This is part two, go read part 1 first. Last time we set up FreeDOS and installed DJGPP and RHIDE. Now let’s go through how to use them and write some simple programs. I am going to assume you know how to use DOS. If not, all you need to know is how to make…
The modern world is far too complex. Software has become piles of APIs stacked on top of each other, running on virtual machines inside browsers. Even the CPUs themselves are too complex for anyone to understand. Let’s ditch all that complicated nonsense and go back to a time when computers were complex enough to be…
I decide that doing DOS development means I need a real computer, rather than an emulator. I have an old laptop, surely making it run DOS can’t be that hard, right? The device in question is this. It’s an IBM ThinkPad R60e. It says IBM on the lid, it says IBM in the BIOS, but…
In this video, I’ll show you how I built a tilemap system from scratch in C for the Agon Light, and integrated it into my existing game engine. Getting the physics engine to handle collisions with the tilemap was no easy task, but I’ll walk you through how I made it work. On top of…
… because it’s so realistic you still have to put up with the same problems you had 30 years ago… Ah yes, that’ll be the problem, something ate the system.ini file, because of course it did, didn’t it There’s some 30 year old muscle memory going on here, if I don’t think I can drive…
From the mind that brought you “let’s try to write games using just pure C” I have a new idea for making my life difficult. Let’s write DOS software using period correct tools… This is just me organising a thought, I’ve not started yet. Further research will be needed – or in other words, if…
Join me on a journey as I attempt to write a game for my Agon Light using nothing but raw C programming. In this second episode I figure out how to make a very basic 2D rigid body physics system work. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have an Agon Light, I’m bringing you along…
Join me on a journey as I attempt to write a game for my Agon Light using nothing but raw C programming. In this first episode I figure out what kind of game to make, look at some shareware games of the past and get a basic game engine working, using nothing but C code…
So my main PC that I do all my video editing, programming and anything more complex than talking rubbish on Discord died. Totally dead. How it died is a story for this video and involved me, a new NVMe SSD and a screwdriver. It wasn’t too bad because I’d been looking for an excuse to…