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? _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
