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Re:Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the ... by gritzko on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:22AM (#50003622)
Ah, yes, sorry. At this point, XP and DOS are almost synonymous for me.

The entire point of the port was to add headless play for AI training. But porting the old interface and playing it in the browser was lots of fun. Can not upload that to GitHub, obviously.

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Re:Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the ... by chriswarbo on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:33AM (#50003707)
> At this point, XP and DOS are almost synonymous for me.

IIRC Windows 9x & ME were based on (MS)DOS; but 2k and XP were based on NT, which was quite different.

(Note sure what those differences actually are, since I only started programming once I'd switched to Linux...)

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Re:Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the ... by bananaboy on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:54AM (#50003843)
That's correct. Personally as an MS-DOS retro enthusiast and programmer I don't know how anyone could call XP and DOS synonymous!
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Re:Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the ... by gritzko on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:27AM (#50004525)
Exactly. I switched to Linux in the 90s.
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