Thank you, it looks fine!

Must have been taken a lot of work and time to arrange things this way.

Saying that, I'm browsing your site right now and there are games I haven't seen before.

I think it's cool that there is also a playback feature for game music.

It adds a lot to the atmosphere.

Good work! 😁

i'd say add 32x32 icons, official ones if you can find them. and if not, make them

just to make the list look neater and also being an icon resource for those who manage a startmenu/launcher for them 😀

Bwahaha the Prince of Persia gif 🤣
[edit]wait...the gif keeps changing around as I page forward and back. Neat! the one I 🤣'ed at was the one with him getting chomped sliced over and over again.

Thanks for the feedback guys - I've grown the DB since my last post, now it's sitting at 890 entries (though I've been adding mostly NES games so far)

DOS section now contains most of the games I have fond memories of - once I'm done with NES and Atari 2600 sections I will add more DOS (and subsequently old Windows) games

Also interested in making gifs from old games, how can i capture every frame in png with dosbox? Pressing ctrl+f5 with light speed? 😵

No, you capture a video and convert that to gif.

VileRancour wrote:

No, you capture a video and convert that to gif.

With what?

Excellent work! How is each game rating determined? Is that taken from Moby Games, or are they your own ratings?

I just stumbled upon this thread. Great idea, great site!

One usability thing: the games have the graphics mode tags at the bottom: (CGA, EGA, etc). E.g., Test Drive animations are in CGA right now. I was expecting to see them in EGA by clicking on the EGA (16c) link at the bottom, but it lists a bunch of games instead.

I think the graphics mode links should switch the game's animation and screenshot to that format instead.

edit: another thing. I can't find how to list all different tags.

KainXVIII wrote:

VileRancour wrote:

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 their ugly watermarks on top.

The only issue is that most browsers won't display animated GIFs at the correct speed if the framerate is higher than 50fps or so, which means you'd have to either slow them down or remove frames.

Even ye old shareware Paint Shop Pro 5's Animation Shop 1 can open DOSBox ZMBV avis for a giffing, with optional frame import skipping

VileRancour wrote:

KainXVIII wrote:

VileRancour wrote:

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 their ugly watermarks on top.

The only issue is that most browsers won't display animated GIFs at the correct speed if the framerate is higher than 50fps or so, which means you'd have to either slow them down or remove frames.

Photoshop is a "little" overkill for me 😵 I use some Easy GIF Animator but it can't process big video files so i prefer creating gifs from images..

I just capture DOS video in DosBox with ctr+alt+f5 and use ffmpeg to convert. Here is a batch file that produces the best quality and smallest size GIF, you must use the latest build of FFMPEG:

Usage: Avi2gif.bat "filename" starttime duration
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ffmpeg -ss %2 -t %3 -i %1 -vf "fps=20,scale=-1👎flags=lanczos,palettegen" -y palette.png
ffmpeg -ss %2 -t %3 -i %1 -i palette.png -lavfi "fps=20,scale=-1👎flags=lanczos [x]; [x][1:v] paletteuse" -y "%~n1.gif"
del palette.png
rem To do unscaled extraction use -1:-1 for scale
rem to Set start and finish seconds use -ss [start sec] -t [number of secs] before the -i parameter

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I just capture DOS video in DosBox with ctr+alt+f5 and use ffmpeg to convert. Here is a batch file that produces the best qualit […]
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I just capture DOS video in DosBox with ctr+alt+f5 and use ffmpeg to convert. Here is a batch file that produces the best quality and smallest size GIF, you must use the latest build of FFMPEG:

Usage: Avi2gif.bat "filename" starttime duration
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ffmpeg -ss %2 -t %3 -i %1 -vf "fps=20,scale=-1👎flags=lanczos,palettegen" -y palette.png
ffmpeg -ss %2 -t %3 -i %1 -i palette.png -lavfi "fps=20,scale=-1👎flags=lanczos [x]; [x][1:v] paletteuse" -y "%~n1.gif"
del palette.png
rem To do unscaled extraction use -1:-1 for scale
rem to Set start and finish seconds use -ss [start sec] -t [number of secs] before the -i parameter

Thanks!