Johnny DreamCastaway

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kremiso
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Johnny DreamCastaway

Post by kremiso »

another well made port that deserve more views imo

the 1992 Sierra "the world's first story-telling screen saver" :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Castaway

ported to the Dreamcast, from Hunter Davis
not a playable game, you just watch Johnny doing things day by day on his lost isle :)

you can find all the port details, the download links, and even the source code on the developer page :

http://www.hunterdavis.com/2021/03/21/j ... eased.html
johnnyDC.JPG

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pcwzrd13
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Re: Johnny DreamCastaway

Post by pcwzrd13 »

This is awesome! I used to watch this screensaver on my PC almost nonstop!
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FlorreW
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Re: Johnny DreamCastaway

Post by FlorreW »

Thx for posting. Forgot about this until now, used to watch it as a kid as well :)

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Re: Johnny DreamCastaway

Post by MastaG »

Thanks for this!
I used to have this screensaver on Windows 95 or 98 back when I was a kid lol

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Re: Johnny DreamCastaway

Post by djhazardous »

Does this crash/hard freeze after about an hour for anyone else with a GDEMU?

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Re: Johnny DreamCastaway

Post by djhazardous »

It crashed twice for me and it's when the old pirate ship shows up on the left.

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Johne
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Re: Johnny DreamCastaway

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djhazardous wrote:Does this crash/hard freeze after about an hour for anyone else with a GDEMU?
Yes, froze for me too. Both CD or Dreamshell

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Re: Johnny DreamCastaway

Post by Ian Micheal »

djhazardous wrote:Does this crash/hard freeze after about an hour for anyone else with a GDEMU?

crashes after hour prolly a memory leak

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Re: Johnny DreamCastaway

Post by djhazardous »

Johne wrote:
djhazardous wrote:Does this crash/hard freeze after about an hour for anyone else with a GDEMU?
Yes, froze for me too. Both CD or Dreamshell
That's a shame, thanks for confirming that for me. Hopefully the developer will release a fixed version one day as I like having it on in the background lol.

I couldn't even get it to work with Dreamshell on my other DC, it just reboots the console. Does it play CDI or does it need to be converted?

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deluxux
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Re: Johnny DreamCastaway

Post by deluxux »

I dont think this was ever tested on real hardware judging from the website...
johnnydreamcastawayreleasethread.jpg