Notices by root42 (root42@chaos.social), page 2

@dosnostalgic neato. Did you dissect it further to see how they do it? Mode X or rather brute force copying?

@dosnostalgic VGA graphics in a 1990 SHMUP? Nice! Never heard of it before.

@dosnostalgic is this a Qix clone? I heard about it back in the day but never played it.

Windows 3.1 just trashed my FAT. Let’s see if PC Tools‘ DiskFix can repair it…
#retrocomputing #msdos

@dosnostalgic wow. Is this tool assisted in any way? How can one memorize the navigation like that? I mean in THAT speed anyway…

@dosnostalgic is this an issue of „old“ vs. „new“ style composite out?

Slàinte mhath!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_hZnf-_XNiU&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

Psycho Snake by Kraze #commodore #c64 #demoscene

@jonshute @dosnostalgic or that it didn’t work in Europe due to PAL…

@h0ffman welcome on board! Looking forward to lots of #commodore #amiga goodness!

@dosnostalgic Is there something like an "extras" section of "making of" which delves into Sierra's history?

@dosnostalgic Doesn't seem to be Amiga either. Maybe they just dubbed some other music? Maybe even due to copyright issues...? No idea...

@dosnostalgic this is Fritz 1? I used to have Fritz 2 as a kid, to practice playing. Was brutally good. Never beat it. :)

It’s faaaaast. #commodore #commodoreamiga #pistorm

TRSI have published this Wolf3D like game for the unexpanded C64:

https://youtu.be/cL0nH3UTl7k

#demoscene #commodore #c64

@dosnostalgic is that text mode? Looks funky.

It lives again!

@dosnostalgic debug and edlin are missing. IIRC they were part of PC DOS from the very beginning. Also BASICA should probably be counted.

@dosnostalgic Oh I see. I also foresee that Mr Giles will get some problems if he doesn't share source code. I assume that he is using some open source libraries or projects in there -- or maybe I am mistaken. However I doubt he wrote a DOS & Win32 emulation layer from scratch, together with all the other emulated hardware -- but of course I could be wrong, and maybe he did! I can see people writing their own emulators, but the scope that his project covers seems HUGE.

@dosnostalgic Is this written from scratch, i.e. without ScummVM code? Also, I wish someone would make a SCUMM interpreter for old, OCS Amigas, at least for the older games up to Monkey2/Indy4. The ports by Lucasfilm back then were not good...