Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-10-02, 12:40
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-10-02, 12:32
When talking about not being able to customize EGA palette; you mean actual EGA card? Because on actual EGA card, you can select all 16 colors to be anything from the available 64 colors (6-bit colors, two bits per RGB color component). Not in 320x200, which was the subject here - EGA limits its …
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-10-01, 22:18
The clone I refer to is for PC (DOS), and I guess I'll submit it to Moby as well so it'll be there in a few days in case there's still no guess ;) Pending now, but here's an even fatter clue in the meantime: it was released in 1995, and the author announced it on Usenet. C'mon, shouldn't be hard …
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-09-30, 21:11
Okay, this is the Amiga original: http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/achtung-die-kurve (and what I was referring to is specifically the alternate "Dune 3" title). It's grouped under "light cycle games" so might have not shown up under "snake variants", I guess. The clone I refer to is for PC (DOS), …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-30, 16:42
The EGA/VGA choice is not just an artistic one. Keep in mind that VGA graphics require TWICE the amout of memory that regular EGA graphics would require. Combined with the 640k limit, that means you can have a lot more variety in EGA than you would in VGA, using the same amount of memory. But even …
Re: Started a long-overdue project this evening
Posted on 2016-09-28, 22:10
TSE Pro is a pure Win32 application (which renders its own text-mode UI - feels like a console window, but isn't). Still great. I still have hundreds of our old homemade floppies, mostly ancient 5.25" DD disks but there's a box of 3.5"s too. Don't think most of them are still fully readable, but …
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-09-26, 19:30
Damnit, one or the other is a total knockoff then. :P When you trace the lineage, they're actually both knockoffs of the same thing. ;) As a hint: the original was an Amiga game with a title which *pretends* to belong to a well-known franchise/fictional universe, although it has very little to do …
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-09-22, 23:48
Well then you should look again at your old screenshot - I did the same for Viper on Moby myself, and I can tell you that's not it 😁
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-09-22, 23:22
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Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-09-22, 22:14
Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)
Posted on 2016-09-19, 07:18
Actually that's just about perfect. You rock! :D Q205A_good.png That first font just needs some slight rearrangement. It's 8x14 (probably meant to display at 9x14, Monochrome-like) so those bottom two scanlines of each character are unused, although they actually seem to contain the character's 8- …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-17, 17:10
Question: what exactly is the "BEARD BONUS", anyhow? an oblique reference that shall remain oblique, since I don't fancy being harvested by the aforementioned lackey army... and of course I totally wasn't referring to anybody in particular :D Yeah, wasn't a serious suggestion by any stretch, but …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-17, 12:33
Make it a strategy/simulation game: Abandonware Tycoon! Your task is to hunt the internet for crappy cracked copies of old DOS games. The ultimate goal is to monopolize the adoration of the nostalgic masses, and to maximize your e-peen. However, you face fierce competition from *real* software …
Re: Want to use PC Speaker and not Sound Blaster in StarControl 1
Posted on 2016-09-15, 20:34
Here's the speaker patch updated against current SVN (r3995): dosbox_r3995_digi_pcspkr.diff and for testing purposes, a debug-enabled win32 build: dosbox_r3995_digi_pcspkr.zip ====================== I had a look at the reported Impossible Mission II regression. All versions seem to be affected, but …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-08, 17:20
Yes. Hello VileR! Thinking about joining the party? *^_^* Heh, it could be fun, but free time isn't very abundant lately (and what little there is tends to be absorbed in other hobby stuff, heh). I'm all for new games for old PCs, just to show up those C64/Spectrum/etc. guys who still churn them …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-08, 11:21
^ But why would all these modern-game considerations even apply to developing for an *obsolete* environment? Working with limited resolutions, color depths, performance etc. should be part of the fun and challenge.
Re: Release: RATillery, an artillery game for PC
Posted on 2016-09-07, 06:37
Truly an oldschool-spirited project, from the 100% assembly coding to the booter version. We need more of this kind of stuff. 😀
Re: Issues after PC Upgrade from Core 2 Duo Win7 to i5 Win10
Posted on 2016-09-06, 17:47
With "config -r" the parameters that follow the "-r" are identical to what you'd give DOSBOX.EXE when you run it from the host. So you can use "-c" to accomplish that: config -r -machine vesa_nolfb -c start.bat (note that "start.bat" will be executed *after* whatever appears in the [autoexec] …
Re: Patch for pixel-perfect scaling [was:Full-screen mode]
Posted on 2016-09-04, 21:08
What were the resolutions of the game and of your desktop? It is simply impossible to have pixel-perfect aspect correction if the native desktop resolution is not high enough. For example—the standard 640x400 textmode on a 1680x1050 monitor can only be upscaled by a factor of two without aspect …
Re: Whats a good format to have music in?
Posted on 2016-09-04, 19:59
Then again I mainly listen to hard rock/metal, so there's no such thing as too loud. :happy: I do too, so I prefer it when it *doesn't* sound flat because some engineer killed all the headroom that made the loudness effective... remasters can (and do) improve on older versions without resorting to …
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