For those of you who want to do something for rnlf’s minild #71 but are too lazy to figure out the dev environment, I present you:
BIG KDRNIC’S HELL’S DOS DISK IMAGES super deal this week only
which can enable you to quickly get up to writing some Allegro DOS game in C for the minild.
What does it consist of?
One 7zip (.7z) file which upon extraction will yield a VMDK disk image, which you can then use in VirtualBox, which upon booting from, will present you with MS-DOS 6.22 set up with DJGPP-some-dusty-version-from-the-90s with Allegro 3.12. There is also a readme which has a couple more instructions.
Not yet asked questions:
Q: Does this envolve any copyright violations, such as with software from M$, Delore, etc.?
Rather likely, but this is all stuff from the 1990s no one cares about
Q: Does this have any threat of complex russian malware which breaks through the virtual machine?
Don’t know, find out!
Q: Is this the easiest way to develop a game for DOS, or for the minild in general?
I doubt so, there is even a Love2D-sortof thing you could try instead, plus some cross-compilers
So, recapitulating:
If you want to write a game in C for DOS for the #71 minild and don’t mind using a VM, a relic of a compiler and a good old library, here is a disk image with the DOS, the DJGPP and the Allegro working, which works with VirtualBox. Use at your own risk.
