The old shareware game Darwin's Arena has both CGA and Tandy versions. The Tandy version uses 3 voice sound and white noise. It ran flawlessly up to and including version 0.74. Somehow the patches made on 0.74-2 have introduced a high-pitched noise that lasts for a few seconds after every use of …

I am surprised. All these years I thought the version in TVdog's archive was the same as the one I have, but it isn't. A quick look at "old game" sites didn't turn it up. I have a Zip file of the full version that I can email to you or post somewhere. Looks like just 3 extra files, ninja16.exe, id. …

It may a different bug, bug similar. It sounds similar to what almeath described in the first post. So far the only Tandy game affected is Darwin's Arena, which was compiled in QuickBASIC using assembly routines by a guy named Joe Albrecht to access the Tandy sound and graphics modes. Only one other …

I know this is months late, but I just noticed this bug in 0.74-2 in the Darwin's Arena game. The bug is not there in 0.74 and earlier versions, at least not on my system, which is 64 bit. I am going to poke around with some of the recent SVN builds and see what I can find out.

Well better to reply 8 months late than not at all I guess! Ninja uses the 16 color mode on PCjr or Tandy mode, but only if you run the .bat file included with the game. This batch file runs a small utility before the game, which identifies the machine as PCjr or Tandy. THis enables the 16 colors. …