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  • New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

    From Juan@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 9 08:46:59 2023
    Hi,

    I used DJGPP back in the 90s, and was a life changing experience for me:
    my first contact with GCC and free software.

    I never managed to finish any games back then, but I have released one recently, and the source code is available in case anyone is interested:

    https://git.usebox.net/gold-mine-run/about/

    There are also binaries available here:

    https://www.usebox.net/jjm/gold-mine-run/

    Thank you DJ Delorie for DJGPP!

    Kind regards,

    Juan

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  • From [via djgpp@delorie.com]" @21:1/5 to Juan on Sun Sep 10 19:33:47 2023
    On 2023-09-09 09:46, Juan wrote:
    Hi,

    I used DJGPP back in the 90s, and was a life changing experience for me: my first contact with GCC and free software.

    I never managed to finish any games back then, but I have released one recently, and the source code is available in case anyone is interested:

    https://git.usebox.net/gold-mine-run/about/

    There are also binaries available here:

    https://www.usebox.net/jjm/gold-mine-run/

    Thank you DJ Delorie for DJGPP!

    Kind regards,

    Juan

    Looks neat, and it gets difficult pretty quick! Thanks for sharing!

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  • From [via djgpp@delorie.com]" @21:1/5 to djgpp on Mon Sep 11 18:58:28 2023
    To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net (freedos-user)
    Copy: usenet@usebox.net.invalid (Juan)

    ---- Le sam., 09 sept. 2023 03:46:59 -0400 Juan a écrit ----
    Hi,

    I used DJGPP back in the 90s, and was a life changing experience for me:
    my first contact with GCC and free software.

    I never managed to finish any games back then, but I have released one recently, and the source code is available in case anyone is interested:

    https://git.usebox.net/gold-mine-run/about/

    There are also binaries available here:

    https://www.usebox.net/jjm/gold-mine-run/

    Thank you DJ Delorie for DJGPP!

    Kind regards,

    Juan

    At first I had ignore your post because I thought you did not publish source code of this game, but
    finally found it (under MIT license) at: https://git.usebox.net/gold-mine-run/tree/
    (was not finding it under https://www.usebox.net/jjm/open-source/ )
    [and now reading again your message I see you say source code is available]

    I took really just a few seconds at the source code, and came to the 'possibly wrong' conclusion it did not use
    a known VGA game library, and I find it interesting.

    I played it a few minutes and find it interesting. [sorry for lack of vocabulary]
    I believe it could be interesting to package it for FreeDOS: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/games
    http://freedos.org/

    In theory, I manage DJGPP packages for FreeDOS, but did practically did not touch it for about one year...
    not sure they have kept my permissions ;-)

    I am copying to FreeDOS-user mailing list to diffuse the information there.
    I think a few people will be interested.

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