u/deulamco

After 250 lines, it can fill terminal window with specific color/character at exact resolution 🤷‍♂️

** made my own event system to only redraw when needed, much preferable to dirty-draw what change.

I just want to compare what it take to fill/draw buffer on TUI correctly, compare to other methods like X11/Wayland/GLX or pure fb0.

And it successfully draw on booting x86-64 machine with a tinyconfig-like linux kernel 6.9 (~861KB) after Limine bootloader.

somehow I still feel like they are … too new 😂 But my machine can’t run win98 but only XP.

A lot of games require patches to work properly, while some refuse to work or crash on slightly wrong action ( like Esc during cutscenes ).

I tried compatible mode + 256 colors / windowed mode but not every work.

Some weird cases like :

Ceasar 3 + Pharaoh worked flawlessly but not Zeus 🤷‍♂️

The Longest Journey need to turn off 3D Acceleration & never press Esc during cutscenes or it crash..

Freelancer only work after XP/2000 patched.

System Shock 2 patched the same thing but black screen after intro..

HaloCE need proper patch too.

Eventually, it’s like filtering through a long list of games to figure out which work well on XP SP3.

No linking, no API mess like on Linux,
Simply compile directly to tiny .EXE file.

The same thing on Linux/X11 would cost 15KB ( with dynamic linker ) instead 2560 bytes.

It's funny how much troubles I have been through just to find this only way to make that work properly without any actual Windows machines around.

As I only use macOS + Arch/Linux, and they have almost none software to do this correctly.