This is a small open source C game designed for MS-DOS. It's made in mid-90s PC gaming style, and runs at full speed on a 486 or higher (or in DOSBox).
This project is still in the very early stages and doesn't work yet! Since this game is designed to run on MS-DOS, you'll need DJGPP to compile it. Instructions are below.
The latest builds page is updated as soon
as the master branch is changed. You can also follow
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want to know about new builds as soon as they're available.
To compile the game, you'll need to have DJGPP set up to be able to compile for MS-DOS. You can either get a pre-built release or build the whole thing from source—follow the instructions on andrewwutw/build-djgpp to get a working compiler. If you follow the instructions in the link, your compiler should also work out of the box for building the Allegro library.
Set an environment variable $DJGPP_CC to the path of your DJGPP GCC binary.
For example, you could add the following to your ~/.bashrc file:
export DJGPP_CC=/usr/local/djgpp/bin/i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-gcc
Vendor code is included as Git submodules. Clone this repo with
git clone --recursive to make sure you get them.
Only the Allegro library needs to be compiled separately. It's a fork from the 4.2.2 version with some tweaks to make it compile on modern cross-compilers. See the allegro-4.2.2-xc page for instructions.
All other vendor code is automatically compiled when you run make.
The dat utility from Allegro 4 is required to process graphical assets.
We can't use the one from allegro-4.2.2-xc because that one is designed
to compile for MS-DOS only—the dat utility must be usable by your system
natively.
Windows users can likely use a binary
from the Allegro website. For Mac OS X, I've made a build that includes
the dat utility, available on this repository.
Just clone it and put its tools directory in your path, that should be
sufficient. Linux users can probably get the utility by installing Allegro
using their package manager, e.g. liballegro4-dev
for Debian.
After Allegro has been compiled, it should be as simple as running make.
This creates a distribution in the dist/ directory. You can run this
using DOSBox for testing. To enable debugging
features, run make DEBUG=1.
For easy distribution, run make dist to create a zip file containing
the latest build. It will be saved to the dist/ directory.
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