A small test demo running in LoveDOS

In preparation for MiniLD52 I wrote a small framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua; the framework provides a loose subset of the Love2D API. Currently it supports only a single image format and runs in mode 13h: 320×200, 8bit. It doesn’t yet provide sound, scaling/rotation or mouse support.

If you want to give it a go, check out the “Getting started” section on the project’s github. If you encounter any issues then leave me a comment; given how new the project is, it may have some bugs, but hopefully there isn’t anything too major.

Though the framework has been tested on DOS, as well as on an emulation of older hardware, I haven’t had a chance to see how it runs on real older hardware. If you happen to have an early Pentium 1 and wouldn’t mind trying out some little test programs on the framework and reporting back the kind of FPS you get, let me know!