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Gamemaker is open source (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 31.07.2021, 02:09

> Well, it is not truly new, however: The goold old DOS games creation system
> is free and open sourced dince 2014.
> Here
> you can see a rich wiki, the Gamemaker itself and also a huge amount of
> games created with it.
Did you get any Gamemaker games working on pure DOS in any "modern" systems (post-2006)? These Gamemaker games all seem to rely on a buggy, wonky VGA internal driver cooked into their .EXE files. Did anyone here manage to get these games to work in pure DOS? Hoping to narrow the problem down, please try in pure DOS and report your findings

I tried everything from old Atom netbooks to modern powerful 10th gen intel laptops, and every game just displays a black screen, no way to get out, no picture. In pure MS-DOS v. 7.1. And configuration options are not accessible. There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with the VGA drivers, as I think these Gamemaker games just use a broken (?) mode 0x13 320x200x256. In DOSBOX-x for under HX, I can get such games to display a configuration menu (in VGA 320x200, NOT textmode 9x16 font), and I can change the configuration options (no sound, standard VGA), and save the new config file. But, again, when executed in pure DOS, the games won't start. Even using "simulated" mode in DOSBOX doesn't work in anything with Intel onboard graphics.

Such a pity. If the source code is available, perhaps it can be recompiled with a more "modern" / compatible VGA internal driver, but I wouldn't know which one or how to embed it into the (newly) recompiled engine files.

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