Notices by thp (thp@dosgame.club)

@jwildeboer Make treats "$" as special character. $$ escapes it, so that the shell sees just a "$".

@jwildeboer The backslash is interpreted by the shell, the single "$" is interpreted (consumed) by make, as it tries to access a variable $" (dollar-sign, followed by double-quote). To echo a "$", you need to:

1. Escape using "\" for the shell
2. Escape using "$$" for make

Note how the make output of the first file is just the line:

echo "\

And the second invocation gets it as:

echo "\$"

After all those DOS Game Jams, maybe a Win32 jam for a change? Starting tomorrow, and you have ~ 2 months to fill your idle cycles with creating a game for an old-but-still-alive API:

https://itch.io/jam/win32-jam-autumn-2024

Now released: The DOS Game Jam Demo Disc (2023 Edition). Fresh DOS games curated from recent Itch.io DOS Game Jams (+ some other sources) for your enjoyment: https://thp.io/2024/demodisc/ -- including a fancy menu for easy navigation, and the ISO is bootable (FreeDOS).