Dos demos windows ports..
category: general [glöplog]
I have a suggestion..
I like dos demos from the earliy days, and im fond of win-ports.
Im probably not the only one...
Anyone care to set up a site where people can try make win-ports of old dos demos? Of course that means they have too put up their old sourcecode, if any has laying around on their old cd's, disks or hd's.
Any if anyone wants too they can try make a winport out of it.
Ive seen that has been done allready with State of mind, TBL demos, Square / Pulse and many others..
But there's a list of demos from the early dos days that I believe wants to see daylight again...
I like dos demos from the earliy days, and im fond of win-ports.
Im probably not the only one...
Anyone care to set up a site where people can try make win-ports of old dos demos? Of course that means they have too put up their old sourcecode, if any has laying around on their old cd's, disks or hd's.
Any if anyone wants too they can try make a winport out of it.
Ive seen that has been done allready with State of mind, TBL demos, Square / Pulse and many others..
But there's a list of demos from the early dos days that I believe wants to see daylight again...
Robotnik
Hplus, 73 million seconds.
Robotnik works under dosbox.
Robotnik works under dosbox.
would be a good idea indeed.
and vice versa? ;)
ROBOTNIK (iirc it runs slow under dosbox)
And imho, watching demos in dosbox is fine, though I prefer windows ports of all these DOS demos, even for those who run great in DosBox. Some friends have still serious problems with DosBox (they reducing cycles in very rediculous values till the sound doesn't break anymore) even if they have a theoritically faster hardware than mine. A winport will be always smooth enough!
..my english suck ;P
Please make DC ports of old DOS demos. KTHXLOLOMGBBQ
More ports for GP32,. oh no we had already enough of these here ;)
hello freeze, almost forgot, what happens with that DC diskmag btw?
Robotnik.
And Acme - 303 .
A masterpiece.
And Acme - 303 .
A masterpiece.
There's allready a port for acme's 303 and its on the mindcandy demodvd as well. We'll there should be put up a site for these things including a list of the allready ported demos.
Dos-box doesn't seem to work very well on many dos demos.. I prefer ports instead, don't you?
Dos-box doesn't seem to work very well on many dos demos.. I prefer ports instead, don't you?
Juice by Psychic Link
CNCD vs Orange
Event Horizon by SD
Alien 2 by Scoopex
Jest by Camorra
CNCD vs Orange
Event Horizon by SD
Alien 2 by Scoopex
Jest by Camorra
a site with all the ported demos would be good.
but I think also that many (if not all) the demos of the old days (dos) could be run on dosbox or qemu (I remeber a 'demopack' from someone some time ago, using qemu and a virtual disk image).
but I think also that many (if not all) the demos of the old days (dos) could be run on dosbox or qemu (I remeber a 'demopack' from someone some time ago, using qemu and a virtual disk image).
Too bad dosbox doesn't support any low-res VESA modes, so just about nothing from 1998-2001 works.
what's more important than porting stuff to windows is porting stuff to osx!
... until x86 apple computer enter the game
Ports ruin demos! Get an old computer you separatist bastard!
I'm not posting until february from now on!
I'm not posting until february from now on!
port everything to gameboy.
also all demos should run on mobile phones.
All demos should come with a machine that runs them. And some drugs. For free...
Preacher: dosbox maybe doesn't (I don't know if the latest patches do), but qemu definitely does.
Second Reality & Panic
Wouldn't it be better to do avi's of all the old stuff and use your energy to make new cool demos instead? I don't remember any Amiga 500 ports of c64 cracktros from 1991... (yeah yeah, I'm sure there are a couple but you get my point)
