Real-time strategy for x86 processors made in assembly.

Features

• VGA 320x200, 16 colors, 4 colors per tiles, 3 + transparency for sprites
• Arne 16 color palette
• 2D tile-based top-down view
• Procedural map generation
• Big, 128x128 tiles, map
• 16x16 sprites/tiles in 4 colors
• No framebuffer, redrawing only parts that changed
• RLE image compression for pre-rendered backgrounds
• Game state machine
• Windows and Menu system
• Sound effects (PC Speaker)
• Rails system with pods transporting goods
• Main base expansion + buildings
• 3 type of resources to extract, transport, and refine
• Development tools (vibe coded C):
  • png2asm - compress tileset to assembly db
  • rleimg2asm - compress 320x200 images to assembly RLE db
  • fnt2asm - compress font tileset to assemlby db

Tileset

Running

Boot from a floppy or run on MS-DOS (FreeDOS).

Building

Create floppy and binary: make

Make just binary: make com

Check statistics: make stats

For more targets check help. make help

Tools

png2asm

For converting .png tilemap into 2-bit compressed and palettes assembly code. ./png2asm tileset.png palettes.png ../../src/tiles.asm

rleimg2asm

For converting .png image into RLE compressed assembly code. ./rleimg2asm frames/p1x.png ../../src/img_p1x.asm -asm p1x_logo_image -stats

fnt2asm

For converting .png font charset into 1-bit compressed assembly code. ./fnt2asm font.png ../../src/font.asm