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Re: What makes something Retro

Posted on 2016-10-30, 18:46

in Milliways
For example, someone made the game "You have to win the game": http://store.steampowered.com/app/286100/ It looks like an early 80s CGA game. However, it requires a modern PC with a GPU with shaders to run it. To prove how the game is missing the point, someone re-made the game on an actual C64: …

Re: Well, should I ask this girl to coffee or not?

Posted on 2016-10-19, 09:45

in Milliways
What, cultural differences exist?! NO WAI! If this plain fact of life inspires you to get either too hung up on someone's background, or worked up over 'generalizations', you're doing it wrong. 😉 Just be smart about it, tailor your expectations and be alert for individual nuances.

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2016-10-17, 10:01

I've never encountered the Druuge so I know little of how their mechanics work. The most I know is that you give them large amounts of crew members for reasons. :P Correct, which BTW is one way to increase crew costs at the starbase, since you were wondering about that. Won't completely spoil …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2016-10-16, 20:53

Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Well done! SC2 is probably still my favorite game, and I've fanboyed enough over it for the last 2+ decades, so I'll just mention a couple of things: first, the starmap is zoomable (since you were talking about some star systems being too close together to resolve on the …

Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going

Posted on 2016-10-08, 22:20

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The only problem is creating IMF songs that work at that rate, since they are usually converted from MIDI. The MIDI files are usually not made for really low playback rates like 18 Hz. 140 Hz works for most things without noticeable differences, and so should 70 Hz. Back around 2005 or so I had a …

Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-10-08, 21:53

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DonutKing wrote: Pune? I'd never even heard of it 😵 Yep! Wasn't my intention to post something *that* obscure this time - a coworker of mine mentioned this game a while ago, so I thought some here might know it as well. 😀 Your turn then...

Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-10-08, 16:55

in Milliways
Nah 😀 Let's give Moby one more day to approve my damn submission so the first person to spot it could get this one for free... otherwise this round can end. EDIT: it's up on MG. No excuses now 😁

Re: DOS screenshot and animated GIF database

Posted on 2016-10-07, 21:43

in DOS
No, you capture a video and convert that to gif. With what? Photoshop does it (Import > Video Frames to Layers, Create Frame Animation) and so does ffmpeg on the command line. There are probably dozens of other tools, even if you disregard all the browser-based ones and meme generators that slap …

Re: Pitstop 2 - CGA modes & controls

Posted on 2016-10-04, 12:15

Doesn't look like the intended colors. In fact this is what you'd get if the *composite* graphics (selectable by hitting "1" after the title screen) were somehow running in mode 4 (320x200 palette 0 background 1) instead of mode 6 (foreground 0xA) as they should be, and viewed on RGB instead of a …

Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going

Posted on 2016-10-02, 15:25

in Milliways
Well, no, that design decision for the monitor determined the card's behavior in turn. So in 200-line mode the EGA doesn't send out the signal you'd need for 'RGBrgb' - the pin for 'g' becomes 'I' instead (intensity), and the 'r'+'b' pins are disabled. You can still program your palette indexes with …

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