DOS Games Discussion

I'll start by quoting Nuke.YKT first: Hi, To celebrate 30th anniversary of Raptor, gamesrc-ver-recreation project now covers all known EXE revisions of Raptor. As a reminder, gamesrc-ver-recreation is a project which aims to reconstruct EXEs of various games accurately as possible using their releas...

I'll ask a somewhat unrelated question: consider someone wanted to build a limit-removing Heretic binary from the source, what code changes are required to accomplish that? I haven't done the right work on the sources to know the answer for sure. You might get a possible answer if you check the cha...

Hi, I'm having additions to the wolf3d repository after more than 6.5 years, covering two added revisions of code. But there are also a few more general points to add: - The various repositories aren't submodules of the "gamesrc-ver-recreation" repository itself anymore. Nuke.YKT and I hav...

To begin with, that was supposed to go earlier: As always, great work! Thanks for showing interest again! Now, for a small update, after bringing up the topic of running a reconstructed Doom v0.99/1.0 binary that uses APODMX, Nuke.YKT realized that APODMX was incompatible with v0.99/1.0. That was co...

Here's another quote of text from Nuke.YKT: To celebrate upcoming doom's 30th anniversary gamesrc-ver-recreation now covers original shareware v0.99/v1.0 release https://bitbucket.org/gamesrc-ver-recreation/doom And so, Nuke.YKT decided to go even further than version 1.2, all the way back to the ve...

Going to quote Nuke.YKT again: Update to the Strife restoration A couple more revisions of the Strife executable are covered now: registered v1.1(aka v1.0) and registered v1.2. Both reconstructed EXEs are identical to the original EXE files (up to garbage data between string literals and differences...

Having some updates, both major and minor. - Thanks to Nuke.YKT's efforts, Doom and Strife are now both covered. He used the Heretic sources and other sources in order to transform Linux Doom into faithful Final Doom DOS sources. I added older Doom versions to the tree, and occasionally also assiste...

So, it's possible that anybody who tries to cover all versions from a single EXE might find it difficult to do so at this point. That is, unless you go for what I did in Reflection Wolfenstein 3D, as it more-or-less covers separate builds of different game versions in a single exe. As of this post, ...

Hey there, I've gotten another addition for the Hexen repository. To make this short, it should now cover code which is more-or-less fully equivalent in behaviors to the 4-level beta (Oct 2 1995). I also forgot to mention here earlier, that before working on Heretic 1.0-1.2, I also covered a later 4...

ok, I don't know if this is the game the OP was looking for. As for me, though, looks like I've finally found this one after many years! Basically, it's a 1985 game titled "Young Math". Although I couldn't find it in MobyGames, it was found in Universal Videogame List: https://www.uvlist.n...

While I don't have any definitive answer, I stumbled upon this topic after a search related to a game which I similarly don't remember much about, not even its name. I have no idea if it's the same game, but I'll write some details which I recall, in case any of these helps: - First of all, this is ...

Hi all, Let me write about a collection of repositories, found here: https://bitbucket.org/gamesrc-ver-recreation/ What you can find in these repositories for most is reverse-engineering of code related to DOS games. However, rather than reversing a whole DOS game, what I usually do here is reverse ...

Hey there, I'm mostly known as NY00123 around places like forums that revolve around video games (usually old ones). While I was originally just into playing games many years ago, related coding works were gradually becoming more common. Some form of reverse-engineering also has its shares of time. ...