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>>578
2)TCL language, make game from scratch https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/contents.htm
This language is very intuitive to learn and I really loves it. The only crappy shit about TCL is that, there are no proper and robust graphic library that you can use from get go. Maybe you could pull a lot of modules to make your games from TK but still, I don't think you could have a native sound library like openal to play background and effect sound. Well at least you could use shell in TCL and just do ffplay to play your sound. Apparantly, long ago someone actually did make a TCL native game engine called "The Aries engine", but the download link has already died. Nobody ever archived it and the source code of the game engine has never been shared ever since the download link died.

3)Allegro engine with Lua binding
I actually tried to go through into this option once back then but I dont like it that much. The syntax sucks but atleast is a lot better than SDL and raylibs, and there's very little documentation about it except the one that is from C language. It's hard to relate the documentation from C to Lua. What lost my motivation to continue gamedev on this engine is that my files got nuke due to my Hardisk went kaput. I lost all of my files and I didn't have backup for it. Anyway, I really think that I kind of regret for picking this option because the learning curve was very hard.

4)Commit sudoku
Well at least I can find my waifu in gensokyo and maybe we could gamedev together.

>>579
cool your jets
if you want to make something real simple use pygame (good for throwing stuff at the wall)
if you want to make something that's well done use godot (good for refining your ideas)
no need to use turbo autism tools to impress anons. better to make a cool looking game.

Could anyone help me how to get this raylib engine binding with tcl language work? I'm literally crying right now. I've followed every single step using this thing called Swig accordingly from documentation here https://www.swig.org/papers/Tcl98/TclChap.html. 1st pic are all my files in one folder. "raylibtcldemo-rcore.i" and "raylibtcldemo-colors.i" are my "interface files" which I need it for function call from raylib c language to tcl. You can see all of these functions and constants variables listed saperately from "raylibtcldemo-rcore.i" and "raylibtcldemo-colors.i" which is base from its respected raylib module. I got this module reference from raylib site here https://www.raylib.com/cheatsheet/cheatsheet.html. So, I've done all the compilation steps but then when I ran tclsh8.6 testinggaem.tcl, it gave me this stupid errors:

>>586 cont

couldn't load file "./raylibtcldemo-rcore.so": ./raylibtcldemo-rcore.so: undefined symbol: EndDrawing
while executing
"load ./raylibtcldemo-rcore.so "
(file "testinggaem.tcl" line 2)

How do I make this Swig work with raylib?

>>559
As for emulators.
>Neko Project
https://moriyashrine.org/files/file/387-pc-98-emulator-~-neko-project-ii/
>Anex86
https://www.zophar.net/pc98/anex86.html

Both good, but I think the Neko Project lacks something I forget.

I grabbed a few a long while ago while looking for good old horror games, i'm sure they're up on archive.org.

Good luck OP, it's a chill aesthetic.

>>563
>I think the Neko Project lacks something I forget.
It requires some tinkering around to get it to work with text hookers, but otherwise I usually see it being reccomended since it's more up to date.

>>559
>>563
As for roms, Neo Kobe probably has anything you might be looking for, just be wary that they are organized by company so you'll need the name of the developer/publisher if you're looking for a specific game.

https://archive.org/details/NeoKobe-NecPc-98012017-11-17

Thanks a bunch guys.

>>563
Speaking of horror titles, are there any you'd recommend?

>>573
NTA but Dead of the Brain got a proper english translation last year:

https://gbatemp.net/download/dead-of-the-brain-cry-of-the-dead-pc-98-english-patch.38296/

Other stuff that comes to mind:
Marine Phillt
Dead of the Brain 2
Dracula Hakushaku
"Forbidden Rhythm" from Marginal Storys

>>465
>I really love the form factor of those old home computers.
Same. It's neat how self-contained they were.
>I wish I could build a PC in that style but then you just end up with a laptop without a screen.
It seems like something like that would be a pain to fix if you had to open it up.

>>466
I wonder if a sleeper PC build would be possible with one of those things. I've heard there are tons of unused Commodore cases you can just buy off the shelf. I guess it would have to be something simple and heat would be an issue.

>>465
I like the keyboard computer form factor. It's actually making a minor comeback with DIY cyberdecks and the Framework motherboard. There's even an Apple patent. I have the C64X with a RasPi 5 inside.

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>>571
Damn bro, this is vidya.

>>139
sounds like boxing

>>140
You know, that's a surprisingly good candidate. The biggest sticking point is that part of the memory was there being multiple screens and that I fled from an enemy back to the start screen, which would be more like Adventure, but it's entirely possible I made some sort of amalgamated memory.

After all, for the longest time I thought that Contra on the NES had a stage at the end where you control the helicopter after escaping the island, just because I saw my brother and his friend beat it once and then swap in Tiger-Heli right after.

>>138
I never spent much time with 7800 games (although I had one of those Flashback consoles at one point with 7800 games on it), but I remember seeing Mario Bros. for sale in a store once as a kid and thinking how weird it was that it existed or an Atari console.
>>139
I don't know enough to identify it. That's got me a bit curious now.
>>141
>Tiger-Heli
I bought that game on accident a while ago when I was in a game store because I confused it with Twin Cobra due to getting a CD of NES ROMs as a kid that had both of those on it. I don't have anything against Tiger-Heli necessarily, but it wasn't what I was after.

