dos-game-engine

Dos Game Engine project

WIP, very early stage

What does it do for now ?

Smoothly moves a spaceship over the screen with a background

Notes

It uses Dos-dev Clangd, cmake, djgpp, and Dosbox bundle extension for Visual Studio code (search VS store)

Features

• Game Loop
• Fast low level graphic screen copies and updates (no library)
• Smooth fast background scrolling on 386/486 with a vga
• Loading Bitmaps
• Mouse support
• VGA Mode 13, changing palletes
• Constant FPS in game loop regardless of CPU Mhz speed

TODO

• Level screen graph
• Loading levels, objects
• Saving Load system
• Sound and Music
• Visual effects
• Extended memory support (with an extender)

Why ?

I dont know i just feel like being nostaligic ;) I was kid playing dos games and the tech was magical and unknown to me This is my way of rediscovering what 90s game engineers did