubeMSX #Commodore128 #ComputadoresMilitares #CRT #DavesGarage #DNS #dosce #Flash #Homebrew #internet #Japo #JordanMechner #Karateka #Linux #MarioCavalcanti #microsoft #MicrosoftBASIC #MSDOS #MSX #MSXGoauld #MSXRio #multitarefa #MultitaskingDOS #msica #Netscape #NORC #Old

Repórter Retro 111 - Retrópolis

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#20InfluentialGames #gamedev day 9: #Rayman (sylvainhb.blogspot.com/search/…) #MsDos, #NintendoDSi

(challenge is #20games, 1 game per day, no review, no explanation, no particular order)

a #Mario clone for #MSDOS ? and a #sourcecode analysis ? on a blog ? you bet that goes into #booxread !

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Programming Nostalgia: revisiting Mike Wiering’s Mario game written in Pascal | ToughDev

I have always been a fan of Super Mario game (and its variants) ever since the first time I touched the computer keyboard.

^ToughDev

Galactic is in move

And, this is my drawing based on Pulseman (SMD). You are landed at space labyrinth. Such a big space station. Amongst the space. It is consisting with most different sectors. So here – there are palms to grow. Well, they are not palm at all. And something unknown. But, it is growing straight in space.
#pixelart #digitalart #8bit #16bit #sega #megadrive #msdos #funnyperson #coolperson #arcade #2dgame #retrogame #80s #90svideogames #space #galaxy #labyrinth

back before SimCity 2000 became the defining city builder, Maxis published A-Train... which was the (third) Artdink Japan "Take the A-Train" rail & city building simulation game.

unlike railroad tycoon which is almost entire construction-based, and simcity which is entirely urban management-based, A-Train blends both genres together. you build a railroad, and in so doing, build a city around your infrastructure.

i've always been quite taken by the UI, which I thought was much more interesting than SC.

today i found out there was a Sharp X68000 version, which has a *very* subtly different colour palette which relaxes the yellows into something very pleasant to look at.

those palettes are *sixteen* colours

left: A-Train (DOS)
right: A-Train (Sharp X68000)

#dosgaming #msdos #retroGaming

Only 7 sprites, 4 colors per sprite, 16x16
64x64 procedural terrain. 2KB com file.

#CRT #assembly_language #ASM #PixelArt #MSDOS #GameDev

Yes!

#asm #16bit #msdos #assembly_language #PixelArt

I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):

- Updated README because of login-problems with Mastodon 4.3 or newer
- Uploaded #win32 version (works on #WinXP or newer)

Grab it at github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS

GitHub - SuperIlu/DOStodon: MS-DOS Mastodon client

MS-DOS Mastodon client. Contribute to SuperIlu/DOStodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

#20InfluentialGames day 3: #TitusPrehistorik (sylvainhb.blogspot.com/2007/03…), #MsDos, #FrenchDev # Platformer.

(challenge is #20games 1 game per day, no review, no explanation, no particular order)

I have some nostalgia for "Terminal Velocity" (1995). I played it on my first PC short after getting a "multimedia" upgrade – Sound Blaster + CD-ROM drive – and I still have the original disc... somewhere. 💿

Can't remember where it came from, but it was cheap and came bundled with "L.A. Blaster" (1996), a rather poor racer/shooter.

Terminal Velocity isn't a fantastic game, but I like it. I like it better than "Descent" (1995), to which is often compared.

#retrogaming #msdos #gaming #nostalgia

#gamedev #20InfluentialGames day 2: #FuryOfTheFurries (sylvainhb.blogspot.com/search/…), #MsDos #FrenchDev #puzzle #platformer with #adlib soundtrack.

(challenge is #20games 1 game per day, no review, no explanation, no particular order)