Hey guys,
Decided to host a July 8086 Games Jam over on Itch.io. The jam is unranked and just for fun.

The requirements is that submissions should work on an 8086 based system. Usage of an 8087 math co-processor is also cool.

No 186/286/386/486/etc instructions should be used and the game should run in 16 bit mode.

All video modes acceptable!
All audio devices are acceptable (as is not supporting audio)!
All network protocols are acceptable (as is not supporting any networking)

Projects can use data files but they should not exceed 1.4 Megabytes total (including executable). Executables can be EXEs, COM files, or even booters.

https://itch.io/jam/8086-games-jam

Oooh, sounds cool!
Shame my XT clone is nerfed at the moment… I might still try to clobber something together if I find the time, testing it in 86Box or something.

It will be fun!

I’m not sure what I’m targetting TBH, because being 8086 VGA is a bit difficult (the IBM PS/2 introduced it with the 286, I think). I don’t feel like doing CGA, and EGA sucks to program.

Not having restrictions on the memory model, I guess I can go 64K code and 64K data, but it is going to be awkward for sure if I do VGA 😀