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Like many other 8-bit and 16-bit games, Donkey Kong Land 2 uses a monospace font since that is the easiest type of text display to implement on systems that internally divide sprites and backgrounds into square (usually 8x8 pixel) chunks.

However, for an unknown reason, the period character in this game is not aligned where it should normally be in a monospace font (bottom left or middle of its tile) but in the bottom right instead, causing it to appear as though there is a space before it instead of after it. This results in some of the text looking incorrect, such as "K. Rool Duel" appearing as "K .Rool Duel" (note that internally, there is no space and only a period character, so the actual string of text in the code is "K.Rool Duel").

It might be good for those of you looking to learn a bit about using a Linux distro, getting more comfortable with the terminal, or just like doing things yourself. It's also otherwise a good idea because things like Lutris install scripts often have issues.

The guide will constantly be refined and updated in case of issues, or just to improve readability. I've tried to explain a great deal without making it unnecessarily long.

Let me know what you think, I really hope it helps someone.

short answer:

probably C:, if not D:, but could be anything up to Z:

long answer:

It depends entirely on which version of DOS this machine uses.

Originally DOS assigned all floppy drives first, then hard drives, then network drives. So a system with three floppy drives and one hard drive would get floppy drives A:, B:, C:, hard drive D:

DOS 5.0 (from 1991) changed it, and it now does the first two floppy drives, then the primary partition of hard drives, then all the extra partitions of hard drives, THEN floppy drives from 3 and up.

So a single hard drive machine (assuming it's not partitioned into multiple drives) with three floppy drives, will have floppy drives A:, B:, and D:, with hard drive C:.

historical answer:

It originally worked this way because DOS copied how CP/M did it, and CP/M just assigned the letters A-Z to all drives, without treating hard drives specially (especially because you probably didn't have a hard drive back then)

actual answer:

The floppy drive is A:. This machine only has one floppy drive.

This case has blanking plates for the 3.5" floppy drive bays that look like fake 3.5" floppy drives. I don't know why it does this, it's very weird and confusing, and in this picture they've installed neither of the possible 3.5" floppy drives, so both of those are fake, and only the 5.25" drive is real.

mythbusters recreate-the-myth answer:

I went into 86box and set up an IBM XT with three floppy drives, and installed DOS 3.3 and then DOS 5.0 on it:

Here in DOS 3.3, you can see that our floppy drives got numbered A:, B:, and C:, and the hard drive is D:

This used the same drive-redirection mechanism introduced in DOS 3 for network shares, just instead of a TSR turning drive access into network communication, the MSCDEX/Driver combo would turn it into a CD-ROM drive access.

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Officially licensed 1996 Super Mario 64 collectible tin (originally filled with chocolates), from Japan.

Friendly reminder as we get closer to the launch of the ModRetro M64. ModRetro is owned by Palmer Lucky, a self described “Radical Zionist” who fundraises for Donald Trump.

Palmer Lucky also has another company, called Anduril Industries, that manufactures and sells AI powered weapons and surveillance systems. ModRetro even sells Anduril branded gameboys that were made from the same metal that they use to manufacture attack drones.

They seem to be pushing the fact that there are new Nintendo64 games being made for the M64. This is very misleading because any game that runs on the M64 will run on a real Nintendo 64.