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GitHub – oldcompcz/SpaceAssault: DOS space shooter in ASCII.

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/05

Cool [WayBack] GitHub – oldcompcz/SpaceAssault: DOS space shooter in ASCII. written in pure C using Turbo C.

You can likely compile this using this:

[WayBack] Turbo C++ or C for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 32/64-bit Full Screen Free Download – CodePlex Archive

The download is actually a small Windows wrapper around Turbo C++ 3.2: github.com/vineetchoudhary/turbocpp/releases.

Via: [WayBack] Space Assault Game The complete source code of very nice ascii-art invaders is now at GitHub. This game of Roman Hocke won second place in the High-Voltage 2017 competition… – Jaroslav Beran – Google+

–jeroen

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Apple Tesseract 1992 prototype (not Tessaract)

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/23

A while ago that bitsavers published a picture of an Apple 1992 Tesseract Motherboard.

It’s from the 68k to PowerPC RISC transition Apple made in the second half of the 1980s and first half of the 1990s where several groups within Apple were working on new equipment.

More details of those are here:

Note this is not [Wayback] TesSeRact from the DOS TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) days:

Via [Wayback] Ralf Brown’s Files

Downloadable files by Ralf Brown:x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, RBcomm, SPAWNO, AMISLIB, DV-GLUE, RBdualVGA,RBkeyswap, RBspeed, PCICFG, CMU-EBMT. (20aug10)

 

–jeroen

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Posted in 68k, History, MS-DOS, Power User, PowerPC, Tesseract, TSR Terminate and Stay Resitent | Leave a Comment »

20 years ago today: Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/24

An eternal Dilbert strip that is based on the tiny Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer fragment from single.h:

#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32
#error "Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer."
#endif

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Posted in *nix, ARM, Assembly Language, Delphi, Delphi 1, Development, Fun, Geeky, History, MS-DOS, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 8.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, x86 | 2 Comments »

em-dosbox: Internet Archive port of DOSBOX in your Browser. Each New Boot a Miracle « ASCII by Jason Scott

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/27

Wow. Just wow. DOSBOX in a web browser.

Read this: Each New Boot a Miracle « ASCII by Jason Scott.

Then play with this: dreamlayers/em-dosbox or the integrated version here: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos

–jeroen

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