Booter games bug
Posted: Sun 14 Jan, 2018 12:12 am
Hello.
I found some bugs in booter games from 1984-85 and it seemed important to me report them. (i downloaded from retrograde station but the site is down since 2014)
both games support IBM PCjr 16 color graphics and 3 voice sound, and only
CGA 4 color and IBM speaker in the other machines.
I recently tested several 8088 machines in PCEM including PCjr. I found a bug in Bolderdash (The game is a booter disk it does not boot DOS).
The games, stars and works, but after finishing level 1 the game enters in a loop when trying to count the time back to 0; in fact, it keeps counting from 999 to 700 and again in 999. So I never arrive in 000 and gets stuck there.
The game works without any issue in dosbox.
Also Jumpman (its a booter too) works but is too fast in PCEM, even with an 8088 running at 4.77 mhz. It woks in dosbox too.
Thanks!
I found some bugs in booter games from 1984-85 and it seemed important to me report them. (i downloaded from retrograde station but the site is down since 2014)
both games support IBM PCjr 16 color graphics and 3 voice sound, and only
CGA 4 color and IBM speaker in the other machines.
I recently tested several 8088 machines in PCEM including PCjr. I found a bug in Bolderdash (The game is a booter disk it does not boot DOS).
The games, stars and works, but after finishing level 1 the game enters in a loop when trying to count the time back to 0; in fact, it keeps counting from 999 to 700 and again in 999. So I never arrive in 000 and gets stuck there.
The game works without any issue in dosbox.
Also Jumpman (its a booter too) works but is too fast in PCEM, even with an 8088 running at 4.77 mhz. It woks in dosbox too.
Thanks!