Idea - menu/launcher

[SpitFire-666]

I've been dabbling in qbasic recently and had a crack at a "launcher" for FastDoom!

Could be improved by allowing user to set command-line options as well!

[viti95]

Looks awesome!! I'm pretty sure users will love this. A simple question, does this launcher work with monochrome videocards (like MDA or Hercules)? Those have different base address for text modes and the attributes are different compared to color modes.

[SpitFire-666]

Good question. Since it's all text based I think it would work for any video card/res but I'm no expert.

I can drop you a demo version if you'd like to test it out!

[SpitFire-666]

Here's the EXE, only a few menu items work right now. I tried it on my 386 with 16 shade orange plasma display and it didn't blow it up 💪!

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlE-uu5DK9rJgdR5RCEQg0ov3l-sxw?e=DI8gP6

[arrowgent]

i was thinking of a simple batch file
but your fancy exe is more powerful

[EndlessEden]

Think it would be better if it used menus that stored the values in a text file config, that retained them as "Defaults" after each launch, rather then linear-prompts.

like

Launch -> [Launches with selected options, stored in conf as default.]
Choose Game [wad chooser] -> [linear prompts of the wad files, from "Game Wads" directory]
Options -> (Video Options -> [Contents of the gif]) (Sound Options -> Sound Effects -> [SB, etc; like the original doom setup] | Midi -> [Midi-type, midi port, etc.;] | Manual-Mode[Text prompt, with string with parameters stored in conf]) (Extra Commandline Options -> [text prompt with variable string stored in conf]) (Game Wads -> [Text entry for WAD Directory] )
Quit Launcher -> [exits status 0]