I ran into a few issues with Windows 2.x and later versions of MS-DOS, so I figured I should simply install an older version of MS-DOS. Version 3.31 seemed appropriate, because it supports harddisks larger than 32MB.

Easier said than done, because - as a surprise to me - this version of DOS apparently didn't even have a setup program. You have to do everything yourself: FDISK, FORMAT, SYS,... you even have to copy COMMAND.COM from A: to C: by hand. Simpler times!

Another thing I wanted to share out of the stuff on my Switch:

I've been using emulators since forever, but this is still, by far, the best emulation collection release I have ever seen. The whole interface is amazing. You're comfortably in your room as quiet ambient sounds come in from outside (in day you hear cars quietly passing by and birds) with game posters on the walls and such and a shelf full of Genesis/Megadrive games that it actually puts IN a console shown on screen, then it plays on a TV on screen. (It can be set to load games directly in fullscreen which I recommend, but it was neater to show it merely zooming in on the virtual TV for the clip.)

Wow! Windows 386 is so much more usable now in 1024x768 SVGA resolution with 256 colors. Yes, I finally found a working graphics driver! And also "yes", I have nothing better to do at 3am!

Even though it looks kinda horrible, as soon as you get used to it, Windows 2.1 seems surprisingly usable. It's definitely better than just MS-DOS. I just wish I could get it to work with a higher screen resolution.

I have a question for indie game developers, since I have limited experience...how would y'all go about having your games be playable on another device? Not like an android phone, but for...a totally random example (but not reall)...a Nintendo DS?

Asking for myself. I want to continue homebrewing ^_^

Here's an animation of how the original Prince of Persia for the IBM PC draws a level.

You can easily see how the tileset works.

It's interesting what you can spot just poking around in memory, when looking at it as pixels.

This is clearly the map for Wolfenstein 3D's Level 1.

Watching Wolfenstein 3D render in slow-motion.

Wolf3D renders to three pages in video memory, flipping between them. This is one of the keys to its smooth animation.

This video appears low resolution because we are only seeing one of four graphics planes - I stretched out the 80 pixel wide source image to fit into 320 columns.

Back in the day, "PC Paintbrush for Windows" used to be my favourite image editor. I kept using it well into the modern Windows 9x era. Only recently, I learned of its history as an MS-DOS application. There are plenty of interesting similarities!

Ein Image der "4 PC-Super-Spiele" Diskette ist jetzt auch im Internet-Archive verfügbar. Im Jahre 1995 war das vermutlich die Krönung der PC-Spiele-Kunst! Ähhh... Okay, vermutlich nicht.

Trotzdem viel Spaß!

https://archive.org/details/4_pc-super-spiele

I gave Windows 3.11 a dark mode. It's practically a modern OS now.

After watching some very interesting videos about the "History of Windows" last night, I got a little curious and installed a copy of Windows 3.00a onto one of my virtual machines. Back in 1993, my first PC already came preinstalled with a modern Windows 3.1, so this is something new to me.

On the one hand, the system does look familiar, but on the other hand... everything looks a bit "off". Mostly the colours. But, so far, everything seems to be working just fine. At this time, Windows still lacked any kind of multimedia software, so there's no Sound Recorder or Media Player yet. But, as a nice bonus, they still included the "MS-DOS Executive", so you can make it look and feel very close to Windows 2.x.

Unfortunately, unlike WIndows 3.1 or 3.11, there has never been a Y2K patch for Windows 3.0, so its usefulness, even within an emulator, is a bit limited.

#Nintendo has sent a DMCA take-down claim on all #Ryujinx emulator forks on this list.

No surprise, and lends credence to the idea that Nintendo is pushing #Switch #emulation as far back as it can, due to the Switch2 sharing architecture with the original - making emulation of the upcoming generation's games if not possible straight away...far easier to do.

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/02/2025-02-26-nintendo.md

Still, Ryubing by Greemdev is still untouched (and seems it won't ever be taken down!)