DOS Games Discussion

I have finally found some time to make a demonstration video how a game can be completely rewritten into C++ in less than 25 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fAeUx8A-OE

Thank you for suggestion, I posted it there as well. Just for update, here is Xenon2 ported to javascript (just first level):

http://x.valky.eu/xenon2js

I have partially ported another game - this time I have used C++ to javascript converter instead of C++ compiled into WASM. Still has some issues, but playable:

Rick Dangerous 2
https://l.valky.eu/dosrick2

Yes, but there are some requirements though, the game binary cannot be packed or protected. In those old days there were various tricks to protect the games from copying and the hacker groups either produced "vigrin" binary of the game, or they made resident app that cracks the game during...

Yes, exactly like that. The idea behind this project is to have a tool which can be used on any DOS application. But from my research (tested about 10 games), not every game can be ported easily. Currently it supports apps written in raw assembly and it highly depends on how the game was programmed ...

Hello guys, few years ago I made an experiment where I translated the disassembled code of a game (Alley Cat, Star Goose) into C++ or Javascript. It was just a proof of concept and a lot of things needed to be fixed by hand. I sporadically returned to this experiment to improve the translation proce...