DreadMD

Devlog

• "Can it run Dread?"
  September 22, 2026 by Happy-Ferret

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  #VirtualBoy, #SNES, #N64, #Ports, #C

  After my initial work on DreadMD, I spent most of Sunday and Monday recreating the original codebase in portable C. The result of this can be seen below. It started out with the (still fairly unoptimi... Continue reading

  
• E1M1 (Alpha) the second
  September 20, 2026 by Happy-Ferret

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  #MD, #WRAM, #Optimizations

  A Discord user has informed me that the way I was using SRAM for scratch memory/as a WorkRAM expansion really doesn't work well on real hardware (where most flash cartridges utilize 8 bit SRAM and not... Continue reading
• E1M1 (Alpha)
  September 20, 2026 by Happy-Ferret

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  #E1M1, #MegaDrive, #Genesis, #Sega, #Doom, #Alpha

  People always say I polish things too much and am too much of a perfectionist, so I've recently taken to force myself to release things at a break-a-neck pace. That being said, here's a very early alp... Continue reading

  
• Are we E1M1 yet?
  September 19, 2026 by Happy-Ferret

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  #Doom, #E1M1, #Genesis, #Sega, #Mega Drive, #Importer, #BSP, #Vis List, #PVS

  I'm kinda tired after working on this for 15 hours straight so I'll leave the technical write-up for another day and just give y'all a short impression of E1M1 inside what I'll know (tongue-in-cheek)... Continue reading

  
• Coming soon to a Blockbuster Video near you: Dread SNES
  September 19, 2026 by Happy-Ferret#engine, #snes, #toolset, #prototype

  Just thought I'd let people see some screenshots of a very early Super Nintendo prototype of Dread I've been working on. Even with the 32-bit arithmetic largely chipped away, performance isn't great y... Continue reading