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Archive for April, 2015

Keyboard or Joystick: You Decide!

April 19, 2015

For those who don’t like playing DOS games using their keyboard, there is a nifty little software package called “JoyEmu“. It allows you to map keyboard keys to joystick input (2 or 4 button joysticks), along with the axial directions. It has a great configuration utility to help you set this up, and allows you to save keyboard mappings and joystick assignments as files. These files can be loaded manually alongside a batch file wrapper, if you desire,  so that playing your favourite games is quick and easy. It also allows for mappings to your mouse and a truck load of documentation; you really couldn’t ask for a better utility of this type!

Alone in the Dark for DOS

I have been playing that game recently and researching different aspects of its history; I ran across a thread on the ScummVM message board that said you can enter the text “benjaminyaelfred” at the copy protection screen and it will let you play the game, if you don’t have the code book that came with the game. The last part of the text “yaelfred” is from one of the original artists of the game, Yaël Barroz, and the original engine programmer, Frédérick Raynal.