{"id":310,"date":"2016-09-17T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/?p=310"},"modified":"2021-05-28T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T20:27:00","slug":"ms-dos-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/en\/2016\/09\/17\/ms-dos-games-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MS-DOS Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>During summer &#8217;94 and &#8217;95 I worked for Silmarils and Micro\u00efds, two video game companies in the Paris area. The video game market was at the time essentially developed for the PC under MS-Dos, the publishers preparing to begin the difficult shift of 3D and the arrival of new game consoles. I was able to witness from the inside how these two editors have tackled this rather radical change in jobs for both developers and graphic designers.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ishar III<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ishar III, one of the flagship titles of the company Silmarils was initially distributed in floppy disk format. During the summer of 1994 I had the chance to take charge of the whole cinematic sequence of introduction of the game which was to be published in its augmented version on CD-Rom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"945\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lQ9rZMhhJgQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tools:<\/strong> 3DStudio 4, Deluxe Paint.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3> <strong>Fort Boyard &#8211; The Challenge<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>During the summer of 1995, I was able to join the project of the adaptation of &#8220;Fort Boyard&#8221; to the PC MS-Dos platform. The Micro\u00efds team had just implemented a new 2D framework in C\/ASM with which I worked on the implementation of several mini-games of this adaptation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"945\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gwi-9dSP58Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tools:<\/strong> Watcom C Compiler, Brief editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During summer &#8217;94 and &#8217;95 I worked for Silmarils and Micro\u00efds, two video game companies in the Paris area. The video game market was at the time essentially developed for the PC under MS-Dos, the publishers preparing to begin the difficult shift of 3D and the arrival of new game consoles. I was able to&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/en\/2016\/09\/17\/ms-dos-games-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}