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Another DOS Turbo C(++) goodie - Sconic the Blue Blob (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 26.06.2010, 14:38

> GameDev.net
> game overview.

Not TP, but I'll let it slide.

> MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
> Intel Pentium 200 MMX PC (or 100% compatible CPU)
> 32bit 2D Graphics PCB
> 32Mb RAM (64Mb recommended)
> 1Mb free Hard Drive
>

I would seriously doubt these are the true requirements. Maybe it needed a semi-fast computer, but I would be heavily surprised if it indeed used 32-bit gfx or MMX or even 32 MB RAM (in TC++?? using what, EMS???).

> The earlier download link on the GameDev.NET is now out of date. To
> download Sconic with sources, you need to visit
> Sarah Cartwright's website then go
> to her portfolio page and scroll down to
> Example 5 : Sconic The Blue
> Blob.

Neither download link worked for me yesterday. Of course, I don't really need it. (And I have Sonic Mega Collection for XBox 1 anyways.)

P.S. There was another (shareware) Sonic clone written in QuickBASIC many years ago, but I don't have any links on-hand, and I forget exactly what it was called (Spinball sounds familiar, but that's also the name of a different Sonic pinball game, so I dunno).

P.P.S. There was a Sonic-inspired Atari Lynx game called Zaku that came out like last year (!). Eventually they changed all the graphics to not be copyrighted (thankfully). But my (second-hand) Lynx II broke several years ago (made in 1991, broke in 2006, gee I wonder why ... OLD!), so it's moot to me unless I get another. (I did [insanely?] bid on another on eBay a month or so ago but lost, heh.)

EDIT: I think Spinball is it. But there's also a (better?) one I've never tried here (Sonic X-treme).

Complete thread:

• Paint for MS Dos - rr, 10.06.2010, 21:49 (Announce)
  • Paint for MS Dos -- Graph256 - Rugxulo, 17.06.2010, 12:13
    • more Turbo Pascal goodies - Rugxulo, 19.06.2010, 22:04
      • more Turbo Pascal goodies - rr, 20.06.2010, 13:33
        • more Turbo Pascal goodies - Rugxulo, 22.06.2010, 08:34
          • more Turbo Pascal goodies - rr, 22.06.2010, 16:15
            • more Turbo Pascal goodies - rr, 22.06.2010, 22:35
            • more Turbo Pascal goodies - Rugxulo, 23.06.2010, 08:22
              • more Turbo Pascal goodies - rr, 23.06.2010, 21:55
                • more Turbo Pascal goodies - Rugxulo, 26.06.2010, 14:28
    • Another DOS Turbo C(++) goodie - Sconic the Blue Blob - Arjay, 25.06.2010, 21:17
      • Another DOS Turbo C(++) goodie - Sconic the Blue Blob - Rugxulo, 26.06.2010, 14:38
        • Another DOS Turbo C(++) goodie - Sconic the Blue Blob - Arjay, 27.06.2010, 01:42
  • It doesn't work - DOS386, 27.06.2010, 15:02