DOS ain't dead

DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 (Announce)

posted by FFK , 28.02.2026, 22:47

> Welcome back!
>

Thank you

> Your last post here was thirteen years ago.
> What happened meanwhile?

Well a lot , First I was disappointed (13 years ago) that there is no viable SOUND solution. As my goal was always bare metal DOS, no matter how beautiful/fast is your game/soft if there is no sound!
Then I lost my email linked to several things including dugl website, this forum.. I didn't tried to recover just kept following.
meanwhile I continued some developments, then got the Idea to port it to SDL Lib. Then Dust Ultimate Game Library is born DUST - DUGL hoping that SDL DOS/DJGPP port will happen.
..
Then the project SBEMU started, followed by VSBHDA (SOUND), and CSMWRAP (bare metal), I also discovered the MINGW/DJGPP cross compiler. so as I felt that OLD DUGL was a big waste and it was a bad idea to put it on hold (maybe for ever) and that the new DUGL was based on SSE4.1 so wiping out 10 years of computers .. so I given a try with cross MINGW/DJGPP and CodeBlocks, and it was wonderful, I can work 4 times faster than with RHIDE .. So I decided to bring back the OLD DUGL, and port as much as possible new features from NEW DUGL ..


> Why are you back now?

I among the poeple that sill beleave that DOS has all potential to go back main stream, not just retro gaming/dev inside a VM. all what we need now is a successfull VSHDA/CSMWRAP, a missing good PTHREAD lib with capability to use all CPU Cores (new DUGL is up to 300% faster thanks to rendering with 4 cores), maybe also a better HDD/SATA/SSD drivers that bring full speed ..
Well that's not going to be easy, but I'm here to contribute as much as I can, and without a doubt this is a long term hobby

Complete thread:

• DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha2 - FFK, 28.02.2026, 04:59 (Announce)
  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - rr, 28.02.2026, 12:57
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 28.02.2026, 22:47
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 01.03.2026, 05:29
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 01.03.2026, 10:50
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - DOS SMP - mceric, 01.03.2026, 12:27
            • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - DOS SMP - FFK, 01.03.2026, 21:50
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 01.03.2026, 15:52
            • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 01.03.2026, 17:58
              • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 02.03.2026, 18:20
                • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 02.03.2026, 23:21
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 03.03.2026, 02:25
  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 28.02.2026, 14:48
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 28.02.2026, 23:20
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 01.03.2026, 01:43
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 02.03.2026, 02:15
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 02.03.2026, 05:14
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 02.03.2026, 09:08
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 02.03.2026, 18:25
            • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 02.03.2026, 23:30
              • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 03.03.2026, 02:15
                • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 03.03.2026, 02:33
                • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 04.03.2026, 12:26
              • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 03.03.2026, 20:59
                • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 03.03.2026, 22:13
                  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Laaca, 05.03.2026, 07:00
                    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 05.03.2026, 17:30
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 02.03.2026, 10:58
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 02.03.2026, 16:59
  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha3 - FFK, 26.03.2026, 02:47
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha3 - Zyzzle, 05.04.2026, 20:37
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha3 - FFK, 06.04.2026, 17:28
  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha4 - FFK, 13.04.2026, 03:30