DOS 2D Game Engine

[NicolasF]

Hi,
I'm looking for a simple 2D game engine for DOS. I found this one: https://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/your-own-two-dimensional-gaming-engine/184410057
But its not possible to register to download the files. Does anyone know some similar project I could use? Thanks!

 

[Trixter]

What language and assembler/compiler will you be writing your game in?

 

[NicolasF]

I'm thinking C and assembler. Probably Borland C and TASM. Its too bad I cant download that code because I would like to see how the "compile bitmaps" work and the sprite animation.

 

[Trixter]

The source is here: https://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/yo...ur-own-two-dimensional-gaming-engine/30300443
It's very basic though, all it does is generate MOV statements for every pixel, no attempt at optimization.

If you can limit yourself to 386+ systems, the allegro library does everything you need: https://liballeg.org/old.html

 

[NicolasF]

Hi Trixter, the idea is to make it in real mode only. You cant download the code from that website because you can't register in that website

 

[Trixter]

Okay, real mode makes things harder; what kind of game are you thinking of making?

https://github.com/mills32/Little-Game-Engine-for-VGA with discussion at http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?66986-Little-Game-Engine-for-MS-DOS might help you.

If you can't get that working, then look for xlib 6.0 for graphics and browse https://www.hornet.org/code/ for sound code.