LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years (Part 1) An exercise in reconstructing (and maybe modernizing) history. AlphaPixel often gets called upon to work on legacy codebases, sometimes VERY legacy. We have contact with code from the 80s and 90s on a regular basis, in a variety of dialects and languages, and
The definitive word on how to force selection of a discrete GPU in C/C++ code.
In part 5 of our raytracing port, we clean up the code a bit and then add camera/viewport animation and a checkerboard ground texture.
In part 4 of our raytracer porting blog, we fix the SDL event pump, add a PNG saver with libspng, remove the preset resolution limits and add a unit test using CTest.
The article explores adding a modern SDL-based UI to a legacy Amiga raytracer. It covers integrating SDL with CMake, updating UI code from Amiga OS, and resolving rendering performance issues. By using SDL’s cross-platform libraries, the article demonstrates how to modernize graphical functionality while preserving the original program logic.
This article details the process of compiling and running legacy Amiga-based raytracer code in Visual Studio Code. It covers updating old C code, handling missing libraries, and adapting the original environment using modern tools like CMake. The step-by-step guide ensures the code works on current systems with minimal changes.
The article explores how AlphaPixel tackles the challenges of forward porting legacy media and code, including recovering data from 1980s and 1990s hardware. Through a real-life example involving an Amiga-based raytracer project, it highlights the complexities of resurrecting old code, using modern tools to extract and convert outdated formats for modern use.
