A downloadable game

About

Molten metal is mainly a tech demo for COM32, my experimental (and still quite buggy) DOS protected mode kernel, which starts as a flat binary (COM file).

There is no goal or fail state. You just play with shapes pulled out of a pool of molten metal. The effect is quite processor-intensive. At least a pentium2 is recommended.

COM32 can't operate under windows 9x or if a memory manager is running. If you have a memory manager loaded (like EMM386), COM32 will try to kick it out and take control. If it fails or hangs, try stopping it first (`emm386 off`).

If you just want to play around with the effect and don't want or can't run the DOS version, there are also executables for GNU/Linux and Windows.

Controls

Grab with the left mouse button and move the shapes around, then let them fall back into the pool by releasing the mouse button.

space: grab/release shape without using the mouse.
tab: change shape.
-/+: change the resolution of the voxel field in 5 voxel increments.
'0': return to the default voxel field resolution.

License

This program is free software, feel free to use, modify, and/or redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3, or at your option any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. See COPYING for details.

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