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Re: Retrotunes as your cellphone ringtone

Posted on 2015-08-03, 09:23

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heh, mine's a section of the Turrican II intro music. Gotta rotate them every once in a while, because it sucks when good tunes become (subconsciously) associated with the annoyance of a ringing phone. ;) I also used the Alley Cat title music for a while (PC speaker version -- use with an ultra- …

Re: WtF, M$?

Posted on 2015-08-01, 16:05

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Skype was always a badly-coded exercise in system instability. On my previous setup, having Skype running would completely prevent Apache from starting (I've stopped running Apache locally because I no longer have to, but I wouldn't be surprised if the problem is still there). I still have to use …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2015-07-07, 13:28

(this also incorporates VileRancour's recent suggestion) I believe I have a somewhat better one. Just doubling the saturation looks alright overall, but causes the fringing (and clipping) to be a little more prominent. Besides, as you've already mentioned, new CGA's difference would be more …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2015-07-07, 12:42

I have two clone CGA systems which have composite output, but the artifact colours are completely different from CGA. So I wonder if they cloned PCjr's colours instead. These cards are Plantronics-compatible, so like the PCjr, they have 16-colour RGBI modes. With artifacting, you can get more than …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2015-07-05, 00:20

Well, neither of those cards is going to change much for Jungle Hunt, at least if we're talking about the "wandering white scanlines" issue - that's just shoddy code, I'm afraid. I was just considering new-style CGA emulation in general, and which brightness/saturation/contrast adjustments it should …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2015-07-03, 21:10

On a real IBM PC with an IBM CGA card even I had trouble with Jungle Hunt getting the white status bar text all the time. It would usually cycle its location on the screen each time you died. Well, that's what DOSBox does as well now; better than not at all. ;) By the way, your IBM CGA is 'new- …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2015-07-03, 12:28

Yet another advantage of this new patch (vs. SVN) is that line-wise palette changes are now supported: hunt.png (new-style CGA - compare to this .) By the way, this shot was achieved by kicking up contrast and saturation considerably, and lowering the brightness. This seems to give results much …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2015-07-01, 02:23

Whoops - actually it's quite trivial (I just completely forgot about it since it doesn't work terribly well on real hardware). I've fixed it in the attached patch (though not tested it yet). Hmm, this appears to work as expected for old CGA, but not for new CGA... the latter should represent the 16 …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2015-06-28, 18:41

Played around with the latest patch and noticed a couple of things: - mode 5 is shown in color, unlike current SVN (given the new method, I assume that a fix wouldn't be trivial?) - in new CGA mode, the default brightness/contrast values may be a little off (high white is 239,239,239) Other than …

Re: Making music with DOS

Posted on 2015-06-26, 11:44

in Milliways
Do you have a good resource for samples? I have some ideas floating around for some BGM for my YT channel, but I'm struggling to get started without samples. Early on I just used to rip samples from any source I could get my hands on - game music (from Star Control II to Unreal), various musicians, …

Re: Making music with DOS

Posted on 2015-06-25, 14:18

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Huh. Diode had an interview with Vice? That's really cool. Yeah, although it's a bit disappointing that their angle seems to be "omg I just saw this dude on facebook who trolls reddit, and he uses old computers (GASP!) to make music!", as if that was the discovery of the decade and nobody else had …

Re: Glorious PC Master Race - An Endangered Species

Posted on 2015-06-25, 13:59

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Report it for what? Posting his opinion about pride? It's amazing how a few of you always freak out whenever somebody says the word 'God' in a post. Ignore them all you want, but if you seriously think a person should be banned for that, then ban me too. One moment someone's called out for …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2015-06-16, 01:05

There's also Dune Dynasty , which is more recent than that Indie Retro News (snicker) page and isn't mentioned there. "Classic Dune, Modern Controls" (it sez 'ere). You know, I would've liked to see more Dune game based on the other books in the series (the original series - not the awful literary …

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