On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 20:56 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
Hey, that CGA video support patch today from Peter Dons Tychsen, http://winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-October/063417.html reminded me there's an old downloadable DOS game my wife likes to dig out every now and then. I tried it today and discovered that what's stopping it is support for a VGA feature, so I filed a bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15688 There are three other similar bugs, some with patches: http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?product=Wine&component=dos&long_d... Getting old DOS games working might be pretty easy at this point if, like this game, they just need a little VGA love. Let's encourage newcomers to contribute in this area... it'd be fun to see those classic games running in wine.
I added an entry to http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode for this, in case nobody does it before summer.
- Dan
Hey D.
Yes. This is exactly what i was thinking. And there is lots of material to start on, and the old DOS environment is quite well documented via various projects and documents scattered over the net.
My biggest problem right now is to get keyboard input working, as there is an annoying bug (or something) in the exception system (see my mail called "winedos interrupts getting lost"). That needs to get fixed for any games to work. I think its some kind of problem with ntdll.
I would love to see support for games like "paratrooper" and "police quest".
Thanks,
/pedro