I have been making some progress on the new setup utility. (finally) I'm also having some real trouble with the attribute bits in monochrome text mode though. Conflicting and confusing information and tables about these can found on the web. In addition, PCem set to emulate a MDA or Hercules card …

I just started programming a new FDSETUP from scratch which will be buildable using 16-bit Open Watcom, and which will just draw everything on the fly instead of using predefined data from object files generated byLaughing Dog, with support for both colour and monochrome text mode. We'll see if it …

Plus, of course, overall gameplay and maps, monsters AI, etc. These things can be transferred without any loss. SNES port code, by the way, was written just by one person, and within a really tight deadline. But now I don't think anyone would be interested in rewriting so much code for this slow …

Can Open Watcom even target 286 protected mode? DJGPP for sure can't. Where to get the DOS extender? DOS/4GW & many compatibles are free to use, but they are for >=386 only. DOS/16M is the 286 pmode extender from the same company (Rational/Tenberry) as DOS/4G(W) but I don't think it was ever …

OMG this is f*cking awesome!! I think it's better if you create a pull request, i'll test it and add it as soon as possible. Removing the Borland Turbo Assembler requirement is a huge step, it'll make this project much more open source friendly. This way will allow us to create a fully open source …

If you want to port the ASM files to NASM it will very welcome. It's done now, though I'm unable to test the 16-bit sound mixing code. It SHOULD work, I just made the exact same changes as to 8-bit. I can also go create a github account and make a pull request if you'd prefer that. WATCOM_BUILD …

Was there any way to unlock the framerate or any "source ports" for the DOS/Win9x machines? I know for sure DOS Boom and DOS MBF don't have uncapped framerate. DOSDoom and Doom Legacy I'm not sure about, last time I used either was too long ago, but my guess is no. I'd say that if any DOS port …

I converted (hand-conveted since I couldn't get some kind of automated tasm2nasm tool I found to work properly) linear.asm from TASM to NASM 2.1x.x compatible a few months ago, to cross-compile a quick hacky little Doom port for testing stuff w/o requiring any tools which don't run natively on my " …

Doom never runs at 60fps, at least if using the original vanilla engine. It is capped at 35fps. (same for Heretic, Hexen and Strife) ...well unless you count -timedemo mode.

As mentioned above, Doom shareware (and old 3-episode registered version) and Doom 2 use the same executables. First version with complete Doom 2 support is v1.666. There are actually two slightly different variants of v1.666 (I think one was bundled with Doom 2, one you got via patching Doom 1) but …

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Were there ever any quadrophonic Audio CDs? They must be extremely rare if they exist at all. Wikipedia claims four channel support was dropped when CDs became a proper IEC standard. is PLAY AUDIO command passed directly to the drive? is mscdex validating passed data against TOC? I just did a quick …

modifying https://github.com/adoxa/shsucd to add virtual audio tracks support and routine sending UDP control packet to a dedicated network server running on a rpi seems like the easiest solution. rpi could store mp3/ogg versions of those audio tracks to further help with storage, or directly read …

I wouldn't use TCP/IP for something like this - it's too heavy. UDP is a much simpler protocol that will work fine on a local network, and it is simple enough to redo it in assembly. (I'm planning my own shared drive letter device driver for mTCP that will use UDP or ATA over Ethernet to a Linux …

Interesting. Maybe you could use mTCP ? Or would even this be too much ? mTCP seems to be written C++ and also seems to be something which needs to be built into (linked with) the program using it. I'm no expert on DOS programming (on the contrary) but seems to me .sys programs really are best …

Hello everyone. For the past few days, I've been programming a CD-ROM driver .sys for MSCDEX (or compatibles) which uses CD images (cue/bin format) stored on another machine, accessed via a serial port. Yeah, I started before I found this thread and info about upcoming hardware CD emulators. …