Hi, > On Mar 28, 2025, at 7:56 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Remember that dosdef ( > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.4/pkg-html/dosdef.html > ). > In previous messages, I found that actually, it does go to a blue screen when > launched without a joystick on many computers (QEMU, VirtualBox), > because joystick detection is a bit broken. > > At first I was to just fix the joystick detection... but I began to rewrite > almost fully the code, giving me more like a still not good game based on > the original: https://github.com/dufresnep/dosdefender (defender.exe in bin > directory) > > My new version only begin to work... can move the ship with arrows key (but > not very good)... and shoot with fire. > > There is one kind of enemies... was thinking to add the green enemies of > original game that seems to be unable to shoot, > so when it, try to collide with your ship. But did not yet. > > Also, no sound yet. > > But still... for most people, replacing current dosdef.com by my defender.exe > file, would allows them to play a game, as most > people don't have a joystick. > > Admittedly, original game was about 20kb, and now the default version is 1.4 > Mb... but can be stripped to 800kb. > > The question is does it have a possibility to replace dosdef.com in FreeDOS > 1.4?
No. 1.4 is only a few days away. Only absolutely critical changes at this point will be made. I’m not even sure if XCOPY 1.9 will be in the upcoming release. At minimum, the 1.8b version that was recently released will be included. The stack overflow bug was a critical problem. It actually would cause problems during installation of the OS when the upgraded to 1.4 from an up to date version of 1.3 and choose to backup their existing OS files. Although 1.9 is an important update, I personally don’t see it as a critical fix. There is not likely to be many users copying files that are 2Gb or larger under DOS. Most are not likely to even have file systems large enough to perform the copy. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
