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Yeah, things were so much simpler then, no dependencies everything compiled into one binary and running on the same 320x200 everywhere
You might want to also check out FreePascal which supports a very large number of platforms including DOS.
For something more modern I'm playing these days with Solar2D, also compiles to many platforms and has an emulator that makes the dev cycle extremely fast.

Hey!  Congratulations!  I'm very pleased to find a fellow contemporary DOS game programmer!  Maybe we could do some collaboration at some point 

Nice, what are you working on these days?

Not sure it's a good time investment to do anything sizable for DOS anymore. I decided to finish the project because porting it to something new would have been a lot more work (real mode, direct VGA and sound access in 8086 asm). These days gaming frameworks do everything out of the box that took months to implement 25 yrs ago.

Nice work! Although it was inspired by Micro Machines, it reminds me of Super Speed.  The development history is quite an interesting story as well.  Do you have the magazine article that featured your demo?

I do have it yes, maybe should scan it an add to the website. It was a magazine called PC Guru (Hungary). Unfortunately they did not write an actual review but pasted most of my own words from the readme. If only I'd known, I'd have written it properly lol

The voice of the trailer is yours in 1998 or from your kid?

it's my son. The "checkpoint" voice is me from 98 though

Carser is a top-down view single player retro racing game.

It was released in 2023 for MS-DOS, development took a bit of a pause in 1998
Discovering zakstunts and this community gave the inspiration and final boost to actually finish this game!


The goal is to go through all checkpoints and get the fastest time possible.
Nitro boosts, jump ramps, ferry boats, rail level crossings, road blocks, cows, oil spills, gates and traffic will make this challenging.
Shortcuts and offroading are allowed but your car can only take a certain amount of damage before it slows down and eventually blows up.
There are 20 levels to complete to get to the final prize and animation which will unlock new cars.

A map editor is included to make your own levels!

Replays are saved for the best runs on each level. They also serve as proof that the level and frame rate was not tampered with.

Download / Play here: http://rodisoft.com

On Dosbox you'll need ~35k cycles to play full fps.