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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2021-09-03, 11:56

The author of SIMCGA is still around on the VCFED forums, but IIRC neither he nor Sydex hold the copyright any longer, so while I might be wrong I doubt he could help. Same story as with Teledisk/Anadisk. Also I see no theoretical reason why this couldn't be done using a modern free assembler like …

Re: Happy 40th IBM PC

Posted on 2021-08-17, 20:07

in Milliways
For the same occasion... anyone had a look at the results of PCjam? https://pcjam.gitlab.io/ Not all of these are new, but there's some neat stuff in there - although at least three of these don't quite run properly (or at all) on the original hardware. 😉

Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-06-30, 18:41

in Milliways
If 32-bit is dead, it's in good company. The internet is pretty thoroughly deceased, too, but we still keep on using it. 😉

Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-20, 20:28

in Milliways
xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-06-20, 08:25: Settings is confusing, takes way more clicks than the Control Panel, displays way less information for the same window size, and has to go. When your average 80x25 text mode DOS program is better at using screen real-estate than a modern UI, that modern UI is …

Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-16, 20:04

in Milliways
Seeing exactly zero changes/additions that would make a meaningful difference when using the OS on an actual PC. Not very surprising, since that hasn't been anywhere near their list of priorities for over a decade. Why, it looks like they barely even bothered to make it substantially *worse* on PCs …

Re: Dominus: A New Font for DOS

Posted on 2021-06-06, 14:41

in Milliways
Nice work! Let me know if I could add it to the collection at https://github.com/viler-int10h/vga-text-mode-fonts 😉 (Also, if you often edit fonts under DOS, feel free to check out my font editor for some neat features).

Re: My DosBox tools

Posted on 2021-05-13, 19:35

Hi Dave, Good to see the new site. Appreciate the update - lots of these tiny utils will be very useful, not only in DOSBox (or DOS-on-Win64) but for my memory-limited XT as well. And lest I forget, thanks for writing ImageDisk. That just might be your most popular program as of late, but it's a …

Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2021-04-30, 18:51

CGA doesn't have a genuine monochrome mode, Mode 5 still outputs colors when connected to a RGBI monitor (which it's what I'm currently developing for). Mode 6 is genuinely monochrome on RGBI, you'll just have to use pattern dithering. If you pretend that it's mode 4 or 5 (i.e. you write the exact …

Re: [8-Bit Guy] What Happened to America's Electronics Stores?

Posted on 2021-04-03, 15:56

in Milliways
On top of that, they circumvent the product placement algorithms by farming with teams of people generating fake reviews and returns to push their products to the top and get competitors banned. Check out this short documentary: https://youtu.be/vOj-tRTbFfY Judging by the ridiculous amounts of …

Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2021-03-28, 21:59

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If nobody complains, nothing is likely to ever change . Mandating a distinguishing mark on cables based on functionality would put to rest 95% of my gripes (and likely also most of those expressed by other people) . This. I don't really get the type of comment that goes "you may not like it, but …

Re: 8" diskette drives on IBM PC

Posted on 2021-03-28, 21:25

in Milliways
Weren't there plenty of third-party 8" external drives for the IBM PC back when it was new? Data exchange, and all that. Funnily enough, SCP's original 86-DOS supported 8" disks before Microsoft ported it for IBM, so I'd be surprised if it's DOS itself which makes the job difficult.

Re: Emulation of x86 PCs of former East Germany?

Posted on 2021-03-19, 00:19

in PC Emulation
https://a7100-emulation.gitlab.io/html/news.html wow, that's cool ! and from the screenshots - gfx power :) ... it's itching in the fingers to do some demo coding :) I'll be sure to keep an eye open for the upcoming 7100KMH, then :) That video board sure has nice mono graphics at 640x400 in 4 …

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