Re: Wacky Wheels with higher FPS?
Posted on 2023-05-27, 15:50
Yeah, sorry for not clarifying this in the first place, my bad. 😅 The game is "meant" to run so slow, it's not down to any performance issues.
Wacky Wheels with higher FPS?
Posted on 2023-05-27, 07:46
I've recently went back to play Wacky Wheels, but oh my that frame-rate gives me a headache. Is there any mod, remaster or some magic that increases the frame-rate maybe? (And no I'm not talking about that modern 3D remake 😅)
Retrospective Video on Savage Warriors
Posted on 2023-02-05, 17:09
Hi everyone, I've recently re-discovered Savage Warriors, the fighting game for MS Dos and made a video about it. Played that game for quite a while back then and really like the characters and their 3D look. ^^ Thought this might interest a few of you, so here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/ …
Searching large low-resolution Pixel Art Images
Posted on 2022-04-11, 09:58
Hello, I want to print my own mousepad and I'd love to put some art from old point and click adventures on it. But as the resolutions of those EGA/VGA games was so low I don't think it will look great. Now I don't want to put multiple images on there so I'm looking for a nice art-work in the old …
Zeppelin Giants of the Sky Retrospective and Developer Interview
Posted on 2022-04-03, 10:00
Hello there, I had the opportunity to interview the original developer of the game "Zeppelin" from 1994. I've made a video about the game and included his answers there. If you're interested you can find it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwVsavzUjHs Cheers
Re: Zeppelin Giants of the Sky Mouse Axis Sensitivity Issues
Posted on 2022-03-25, 07:03
Works like a charm. Thanks a lot! 😁
Zeppelin Giants of the Sky Mouse Axis Sensitivity Issues
Posted on 2022-03-24, 15:54
Hi, I'm trying to play Zeppelin but the mouse cursor movement is completely off. The X-Axis moves way faster than the Y-Axis (and the cursor flickers which might be a different problem or just how the game looks). It is probably related with the "hires" 640 VGA mode, maybe? (I'm playing in window …
HP t5710 compatability
Posted on 2022-01-25, 14:10
Hello, I've read through a few posts about Thin Clients on the forums but would appreciate to get some confirmation on how well this machine is suited for DOS games. What could I expect in terms of compatability from that machine? I'm afraid it's too fast for many old games. If my memory serves me …
Re: Filters not working with EGA games?
Posted on 2022-01-16, 13:57
Thanks for the info. I've tried DosBox Optionals and found a few great filters or scalers or whatever. 😅
Filters not working with EGA games?
Posted on 2022-01-16, 11:40
I tried different filters with the "forced" argument and "aspect" true and false but whenever I start an EGA game there's no filtering going on. I've tried two different DosBox versions but that didn't help, I tried surface and opengl but no luck either. When I start a VGA game everything is fine ( …
Re: How does Sierra's EGA640.DRV even work?
Posted on 2022-01-16, 07:26
weedeewee wrote on 2022-01-15, 20:02: Good_Punk wrote on 2022-01-15, 19:01: I've finally finished the video... you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGjCLLaYFKA 😀 Any chance of adding a list of all the games you showed at the end of the video in the description ? I only know a few …
Re: How does Sierra's EGA640.DRV even work?
Posted on 2022-01-15, 19:01
I've finally finished the video... you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGjCLLaYFKA 😀
Re: How does Sierra's EGA640.DRV even work?
Posted on 2021-12-28, 07:04
Ok, seems like Al Lowe doesn't exactly know why they used the EGA640.DRV either. 😄 I wasn’t involved with that driver’s development, so I’m not a good source for you. But there’s one thing I know about AGI and SCI: they were continually evolving, so often that you couldn’t use a driver from May with …
Re: How does Sierra's EGA640.DRV even work?
Posted on 2021-12-27, 07:51
Try contacting Al Lowe for example, his website appears to be still active. https://allowe.com/ And you could try contacting someone from Agdinteractive. I might be able to contact someone I knew years ago. I make no promisses. That's cool, I'll give it a try Try browsing this website: https:// …
Re: How does Sierra's EGA640.DRV even work?
Posted on 2021-12-26, 14:19
@good_punk: Should you make that video it might be a good idea of not just investigating how that driver does its thing but also why it was even created to begin with. That would definetly be interesting... I can try to contact some folks that used to work at Sierra... but I don't have high hopes …
Re: How does Sierra's EGA640.DRV even work?
Posted on 2021-12-26, 13:30
3.) Yes it is very intensive. There's a lot of calculation to be done to get that VGA images converted to EGA with the diterhing. You can actually see that when you turn the Cycles in DosBox down... the game becomes much more demanding when you use EGA. And yes... it is kind of self-defeating but …
Re: How does Sierra's EGA640.DRV even work?
Posted on 2021-12-26, 11:43
3.) The fascinating thing for me is that the art was not produced in EGA but it's all done programmatically. The driver takes 256 color VGA images and through a clever dithering algorithm produces that hi-res EGA output. Yes Sierra were not the only one doing that, it's still very cool in my opinion …
Re: How does Sierra's EGA640.DRV even work?
Posted on 2021-12-26, 07:13
https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/Sierra_Creative_Interpreter It seems every game from the SCI1.1 (1.001.xxx) list works perfectly if you add the EGA640.DRV and change the resource.cfg settings. 😀
Re: How does Sierra's EGA640.DRV even work?
Posted on 2021-12-26, 07:03
I think it's the other way around. Larry5 and Police Quest 3 are the SCI 1.0 games and SQ5 is an SCI 1.1 game. So the 1.0 games use the .cur files and don't work properly where the 1.1 games work just fine. :) I don't know if it's possible to upgrade a game from 1.0 to 1.1 and regarding the cursors …
Re: How does Sierra's EGA640.DRV even work?
Posted on 2021-12-25, 13:05
I have put the EGA640.DRV file in the directory of Larry5 and Police Quest 3 (They didn't come with one... at least not in my version) and changed the resources.cfg to use that driver. When I start theses games the mouse cursor is invisible. I've opened the resource files in SCI Companion and …
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