Compiling Keen Dreams is a pain in the ass

A bunch of fans bought the rights to Keen Dreams and open sourced it.

 

I started with the Keen Dreams source code.

 

It won't compile on DOSBox but it will compile in a VirtualBox machine running MS-DOS v6.22.

 

It won't play on a VirtualBox machine running MS-DOS v6.22 but it will play on DOSBox.

 

✓ Create a VirtualBox

✓ Install MS-DOS v6.22

✓ Install Borland C++ v3.1

✓ Install Borland Turbo Assembler v4.1

✓ Compile graphics packs

✓ Compile Keen Dreams

✓ Create a virtual floppy disk

✓ Copy KDREAMS.EXE to the virtual floppy disk

✓ Run DOSBox

✓ Extract resources from Keen Dreams v1.9.3 (non-shareware version) to a directory in DOSBox

✓ Copy KDREAMS.EXE to the directory in DOSBox

✓ Play (compiled) Keen Dreams

Done