Hallo Herr Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel, am Freitag, 28. März 2025 um 12:55 schrieben Sie:
> 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. absolutely amazing coding skills. (Possibly) Shrinking the app by 600k is absolutely remarkable. > The question is does it have a possibility to replace dosdef.com in FreeDOS > 1.4? No. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
