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hassilon Page Icon Posted 2023-08-05 2:10 PM
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The 16-bit version of frotz works well, but it needs a lot of RAM; can't run from the dos shell with GUI resident in memory.
You can specify length and height in lines when you start frotz, so you can use the zoomed modes: 40x16 is much more readable than 80x25.

Just put something like this in a batch file:

rem usage: frotzoom.bat gamename

frotz -h 16 -w 40 %1

I think there is a real mode DOS magnetic scrolls interpreter someplace. Anybody got it? All I could find in SUPER was a Scott Adams interpreter.
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Jake Page Icon Posted 2023-08-05 3:18 PM
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Michel, who runs SUPER, pokes his head in here now and then, and he would know better than most.

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hassilon Page Icon Posted 2023-08-10 4:27 PM
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I found it in the IF Archive interepreters section:

https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/interpreters/m...

It has similar command-line options to frotz, so you can set length and width correctly for zoomed modes.

Be careful running it: if you do not specify the video mode , it will default to VGA which will lock up the palmtop requiring a reset.

I run it in a batch file like this:

magnetic -d 1 -w 60 -h 18 %1

Edited by hassilon 2023-08-10 4:32 PM
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michelbel Page Icon Posted 2023-08-10 5:24 PM
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Just a note: you can run large real mode dos programs from the system manager using the swapper maxdos

Get it on SUPER using this link : maxdos

Read maxdos.doc first , if you have more memory and one of the 200lx ems memory mappers installed, it can swap to ems, slightly faster than to disk.
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Jake Page Icon Posted 2023-08-10 6:01 PM
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From Win3.0 to NewDeal Office Suite, you must run MaxDOS, it's the only way. What a program.

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hassilon Page Icon Posted 2023-08-30 2:57 PM
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Sea Hunt runs well.

https://www.dosgames.com/game/sea-hunt/


Mine Field--similar to minesweeper-- is easy to see and has obvious controls:

https://minesweepergame.com/download/game.php?id=33

Download v 1.04; the 1.05 upgrade to color probably sucks in greyscale.


Is there a CGA DOS minesweeper game more like the windows version?

Bombsquad (also at minesweepergame.com) works and isn't terrible, I guess.
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hassilon - 2023-08-30 6:57 AM


Where's Lloyd Bridges?
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hassilon Page Icon Posted 2023-09-19 4:28 PM
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Actually, Sea Hunt was a little before my time...but not so much before that I fail to get the references to it in Airplane!
My avatar is Ted Stiker flying "on instruments."

In other news, I found an ancient version of Angband (a roguelike with more bells and whistles than vanilla rogue) that can run (with maxdos) on the 200LX:
FAngband.

https://archive.org/details/fangex10

Most post-nethack roguelikes are memory hogs or require 286+ CPU.
Unlike in Nethack/Rogue, to save and quit this game, press CTRL- X.
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