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SDL for DOS and Diablo for DOS (Developers)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 01.02.2026, 16:56

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


I managed to get it to work some time ago on real DOS machine with GeForce4 card.
But I had to use the UniVBE which replaces to VBE BIOS to not to overwrite the modelist during other VESA calls.
(it is also a tricky thing because the GeForce4 is not supported by UniVBE so it was necesarry to use unofficial patcher for it...)

However, the colors were not correct - everything was too dark (maybe some problem with expected DAC width - 6 or 8 bits issue) and I also had a problem with some animation, maybe attact animation - when the animation started it never ended and stayed in infinite loop.

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DOS-u-akbar!

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