Do You remember old MS-DOS games? You can write Your own game in modern language - Java! This is Java framework for development desktop games in CGA / VGA - style graphic with 320x200 resolution.
Framework work via Swing and support:
- Transparent upscale to actual desktop resolution.
- PCX file decoding (1 bitplane, 8 bit per pixel - used in GIMP)
- Sprites
- Bitmap 8x8 fonts
- Both CGA palette
- Palette size is up to 256 colors - VGA 320x200x256 is possible.
- Good perfomance - sample game work at low-end ARM without delay (like Pocket C.H.I.P. and Raspberry PI 1)
I had implement one example - Tetris game in CGA-style. Please, check https://github.com/vaclav2016/JCGA-Tetris
You need Maven to build:
$ mvn install
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