This is a hobby project that I started some years ago and never finished.
It's a clone of the Bomberman game meant to run on:
- DOS (Tested on MS-DOS 3.3)
- i8086 CPU (or i8088)
- 128k RAM
- CGA graphics
- PC Speaker sound
- Keyboard input
In the tools/ directory, run the extract_tiles.py script first, in order to obtain 1 PNG image for each frame.
After that, run the make_cga.py script, in order to convert the PNG images to sprite-sheets compatible with CGA.
The tools require Python 3 and Pillow, and have been tested on Linux.
The music is generated with MONOTONE.
- From MONOTONE, load the song, and press CTRL-W to dump the song to file.
- Copy the dumped file by overwriting the
out/game.sndfile.
The compiler used to compile this game is the Open Watcom C/C++ compiler for DOS,
and you can easily obtain it from FreeDOS (Look for the WATCOMC.ZIP file).
The Open Watcom C/C++ compiler works on DOSBox, and it's the easiest way to compile the game.
From DOSBox run the commands:
C:\DEVEL\WATCOMC\OWSETENV.BAT
wmake /a
Copy the out directory to the target DOS machine, and run with GAME.EXE.
Of course, it runs on DOSBox as well.
- To move the player press the ARROW KEYS
- To place a bomb press SPACE
- To quit the game press ESC or Q
How to program the CGA graphics: https://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/cga.html https://www.chibialiens.com/8086/platform.php#LessonP1
PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia: http://qzx.com/pc-gpe/
How to program the Keyboard: http://qzx.com/pc-gpe/keyboard.txt
How to program the PC Speaker: http://qzx.com/pc-gpe/speaker.txt
How to program the Timer: http://qzx.com/pc-gpe/pit.txt
Useful information about hardware ports and interrupts: https://www.stanislavs.org/helppc/
Open Watcom documentation: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-1.9/wiki/Open-Watcom-1.9-Documentation
Open Watcom C/C++ for DOS: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/watcomc.html
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