DOS ain't dead

SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS (Developers)

posted by Zyzzle, 01.02.2026, 09:38

> On Czech forum High-Voltage.cz was few
> days ago mentioned the starting support for DOS in Diablo source port
> DevilutionX.
> Webmaster says that it works for him in DosBox without problems.
> I tried it on two physical DOS machines. On the first one it does not work
> at all (error during video mode initialization) and on the second machine
> plays the intro but after that it crashes with exception fault and with the
> register dump.
> I have also third DOS machine and I plan to test it there too.
I have looked and looked at Github and the high-voltage.cz site, but can find no DOS binary of DevilutionX. All I see is source, and it looks difficult to compile a working binary.

Is there a pre-compiled binary available anywhere? I'd like to try this out in bare metal DOS.

Complete thread:

• SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - Laaca, 05.09.2025, 05:34 (Developers)
  • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - Zyzzle, 01.02.2026, 09:38
    • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - Laaca, 01.02.2026, 16:50
      • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - Zyzzle, 02.02.2026, 14:27
        • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - Laaca, 02.02.2026, 23:29
          • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - Zyzzle, 03.02.2026, 00:21
  • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - tkchia, 01.02.2026, 11:28
    • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - Laaca, 01.02.2026, 16:56
      • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - tkchia, 01.02.2026, 20:55
      • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - Zyzzle, 04.02.2026, 05:07
        • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - Zyzzle, 05.02.2026, 12:19
  • SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS - Rugxulo, 01.02.2026, 21:34