Re: Spam, spam, spam
Posted on 2012-05-28, 02:16
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2012-05-27, 19:55
Gemini: I'm usually much like you in this regard - always dismissive (and mostly suspicious) of whatever the newest internet buzzword happens to be these days. So I know where you're coming from, but in this case I just can't see anything particularly wrong with Kickstarter. Speaking of unpopular …
Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?
Posted on 2012-05-25, 15:16
I think I figured out what's going on with the PCjr's artifact color generation... or at least I seem to be thereabouts. In Servo's "scrtest" capture, The solid chroma colors (cyan and magenta) are the same as new CGA, but the blended colors aren't; empirically, that seems to mean that the 6 chroma …
Re: Carmageddon: Reincarnation Kickstarter by Stainless Games
Posted on 2012-05-25, 03:55
ooh, check out update #8 - a non-Steam, non-DRM PC version could be an option... sweet! though I'm not sure why the ETA is 10 months behind the DRM version (and "subject to change")...
Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?
Posted on 2012-05-24, 16:11
leaving the PCjr aside for a bit, here's an update of the composite CGA patch (against SVN). This addresses the changes discussed on the last page: Most of the key variables are now set in the config file, and changeable from the command line Hard-coded optimal saturation values (for both old and …
Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?
Posted on 2012-05-23, 18:50
Here's another comparison, assuming that the 0/3/5/F palette is correct, as ripsaw pointed out. Still not sure what to make of it.
Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?
Posted on 2012-05-23, 04:51
You're right; my mistake, I was using ykhwong's 0.74 build instead of the regular 0.74; it works fine in the regular version. But anyway, wasn't posting that with the intent of resolving that particular issue, merely trying to assist with the current project at hand, however I can. I really dig …
Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?
Posted on 2012-05-22, 22:07
From a glance at the PCjr tech ref (@ http://www.retroarchive.org/dos/docs/index.html) - the video gate array has 16 palette registers, addressed 10h-1Fh, which determine what color to display when reading color index values 0h-Fh from memory. In 4-color modes, only the first 4 registers are used. …
Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?
Posted on 2012-05-22, 20:23
Hmm, I don't see that with the official 0.74 release; an oddity with the patch? I can't say I remember exactly what a real PCjr does; my PCjr's RGB monitor died a while ago so I can only use composite at the moment. from what I see (in a few other threads as well), I guess there have been some …
Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?
Posted on 2012-05-22, 19:18
It will give nothing since those registers do not exist in PCjr. That is reengine's program, ask him for something that would work in a Jr. your last post seemed to suggest that Servo should take pictures of it running on a PCjr, hence my reply. Must have misread or something. Below The Root works …
Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?
Posted on 2012-05-21, 22:38
The games in the videos appear to be using mode 8/9 16-color graphics, and although the PCjr does have a composite out, things will look better in general with a RGB monitor hooked up to the RGB out. If you're suggesting some kind of composite output for all modes, that would seem to be beyond the …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2012-05-20, 16:32
leileilol wrote: it would be funny if one car was dr. sbaitso and the other was microsoft sam. Two ganerations of minspronouncing TTS voices no love for Talk It? 🙁 it totally validated the existence of Microsoft Plus! for Kids!
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2012-05-19, 19:00
Stunts is glitchy as hell. I'm pretty sure I've hit that bug just during normal play, where when you collide with something, instead of your car crashing you just ricochet backwards at the speed of sound. but that's half the fun in Stunts... it's like Carmageddon with a never-ending Pinball Mode …
Re: CGA games on PCjr
Posted on 2012-05-17, 03:27
From what I see, yes, it can. Try Alley Cat or Sokoban with machine=pcjr for proof. Some games that were written for CGA but not for the PCjr will show the symptoms you describe. I suspect that they will show the same behavior on a real PCjr (or maybe they'll be broken in a different way).
Re: CGA games on PCjr
Posted on 2012-05-17, 01:42
That is expected since the PCjr isn't fully register-compatible with CGA. Different port writes have to be done to control the palette. See: Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?
Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?
Posted on 2012-05-16, 04:14
Thanks for sharing a proper build. After doing some tests with the color-corrected new CGA, 70% seems to be an optimal saturation value: color clipping is mitigated enough to differentiate the two blue colors in Blue Angels; mode 6 and mode 4 games look fine, with minimal over/under-saturation ( …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2012-05-16, 00:38
You already had an episode on Dr. Sbaitso... just give him a temporary guest role as the narrator until your voice improves 😉 Feel better, man.
Re: And this just popped up
Posted on 2012-05-15, 03:15
Re: Spam, spam, spam
Posted on 2012-05-14, 02:50
Shulamith sig-spams about jade jewelry - should've known that most of us here were already jaded http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=266624&highlight=#266624 http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=266625&highlight=#266625 http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=266626&highlight=#266626 http://www. …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2012-05-14, 00:22
There was also the fact that my SVGA monitor at the time could only do 1024x768 at something like 50Hz interlaced ... which made those graphics even more headache-inducing. In terms of everything else though, I do think Moraff's games were generally good. There's also the funny stuff you can find in …
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