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versteegentoday at 4:19 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm going to find out. I've been meaning for years to port the OHRRPGCE back to DOS, where it came from.

I'm very surprised to see SDL3 re-gain DOS support, since they've aggressively dropped support for almost every port/OS they had in the SDL 1.2 days.


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vunderbatoday at 4:48 AM

Very cool. I'd never heard of OHRRPGCE (Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine) before. I was going to say it feels like an early predecessor to something like RPG Maker but I think RPG Maker originally came out in the early ’90s for the Japanese PC-98 computers.

From the wikipedia entry [1] for OHRRPGCE

> It runs at an 8-bit color depth, by default creates games that run at a 320 × 200 resolution.

It's funny but I bet anyone else in here who also grew up with the QBASIC interpreter as a kid instantly thinks SCREEN 13 when they read something like this.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Hamster_Republic_Role...

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