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SDL Now Supports DOS

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Re: SDL Now Supports DOS

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Post by mananaysiempre »

ronsor wrote: post #2

All that's left now is SDL for UEFI, and then all our games can run in a pre-OS environment.

That... Shouldn’t be terribly difficult? Though I don’t believe UEFI has sound drivers (you’ll have problems writing one yourself because even frickin’ sound-codec chips have NDA-only datasheets these days), and the stupidest thing is that the “graphics output protocol” doesn’t indicate vsync so you can’t do tear-free blitting, which is literally worse than VGA.

Re: SDL Now Supports DOS

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Post by pjmlp »

ronsor wrote: post #2

All that's left now is SDL for UEFI, and then all our games can run in a pre-OS environment.

Welcome to Amiga games, in many cases the floppy would contain the boot loader that would directly jump into the game.

At least on the Amiga 500 you would not go through the trouble to start Workbench, only to load the game, unless you were a lucky owner of an external hard drive.

Re: SDL Now Supports DOS

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Post by markus_zhang »

pjmlp wrote: post #54
ronsor wrote: post #2

All that's left now is SDL for UEFI, and then all our games can run in a pre-OS environment.

Welcome to Amiga games, in many cases the floppy would contain the boot loader that would directly jump into the game. At least on the Amiga 500 you would not go through the trouble to start Workbench, only to load the game, unless you were a lucky owner of an external hard drive.

I recall many IBM-PC games are bootable games. I inserted a floppy , resets the computer, and then it directly boots into the game. The disk must contain a boot sector and drivers and such.

Re: SDL Now Supports DOS

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Post by [deleted] »

chaps wrote: post #3
ronsor wrote: post #2

All that's left now is SDL for UEFI, and then all our games can run in a pre-OS environment.

That honestly sounds amazing. Imagine booting into something like a grub menu that's just a list of classic games.

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Re: SDL Now Supports DOS

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Post by psychoslave »

bpavuk wrote: post #34
jlokier wrote: post #30

Perfect! I was just doing some Turbo C development inside DOSBox-X inside Debian GNU/Linux inside VMware Fusion inside macOS this morning.

you may also enjoy watching Inception then :)

Almost but usually I watch live stream of people watching records of people talking about how they remember about it.

Re: SDL Now Supports DOS

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Post by floxy »

ronsor wrote: post #2

All that's left now is SDL for UEFI, and then all our games can run in a pre-OS environment.

What's the latest with Intel's Management Engine / Minix that runs on every Intel chipset? Is that still a thing? Did they harden it? Or can you still get access?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-op...

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