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Re: DOS game programming

Posted on 2011-04-16, 10:13

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Gemini000: Is Powerbasic not the compiler of one of the two basic versions, you have mentioned ? or am I wrong about that , cause I seem to remember a friend mentioning to me, that Powerbasic could compile one of the two. PowerBASIC is just another of the many versions of BASIC that exist for both …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-04-16, 10:02

Ancient DOS Games Episode 42 - Round 42 is online! I'm sure a lot of people expected me to review Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, but I have a pretty good reason for not reviewing it, which I address in the episode. This is also one of the extremely few old games I know of that uses the hacked …

Re: DOS game programming

Posted on 2011-04-15, 15:46

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I actually still use QuickBASIC for a few things, mostly just to quickly check some complex math calculations when I'm designing a game. Recently, for the game I'm currently working on outside of work on ADG, I had to balance out the average amount of money you could earn based on the difficulty of …

Re: DOS game programming

Posted on 2011-04-15, 12:21

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Tyrian is also one of the few games to utilize a 16-bit DOS extender Really? How does that work? Memory addresses in DOS have always technically been 32-bit, in that you have both a segment address and then the address within that segment, both of which were 16-bit values. All an "extender" does …

Re: DOS game programming

Posted on 2011-04-14, 17:15

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Well, there's a couple ways you can go about this, and it's important to figure out right from the start if you want to work within the 640K limit, or go for something that uses more. Working under the 640K limit, you're probably going to end up doing much of the hard work yourself, such as …

Re: Unreleased Crusader 2006 PSP remake

Posted on 2011-04-10, 01:49

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If I was EA, I would've been uninspired by that gameplay footage too. Now don't get me wrong, a modern version of the Crusader games would be epic, especially if the rest of the music in the finished game followed the level of quality they had going there, but what they showed of the gameplay seemed …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-04-09, 03:25

Ancient DOS Games Episode 41 - Teen Agent is online! Also, I find it hilarious that about two hours after I posted about the website being super-slow, despite the fact it had lasted for over a day, it once again started going its right speed. Go figure. ;) As for today's ADG Episode, I'm finding it …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-04-04, 16:54

I've been looking into the issues with my website which I just posted about minutes ago and it turns out it could be just me. I realized this when I discovered no related news topics related to my web hosting provider and also found I couldn't connect to anything hosted by www.dreamhost.com either, …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-04-04, 15:41

Yes, I am aware that my website has been going super-slow for over a day now for many people, to the point of timeout errors. This is a problem with my webhosting provider and there's very little I can do about it at the moment. >_>; If you wait long enough, it still works. Hopefully this will all …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-04-02, 03:26

Ancient DOS Games Filler #6 - My Tandy 1000SX Computer is online! This is not really so much an informative look at the system but rather just digging the thing out and giving it a run to show how it works and what gameplay was like on it. I had to connect it to my television instead of its RGB …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-03-26, 18:35

F2bnp wrote: Great episode as always, since you referred to Bullfrog strategy games, ever played Syndicate and Syndicate Wars? Yes, but a very long time ago and for some reason, they confused me back then. I think I'd have better luck trying them again now that I'm way past childhood. :P

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-03-26, 14:35

Before anyone gets too far off-track, Ancient DOS Games Episode 40 - Command & Conquer is online! Nothing much to say ahead of time other than that I suck at strategy games (except the ones made by Bullfrog which I'm awesome at) which is why it's taken me so long to get to one. :P Gemini000: He who …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-03-19, 16:46

Gemini000: I was about to ask you, if you had a masochistic feeling today, cause I was about to nominate this game as the "shite of the month", until I saw the "playground", and I got a flashback to my childhood in Copenhagen , in the area Vesterbro . And it dawned upon me, back then the …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-03-19, 07:39

Ancient DOS Games Episode 39 - Donald Duck's Playground is online! I still sound a little sick in this episode but I am doing much better than last week at least. (Last week I managed to get the voiceover done BEFORE I got really sick.) One big thing though is that I finally have an RSS feed going …

Re: TEN

Posted on 2011-03-17, 13:17

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Didn't "TEN" stand for something like the Total Entertainment Network or something like that? (I'm just guessing, I haven't looked it up.) I remember that while the internet was still fledgling there were all kinds of services like that, the other two I remember offhand being HEAT and DWANGO. ...I …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-03-13, 01:39

You people can be crazy sometimes. XD But yes, Ancient DOS Games Episode 38 - Sango Fighter is finally online... a few hours late, but oh well. I've been pretty sick the past few days, and I had some personal matters to attend to Thursday and Friday that were keeping me from doing any work, so I was …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-03-05, 07:39

Ancient DOS Games Episode 37 - Major Stryker is online! Not too much to say about this one that I didn't cover in the video itself, though I do want to note that the next episode, Episode 38, might be a little late. I'm gonna be away from my computer all of Thursday and almost all of Friday, which …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-02-26, 13:46

Ancient DOS Games Episode 36 - Tank Wars is online! A lot of new people guessed today's episode correctly. I'll take that as a good sign that more people are watching the show! :) The first time I played Scorched Earth, I hated it. I couldn't tell what I was doing because the tanks were so tiny, the …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-02-19, 13:34

Gemini000: I love your hair, cause I thought I was the only geek/nerd with a "heavy hairdo" . And I am planning on getting it even longer, so I can call it "Swedish Yarn" again , meaning the old heavy hairdo was the long haired hairdo. Also The Swedish Yarn reference is an "old" Danish expression …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-02-19, 08:58

Just saw the NES "Wiggle" video show up on blip as I was watching your other episodes, awesome stuff yet again. Thank you kindly for the shout-out! Hehe, I was hoping you'd enjoy the Top 17 Worst Games, after seeing several of those reviewed by you. Yup. I'm actually enjoying most of them, but that …

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