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Rebuilding Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance
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May 29, 2024
Day 1 The first day involved mostly figuring out which dependencies were needed where and how to get them installed. You can read about that here.
We’re going to take advantage of the developer’s (theoretical) wisdom in building their own project and use their make command, MAKE.BAT dos:
Building RELEASE NOVA.EXE for DOS makefile(795): Error(F46): Illegal character value 1aH in file Error(E02): Make execution terminated 'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
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May 28, 2024
What? For the last few years, I’ve been hosting and updating instructions for installing a game called Birthright: The Gorgon’s Alliance. Birthright came out in 1997 and was published by Sierra On-Line, which dominated the PC game market at the time. The game was a PC adaptation of the fantasy world Birthright. Birthright was a campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons, meaning it provided a world, lore, and some extra rules and creatures for players to roleplay in.
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February 20, 2020
One of the things I find most interesting about desktop support is trying to support legacy hardware and software. Not only does it provide an opportunity to learn more about the history of computing, but it also tends to provide some interesting compatibility challenges.
The place where I run into this most often and that I think gets the most words written about it on the Internet is in getting old games running on modern hardware and operating systems.