deater

plan: as a joke, port Apple II "Peasant's Quest" to DOS for the CGA Jam, how hard could it be...

I'm re-learning a lot of Turbo Pascal at least. I actually would have had a playable Proof-of-Concept by now if work wasn't over-the-top busy this semester.

Mar 5 at 2:50amWeb
Show threaddeaterMar 5

for those curious, the dialog box is the wrong size because I forgot to init a variable to 0 and I am spoiled by modern compilers which warn you of that.

the weird glitches in the text are because I use chars above 128 to substitute common words (to save space) and I haven't gotten around to implementing that properly in the print routine yet

Show threaddeaterMar 6

there's something oddly satisfying about graphcis glitches on 1980s hardware

in the end it was a combination of an out-of-date lookup table and an off-by-one error

Show thread4am ❧Mar 6
@deater78 ship it
Show threadAri SovijärviMar 5

@deater78 Ah, Turbo Pascal.

I was there too, 3000 years ago!