Congratulations, Paul. Works fine on both on my Win98SE and XP.

GWEEE!!! /me goes off to test the patch

NOOOOOOOO! DOESN'T WORK! (But at least it looks nice and sharp for the .5 seconds it runs 😉)

oh, by the way, WHY is the GliDOS logo still there? I even generated my OWN CODES and ... gah. Death.

Still gives the same stupid crappy window with grey boxes on it. Arrgh. Maybe updating my graphics drivers will help. I meant to do that earlier to fix SDL problems. I'm just lazy like that.

Originally posted by Snover GWEEE!!! /me goes off to test the patch

See? You jinxed yourself. Test first, before expressing victory. (BTW, this also why I specified that it worked on my Win98 and XP. )

Some stuff:

Using GliDOS hacked VESA support it sounds like I get music output as well as audio output. That, however, makes stuff mostly white. Mipmapping just screws everything up. Touching audio setup crap (# channels, mix frequency) didn't fix anything. Argh. Still screwed in Win2K.

HaHa! works now! theres still a framerate problem on my comp though

Dont worry I fixed it (used turbo pascal fix)

Snover wrote:

NOOOOOOOO! DOESN'T WORK! (But at least it looks nice and sharp for the .5 seconds it runs 😉)

Yeh, my changes wont help people for which it fails to run or
crashes. It is only the graphics anomalies. I have some trouble under XP. I start it from Glidos, so the various files get copied across, but that doesn't always work, so sometimes I then double-click the blood.bat file.

oh, by the way, WHY is the GliDOS logo still there? I even generated my OWN CODES and ... gah. Death.

Ah, you ddidn't think that copy of Authgen had my true private key in it did you? 😀

Still gives the same stupid crappy window with grey boxes on it. Arrgh. Maybe updating my graphics drivers will help. I meant to do that earlier to fix SDL problems. I'm just lazy like that.

Pretty sure the grey box is where a window has closed uncovering an area after the program has died (so the area doesn't get rerendered). Wonder what window it was; looks the size of the VDMSound hint box, but I'd very much doubt you had that enabled.

Snover wrote:

Some stuff:

Using GliDOS hacked VESA support it sounds like I get music output as well as audio output. That, however, makes stuff mostly white. Mipmapping just screws everything up. Touching audio setup crap (# channels, mix frequency) didn't fix anything. Argh. Still screwed in Win2K.

Win2k? You are doing much better than me on Win2K. I just get background with no menus. And it fails reading the .dem headers if I don't delete the .dem files.

Unregistered wrote:

Dont worry I fixed it (used turbo pascal fix)

What's the turbo pascal fix? Sounds useful.

Originally posted by Glidos What's the turbo pascal fix? Sounds useful.

Probably TPPATCH or CTBPPAT or a similar to fix programs that break with "runtime" errors. For BLOOD though, that should only be needed for the CRYPTIC.EXE for "Cryptic Passages", though.

Hmmm, worth remembering.

Turbo Pascal fix ajusts the program to work on a prossessor faster then 233mhz, it fix my framerate problem on blood, but i get a few skips every so often

Paul u should update the website now saying blood is supported

I would hold off on that. There still seems to be too much inconsistency of results. The sky artifacts will always be there. I'm willing to bet it would become a support headache.

Perhaps a side-note mentioning it.

There's more I want to do for Blood, anyway. I think I can get linear interpolation in both axis. It should be possible to collect together the little rectangles into large quadrilaterals and recalculate the perspective for the texture mapping. I don't know why the 3dfx porter didn't do that... maybe it isn't possible, but I'm going to give it a try.

Make it work for W2K first! *cry*

Snover wrote:

Make it work for W2K first! *cry*

does running blood in fullscreen work?

That shouldn't matter. The graphics are exported to OpenGlide so Running in Full/Windows wouldn't matter a bit.