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I am always very impressed when I see these demos and how much can be done with so little. If you are like me you just jumped to Youtube[1] to see it in action.

by clan 6y ago

I am always very impressed when I see these demos and how much can be done with so little. If you are like me you just jumped to Youtube[1] to see it in action. When trying to make my significant other to understand what was happening I wanted to run it myself. I was amazed how simple that was! - Install the assembler[2] - Install dosbox[3] - Get the source[4] and put it into c:\temp\demo\memories.asm - Start nasm and enter: cd c:\temp\demo nasm.exe memories.asm -fbin -o memories.com - Start dosbox and enter: mount d c:\temp\demo d: dir memories - Press [ALT][ENTER] for fullscreen The dosbox config is not optimized but it runs with sound with the default settings! For me this is somehow much more impressive than simply watching the video. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imquk_3oFf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imquk_3oFf4 [2] https://nasm.us/ https://nasm.us/ [3] https://www.dosbox.com/ https://www.dosbox.com/ [4] http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Memories#Original_release_code_.28complete.29 http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Memories#Original_release_cod...

clan 6y ago
pvg has in a comment linked to the optimized dosbox config. With that it runs smooth as butter!
kubanczyk 6y ago
I often need a small script/program as a sample to go under automation/orchestration/ci or some other monstrosity of similar provenance. It will be fun to replace "sleep 5 && echo ok" with an automated version of such writeup :)
jeffhuys 6y ago
For macOS users (with brew): brew install dosbox nasm nasm memories.asm -fbin -o memories.com dosbox mount D ~/Development/memories (or whatever) D: memories So, almost the same! Hit FN+Ctrl+F12 to speed it up (it's time-independent, for smoother animations, hit that combination quite a few times). It didn't output any audio for me, but that's probably fixable.
- kawzeg 6y ago
  Using `dosbox .` skips two steps by mounting the current directory (at least on linux where I tried it)
diggernet 6y ago
Clicked your first link and had the disturbing realization that I was downloading a 48MB video to watch that 256B demo.

by clan 6y ago

clan 6y ago

pvg has in a comment linked to the optimized dosbox config. With that it runs smooth as butter!

kubanczyk 6y ago

I often need a small script/program as a sample to go under automation/orchestration/ci or some other monstrosity of similar provenance. It will be fun to replace "sleep 5 && echo ok" with an automated version of such writeup :)

jeffhuys 6y ago

For macOS users (with brew): brew install dosbox nasm nasm memories.asm -fbin -o memories.com dosbox mount D ~/Development/memories (or whatever) D: memories So, almost the same! Hit FN+Ctrl+F12 to speed it up (it's time-independent, for smoother animations, hit that combination quite a few times). It didn't output any audio for me, but that's probably fixable.

kawzeg 6y ago
Using `dosbox .` skips two steps by mounting the current directory (at least on linux where I tried it)

diggernet 6y ago

Clicked your first link and had the disturbing realization that I was downloading a 48MB video to watch that 256B demo.