B Ball – fantastic glow, color specter!
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@selzero Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [en.wikipedia.org], released in 1989 (EGA version on MS-DOS shown below). Adventure game (there was also an arcade one, much less interesting IMHO).
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Created a brand-new 86Box system, custom made for MS-DOS 3.31 and Windows/386 2.11.
This is using a 386 CPU with 4 megs of RAM, Trident TVGA 8900D graphics and a 120MB WDAC2120 harddisk. Everything seems to be pretty compatible and works without issues, running in 386 enhanced mode. Including the latest and greatest MS Word 1.1a and Excel 2.1d.
@w84death@fosstodon.orgHow two modes works. Exploring map vs building tracks.
Binary is 5162 bytes.
Just casually playing with old #ham #msdos #packetradio software #GraphicPacket, my favorite in the 90's, in a #DosBoxX window.
I'm thrown 30 years back and thrilled to have managed to make it work with a #KISS modem and #TFKISS resident driver (a NordLink TNC2 "TheFirmware" emulator for MSDOS).
Btw, I am preaparing some real hardware (Pentium 233) to make that work on, with a legendary 1200 bauds packet-radio #BayCom modem...
@w84death@fosstodon.orgLow 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.
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.
B ball – fantastic 80s! Colors, moves! Text!
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/03/b-ball-fantastic-80s-colors-moves-text.html
@w84death@fosstodon.orgI'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.
Back in 1992, when releasing Windows 3.1, Microsoft chose to remove the game "Reversi" from the system. So, today, while sorting through various versions of Windows 3.0, I am also checking out the different revisions of REVERSI.EXE.
Interestingly, there's an upgraded (grey) version of Reversi for Windows 3.1, which seems to be no longer compatible with the original Windows 3.0 or 3.00a. When I tried to run it, it just threw an error message in my face.
Today I learned there was a game based on "Connections with James Burke", one of my all time favorite TV series. This coincided with a craving for 90s Myst clones.
This is extremely satisfying.
My AbandonwareConnectionsRemember Connections, an old video game from 1995? Download it and play again on MyAbandonware.
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 look and feel 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 usefulness, even within an emulator, is a bit limited.
@w84death@fosstodon.orgI'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.)
@w84death@fosstodon.orgUpdated tiles: resources and infrastructure.
@w84death@fosstodon.orgImplemented DawnBringer's 16 Color Palette!
Current binary size: 4187 bytes
Vi Aliens – 70 seconds for a level! They are here!
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/02/vi-aliens-70-seconds-for-level-they-are.html
@w84death@fosstodon.orgNew splash screen and main menu.
More backend refactors, even faster tiles/sprite rendering.
Still 2.4KB
Some #CreativeCoding with #p5js.
The very same sketch runs unmodified on #MSDOS using #DOjS and the #p5js compatibility layer.
