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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 1d

Start Elvira: The Arcade Game with the command line argument LAZYMENT for unlimited lives.

#DOSGaming

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 5d

Brats has an all-star cast.

bsky.app/profile/laur...

Laurel and Hardy @laurelandhardy.bsky.social · 6d

Early to Bed, the first of only two #laurelandhardy films to feature only Stan and Ollie (the second being Brats) was released on this day in 1928.

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 8d

Remember Googlewhack? There's a new game that you can play on Google:

Combine the search terms "trump" and "dementia" with other search terms in such a way that an AI response is generated.
For example: "home alone release date trump dementia"

Google blocks AI searches for "trump" in combination with "dementia". But the blocking can be circumvented by adding extra search terms like "home alone release date".

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 8d

Doom for Sinclair QL running on Spectrum Next QL core

youtu.be/LyAntMtfyDs

Doom for Sinclair QL running on Spectrum Next QL core

YouTube video by Federico Achaerandio

youtu.be

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 11d

Spoiler alert!

Doom8088 made the top 100. It's at number 37.

Slope's Game Room AKA DJ Slope @slopesgameroom.bsky.social · 20d

Nobody has ever done a TOP 100 Weird thing that can run doom... until now / Buckle up, this is a seriously strange video youtu.be/srMPmfavTxE

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 14d

Doom8088: Sinclair QL Edition

Doom is really slow on a computer with a Motorola 68008 CPU @ 7.5 MHz.

Slow down the video for a more realistic speed.

youtu.be/128qVyAWIsg

Doom8088: Sinclair QL Edition

YouTube video by DookNookim

youtu.be

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 14d

The 8 colors of the Sinclair QL.

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 15d

On a related note: He started the presentation with the remark that in this part of the world the term "film flop" is much more known than "box-office bomb".

Well, Naked Gun 33 1/3 taught me the meaning of the word "bomb". 😄

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 15d

I went to a talk yesterday about box-office bombs. The presenter claimed cinema would be very different now if the first feature film wasn't a financial success.

The first feature film according to him? 👇

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · May 23

BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) is sometimes called the 1st Feature Film (full stop), 1st US Feature & 1st American Epic.

The REAL earliest known features:

1st: CORBETT-FITZSIMMONS FIGHT (1897)
1st Narrative: KELLY GANG (1906)
1st US: OLIVER TWIST (1912)
1st US Epic: FROM THE MANGER TO THE CROSS (1912)

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 17d

Nero! 🤓

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 30

Doom in FreeBee

youtu.be/4Spd7z-IE_k

Doom8088: AT&T UNIX PC Edition

YouTube video by DookNookim

youtu.be

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 30

Doom8088: AT&T UNIX PC Edition in FreeBee, an AT&T UNIX PC emulator.

youtu.be/4Spd7z-IE_k

Doom8088: AT&T UNIX PC Edition

YouTube video by DookNookim

youtu.be

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 30

Doom8088: AT&T UNIX PC Edition.
Doom for the AT&T UNIX PC, a computer with a Motorola 68010 CPU @ 10 MHz, between 512 KB and 4 MB of RAM and a monochrome display of 720x348 pixels.

github.com/FrenkelS/Doo...

Releases · FrenkelS/Doom8088ST

Doom for the Atari ST and AT&T UNIX PC. Contribute to FrenkelS/Doom8088ST development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 29

But how do I get files out of the emulator? Mounting the image is impossible in WSL.
And there's no s4 tool to extract a file.

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 28

2 years ago the first version of Doom8088 was released.

A day later deatsaw tried it on a real 286.

youtu.be/gqHcUlHsV_g

Doom mapping on a 286! (part 27) - the final DEU stream

YouTube video by DEAT

youtu.be

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 28

2 years ago the first version of Doom8088 was released.

Today, I release a version that fixes a memory corruption bug that was introduced 10 months ago.
github.com/FrenkelS/Doo...

Releases · FrenkelS/Doom8088

Doom for 16-bit DOS computers. Contribute to FrenkelS/Doom8088 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 23

To remember the command

tar xvf doom.tar

there's the memory aid
eXtract Vucking Files

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 23

To get the files on the emulated computer, I'm using a 360 KB floppy image.

Luckily there's tar and gzip on the AT&T UNIX PC to handle bigger files.

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 23

I'm having problems with the linker of the cross compiler. To circumvent that, I'm generating object files in Ubuntu with GCC 3.3.6 and linking with GCC 2.5.8 in the FreeBee emulator.

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 23

I'm working on a Doom port for the AT&T UNIX PC. It's a monochrome computer, but somehow recording footage with Windows key + G adds an extra color.

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Al's Geek Lab @alsgeeklab.bsky.social · Aug 23

Full fat doom, on an IBM XT with help from Intel, @frenkel.bsky.social and @viti95.bsky.social
youtu.be/4Z2os4TVNTU

Full Fat DooM, on an XT?!

YouTube video by Al's Retro Geek Lab

youtu.be

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 20

When I hear WinTex, I think of doomwiki.org/wiki/WinTex

WinTex

WinTex is a GUI-based WAD editing tool for Windows 3.1x created by Olivier Montanuy. In its initial versions it was a graphical shell for DeuTex. Later versions added additional functionality, includi...

doomwiki.org

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 19

Awesome! Using a couple of lines of code from Commander Keen / Wolfenstein 3D made it work.

As for Sound Blaster sound, I think the XT DMA controller doesn't know about the extended memory where Doom stores the sound data. So, try the Sound Blaster Direct Mode instead, which doesn't use DMA.

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Al's Geek Lab @alsgeeklab.bsky.social · Aug 19

It FREAKING WORKS!!! Amazing!!!
I haven't been able to get it to use SB SFX but

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