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SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS (Developers)

posted by tkchia , 01.02.2026, 11:28

Hello Laaca,

> 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 not looked into sources yet but I suspect a bug in the VESA VBE code
> causing the error in the video mode initialization on my primary DOS
> computer.

If a crash comes with a register dump (or some other sort of crash report), perhaps you can make use of that?

Thank you!

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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