I put out another little game - 99Things.
A find-a-thing puzzler for 8088/256KB RAM/CGA with mouse, adlib support written in Quickbasic 4.5
Https://4am.org/99
Source code on github https://github.com/techdistractions/99
4xtx wrote on 2025-04-19, 11:50:I put out another little game - 99Things. A find-a-thing puzzler for 8088/256KB RAM/CGA with mouse, adlib support written in Qu […]
I put out another little game - 99Things.
A find-a-thing puzzler for 8088/256KB RAM/CGA with mouse, adlib support written in Quickbasic 4.5
Https://4am.org/99
Source code on github https://github.com/techdistractions/99
It looks lovely, thanks for sharing!
Here's my current list of open source DOS games (including those with reconstructed/reverse-engineered code), in spreadsheet format. There are about 260 entries currently.
It looks like some DOS adventure games' source code is only available as part of ScummVM now. Not sure if this is a good thing or not.
Gates of Skeldal / Brány Skeldalu recently got a Steam re-release, with native Windows and Linux versions plus an English translation (the game was originally in Czech only), and now the source code is also re-released under the MIT license:
https://github.com/ondra-novak/gates_of_skeldal
I tried to ask Jindřich Rohlík (I believe it is him who did the re-release of the game) via the Steam discussion board whether the original freeware DOS release of the game was still legit, but so far I got no reply, leaving this matter unclarified.
Don't know where to put this yet, but 'Ghini Run is one of those weird QuickBASIC games that uses DS4QB++ for sound and music output, which essentially redirected those to Windows sound APIs (assuming that the game was run in Windows and not in pure DOS). Naturally, this does not work in DOSBox at all, forcing to play without sound and/or music.
However, I was hoping that someone maybe came up with a solution for this problem, and just now I found this, but it's not based on DOSBox. They have a gallery of sample games, including 'Ghini Run, which works perfectly and much faster than in JS-DOS.
I certainly do not have the skills to do it, but perhaps someone would be interested enough to either re-implement this for DOSBox or maybe at least make a non-browser implementation using the same emulator as this project's author.
Here's another Allegro DOS/Win game w/ source in C called Crystal Stacker:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020205030155/ht … csdownload.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20181116115358/ht … crystal_stacker (working downloads)
https://www.allegro.cc/depot/CrystalStacker/ (working downloads)
MrFlibble wrote on 2025-06-24, 13:39:Here's another Allegro DOS/Win game w/ source in C called Crystal Stacker: https://web.archive.org/web/20020205030155/ht … csdow […]
Here's another Allegro DOS/Win game w/ source in C called Crystal Stacker:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020205030155/ht … csdownload.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20181116115358/ht … crystal_stacker (working downloads)
https://www.allegro.cc/depot/CrystalStacker/ (working downloads)
allegro.cc was (and still is) great for these 'amateur' projects, some of which are very good, it's also something of a nostalgia hit as websites go
BTW, Crystal Stacker devs' site is still up:
https://tcubedsoftware.com/scripts/pages/proj … crystal_stacker
gerry wrote on 2025-06-25, 08:12:allegro.cc was (and still is) great for these 'amateur' projects, some of which are very good, it's also something of a nostalgia hit as websites go
Sure, but it takes a while to find ones that run under DOS. Also some games did not find their way to allegro.cc.
Either way, it seems that only the Windows version of Crystal Stacker uses Allegro, as the DOS one does not even require CWSDPMI.
I just learned that @cyningstan released the source code of Barren Planet:
https://github.com/cyningstan/barren
