Good idea. I'm in that group and I am pretty sure I watched that video.

I'm building a Tandy 1000 game library and have the graphics under control but am now looking at sound. The Miles Sound system is great as I can leave the heavy lifting up to it but the midi playback sounds bad without some basic ADSR for bell sounds and vibrato etc. I know its CPU intensive but is …

I got my Tandy 1000 graphics library working on Open Watcom and my sprite compiler is working better than ever.

Hey reengine, I'm a huge fan of yours and am doing off and on development for Tandy 1000 specifically. I just got your GNU C++ compiler working on CodeBench and am trying to create a hello world program. Whenever I call printf it hangs using DOSBox. I can do other basic things such as malloc, strcpy …

My goal is to use my iPad as a cheap Sound Canvas with my Tandy 1000TL to play old Sierra games with MT32 music. I'd like to try it on the Atari ST first as it has midi out. So how can I do midi from the ST to the iPad Sound Canvas app?

Was there ever an x86 console or coin op system?

I have this app. Will it work with this Bluetooth midi converter? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016PHN7CO?psc=1

In the late 1980s SGI made a 3D board for PCs with 16 bit ISA slots, I will have to see if I can dig up the info on it. I am not sure how fast it would be, but I imagine for it to even be worthwhile you'd need a 386 minimum. I don't think an XT class machine has either the bus bandwidth or the CPU …

8086s/8088s typically already struggle with 2D. :) Right. The point of an accelerator is to offload the cpu. Modern games run on the gpu with pixel and vertex shaders offering fully programmable pipelines. I'd settle for a fixed function pipeline such as found in old versions of direct X when …

Wouldn't it be cool to have a 3D card in an eight bit machine? Something like the old Monster 3D. Could that be built with fpga? I want one for my Tandy 1000TL with a 286 chip but 8 bit bus.

Thanks. I'd like to get one and plug it into a Tandy 1000 tl which has eight bit slots and see if I can write a 320x200 15bpp game demo. Then I'll do the same in my Tandy 1000 RSX which is a 386sx 25. I'd also like to take this list and determine which can run in a 8 bit slot.

Are there any hicolor isa cards? 16 bit is ok. Thanks.

Excellent blog. Do you make any money off of it? It would be nice if you could somehow.

I have a Tandy CM-11 for my TL and HX 1000s and am borrowing my brothers Amiga monitor for my 600. I want to get a vga monitor. There is nothing like the sound of a CRT powering up or down to bring back memories and the warm and fuzzy (pun intended) can't be beat. I had a CM-5 as a kid and the CM-11 …

Reengine, you and Trixter are my heroes. I'll put out something interesting at some point that pushes my Tandy 1000HX and TL to the max. Including source. Right now I am working on a street fighter 2 concept and have compiled sprites and full screen scrolling working at 12fps. I am going to try …

Nostalgia comes and goes. I was into 80s music for a while and almost bought an old IROC Z to rebuild but they were so crappy I just couldn't do it. I drive a 2013 Corvette so the bar is high. I have been flying an old airplane for two years and the airplane ownership and training hobby got a bit …

On that thread OP did said about using bsave/bload format, which just a memory dump + header. I imagine he using the common "REP MOVSW" assembly instruction for each alternating frame. I remember seeing varous CGA games where the interleaves are still visible especially at 4.77 MHz, even when the …