Would anyone here possibly be interested in one of those mechanical keyboard doodads that superficially looks like the 2600 as a homage to it? I ask because it is a very low production run.

>>41
I play Atari 2600 often, there's many interesting gems. My favorites with no particular order:

>Adventure
>Berserk
>Defender
>River Raid
>Demon Attack
>Joust
>Pitfall 1 and 2
>Battlezone
>Star Raiders
>Star Wars
>Megamania
>Friday 13th

>>544
Here's some gameplay I did of Lum's Wedding Bell. Seemingly the best way to get points is to jump around a ton and hope some item appears. Also you can jump backwards like the original super mario bros which is neat.

>>514
every time irc in current times is discussed it's full of people declaring it dead and then someone saying it's active. i think the problem is we don't really know where to start looking for servers (not to mention setting up bouncers and stuff feels like unnecessarily complexity compared to every single other chat protocol now)
>>415
>click on zerochan and scroll a bit
>actual cp
yeah imageboards are in a crisis

>>515
Nah, the real point is:
Some IRC servers with a purpose will always be active with that purpose, and will not be dangerous to expose your IP because there's an active moderation: OFTC and Libera
Then you forget everything I said up there and add rizon, where what you said is true. I wouldn't enter rizon without a proper bouncer, mind other even more obscure IRC servers.

>>517
Oh also there's IRCnet and Undernet that are still very active, but I'm not sure about them.

Aside from wapchan the only other imageboards I use are lainchan (for tech only) and [s4s] and occasionally lurk other 4chan boards for wallpapers or animal pics and other specifics. I got my start on 4-ch and still prefer textboards and traditional forums tbh. Shame there aren't many left and the ones that are usually as low traffic as this place.

>>520
I was exploring gopher, some people maintain there's some hidden gems worth exploring.

>>480
>Wish I could buy the IP
I think this about so many different things. Is it just me, or do most game studios and hollywood people seem determined to destroy everything they touch?

>battles separated from the main gameplay map
for me, its autistically elaborate and poorly documented mechanics. If I spend 8 hours every turn configuring everything exactly the way I want, I'm happy.

>>482
>Is it just me, or do most game studios and hollywood people seem determined to destroy everything they touch?

Oh, it's not because I think 1C destroyed it, their attempts to do so sold so poorly that they cancelled any further ideas with the IP. The devs they gave Space Rangers to for the HD update were modders that did a really good job with the mod and a decent job with HD. It's just one of those "this IP is dead" situations, I think I could probably buy it from Fulqrum for $250K USD.

except I don't have $250K USD

>>483
Well in that case, it's just a matter of fundraising. I guess you could win the lottery?

>>482
>for me, its autistically elaborate and poorly documented mechanics. If I spend 8 hours every turn configuring everything exactly the way I want, I'm happy.
I'm more of the opposite. While I don't want to feel like I'm playing Candy Land, I prefer games I can just pick up and play relatively quickly and don't need to do any hardcore micromanagement. That's one of the things I like about Castles II. It's got fun but simple gameplay, and as simplistic as the battles are they're soon over. I've played games like Rome: Total War but couldn't get into them due to how much time is spent away from the main map. As much as I love RTS games, I don't like real-time tactics games. That I think is part of the problem, since something like Heroes of Might and Magic I enjoy.

>>487
>I prefer games I can just pick up and play relatively quickly
For me, the fun part is the learning and the set up. Sometimes I wont even play the game, just arrange the numbers to try and figure out how to do something.

bump

>>120
Never heard of it before, what's it about?

>>122
its the very first text based game, it was released in 1976 by one of the fathers of the internet, Will Crowther, he relesed it for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. In the game, the player explores a cave system rumored to be filled with treasure and gold. The game is composed of dozens of areas, and the player moves between these areas and interacts with objects in them by typing one- or two-word commands which are interpreted by the game's natural language input system. The program acts as a narrator, describing the player's location and the results of the player's attempted actions. It is the first well-known example of interactive fiction, as well as the first well-known adventure game, for which it was also the namesake.

>>123
loot building

>>120
Huh, is it multiplayer? How do you play it.

Ahhh, Colossal Cave, I've played a couple DOS ports before. I think the one that I actually beat (the AGT adaptation maybe?) might've made the mazes easier because they seemed more obnoxious when I tried playing through again later with a different version.

Kind of feel like this is a game that's 50/50 on if someone suggesting you play it wants you to experience a piece of history for yourself or if they just want to watch and laugh while you suffer. Some of the stuff is very obtuse if you don't already know the solutions (I remember telling friends about the dragon fight, and them being like "lmao, that's horrible and amazing, is that for real or are you pulling my leg?")

For all of you who never heard of it, if you've ever seen a game reference "xyzzy" or "maze of twisty little passages" it's a tribute to this game.

Definitely a historic game, but when it comes to ancient text adventures, I have to put in a recommendation for Eamon. For a program that was made on the Apple II in BASIC, it had a lot going for it; an RPG system that was simple but effective, the opportunity to author your own dungeons, etc. Kind of wish text games had developed more in that direction instead of the artfag's paradise they are nowadays, but I guess graphical RPGs increasingly filled that niche.