Re: Zsoft pcx madness

Posted on 2023-03-24, 21:14

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Nice idea but Hex compare is not of much help because the size of source file vs pcx saved with pc paint 3 is much different. Are the colors 1:1 as on the real machine ? don't know what pal those images had on PC88/98? Are these already converted when using the EGA (hires) pal of just 64colors? I …

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Re: Zsoft pcx madness

Posted on 2023-03-24, 14:29

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Checked. PC Paint 3.. It seems to write the sample in the same format as it had read it. Yeah, we're getting there... but still not 1:1 (yeah, I'm a perfectionist) This is from an official .gcx file uploaded on checkfiletype.com: PCX ver. 3.0 image data bounding box [0, 0] - [639, 399], 4 planes …

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Re: Zsoft pcx madness

Posted on 2023-03-24, 10:10

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I still have a collection of some pixel-art of that category in pcx or gif format. (not sure if it was originally PCX) Must be 640x350 16color EGA pal and some 640x480 16color VGA pal. Variable Geo uses Zsoft PCX ver. 3.0 640x400 resolution, 4 planes each of 1-bit (16 colors), 640 x 480 dpi, RLE …

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Re: Zsoft pcx madness

Posted on 2023-03-23, 14:36

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It's teased in the ending. Where? If you mean the final image with super deformed Reimi, I managed to partially translate the ultra-pixelated chinese traditional text: 我想...該跟你說聲恭喜吧!! (I think... it's time to say congratulations!!) 好悲XX (So sad XX) where XX stands for 2 chinese symbols I cannot …

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Zsoft pcx madness

Posted on 2023-03-22, 23:33

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The game: Variable Geo taiwanese PC port The experiment: to restore a censored image to Pc98 hentai glory* The problem: the bastard uses gcx files, those are no other than Zsoft PCX files in a weird "4 planes each of 1-bit 640 x 480 dpi, RLE compressed" format (source: checkfiletype.com) and 16 …

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Re: The smurfs: Teletransportsmurf

Posted on 2023-02-25, 16:03

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Thanx! I admit I never opened the manual

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The smurfs: Teletransportsmurf

Posted on 2023-02-24, 01:32

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Dos cdrom game from 1995 by Infogrames. I cannot access "Parents menu" in all the versions I tried. Cannot test on genuine Dos though. Maybe has something to do with the internal time clock?

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Re: 360kb and 1.2mb floppy drives

Posted on 2023-02-14, 15:36

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It's a disk with shareware from germany, for PC. Since the floppy had a bad shape (mould and dirt) I thought it was unreadable for that reason, and it stayed on my desk for months. But apparently it was just that Windows 7 didn't recognize that and wanted me to reformat. I casually discovered all …

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Re: 360kb and 1.2mb floppy drives

Posted on 2023-02-14, 14:44

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A 3.5" disk I won in an auction is 360k. Wait a moment, isn't this capacity supposed to be for 5.25" disks? 😮

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Re: History of a dump went wrong :cry:

Posted on 2023-02-13, 23:58

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Other than the mold, I don't know why but in my personal experience, 720 disks are "stronger" against oxide coating flaking off, I had a lot more high density destroyed (bad quality?) disks during recent years. Sometimes files or entire disks without visible damage just become unreadable (the OS …

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Re: History of a dump went wrong :cry:

Posted on 2023-02-13, 16:11

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https://i.ibb.co/0nrYRx3/P-20230213-150855.jpg Basically the same thing began again today: this disk never moved since 1990!!! Looking at the surface, it had the weird white-ish pattern, mold or maybe the internal cleaning fabric that rotted away. Even the sliding metal shutter has signs of what …

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Re: dgvoodoo2's bugs feat. obscure games

Posted on 2023-02-07, 23:42

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Pirates of the caribbean - legend of jack sparrow The game ingame rendering is always equal to desktop resolution, weird behavior for resolutions higher than 720p: it shifts the image offcentered. Using dgvoodoo2 apparently cannot fix this problem. Shaun White Snowboarding ( fixed exe for ht cpus) …

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Re: dgVodooo 2.7.x and related WIP versions (2)

Posted on 2023-01-22, 13:41

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Anyone managed to successfully crank resolution in Shaun White Snowboarding using dgv2? Black screen (it hangs?) when running HT patched exe with dege's dlls.

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Re: dgVodooo 2.7.x and related WIP versions (2)

Posted on 2023-01-17, 22:41

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Good job Dege! One of the recent betas fixed the bugs in Pc powerdunkers, it's now playable!

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Re: How to clean 3.5" floppy disks (not drives)?

Posted on 2022-08-09, 22:09

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Afaik if a reasonable use of isopropyl alcohol damages the disk surface, the floppy was already unrecoverable/decomposed/lost to begin with. See my past bad experience here ! I sometimes find smaller or bigger stains of white mold on the surface (not on the whole disk) that I remove with gentle use …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2022-06-12, 01:55

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Thanks for the hint! In order to make Disney sound source work with those games I had to set disney=true AND parallel1=disney About the ps1 audio card, I'm still failing to make it work correctly: it's either mute like in Bushbuck ("bushbuck /ps1" at commandline) or giving static/corrupt sounds like …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2022-06-11, 23:09

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Is it me or Disney Sound Source is broken again? Coktel's games I tried that support Intersound MDO clone don't work anymore at least (it works with latest svn build like the EmuCR one). Please can somebody add this problem (and broken Ps1 audio card too) to Dosbox-x github? I registered some time …

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Re: dgVodooo 2.7.x and related WIP versions (2)

Posted on 2022-04-11, 16:53

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Shaun White Snowboarding black screen when enabling antialiasing. The game works, you can hear sounds and navigate the menus but the display is totally black. NOTE: I used the hacked exe that makes the game run on 8+ logical cpus (hyperthreading fix).

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2022-04-08, 23:41

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Good job guys. Dosbox-x keeps becoming better and better! I'd like to see Ps1 audiocard emulation returning to work someday...

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Re: Pac-Man World 2

Posted on 2022-03-18, 13:26

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You want a costructive reply and your topic not being banned? ***HINT*** Don't use the magic word cr@ck in this forum 😉

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