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Reply 120 of 153, by sndwv

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Maybe I am spreading unnecessary confusion here. The Archive.org iso (I think it's not allowed to link to it here?), which installs with INSTRM.EXE, also has 'suspect' build files on the disc. BBMF.BAT for instance attempts to build movie files from non-existing .mpg files, from a non-existing F:\-drive. Could be sloppy / unused / leftover files, but this is what made me question whether or not it was a finished disc, and looking further into it I found posts of others doubting it as well.

Reply 121 of 153, by Hammer

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sndwv wrote on 2023-03-20, 21:51:

Maybe I am spreading unnecessary confusion here. The Archive.org iso (I think it's not allowed to link to it here?), which installs with INSTRM.EXE, also has 'suspect' build files on the disc. BBMF.BAT for instance attempts to build movie files from non-existing .mpg files, from a non-existing F:\-drive. Could be sloppy / unused / leftover files, but this is what made me question whether or not it was a finished disc, and looking further into it I found posts of others doubting it as well.

This is why people should not randomly speculate. That game came from a sealed retail boxed copy.

Reply 122 of 153, by sndwv

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Well, thanks for clearing things up. And I will now be on the lookout for a copy 😉

Reply 123 of 153, by Uka

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The game is not "unfinished", I'd say it is rather unpolished.
Nobody has questioned its existence - sndwv has only expressed some doubts as to whether it was released commercially. And as you can see, there are proofs that it was!
Still, it does look like they have left some source codes and other developers' messages on the disk.

Reply 124 of 153, by Hammer

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Uka wrote on 2023-03-21, 03:36:

The game is not "unfinished", I'd say it is rather unpolished.
Nobody has questioned its existence - sndwv has only expressed some doubts as to whether it was released commercially. And as you can see, there are proofs that it was!
Still, it does look like they have left some source codes and other developers' messages on the disk.

Now that that's all cleared up, can someone please get it working in Dosbox? 😉

Reply 125 of 153, by Uka

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Hammer wrote on 2023-03-21, 11:49:

Now that that's all cleared up, can someone please get it working in Dosbox? 😉

That's probably something only jrdennisoss can help with 😀
Hopefully DOSBox Staging people as well.

Reply 126 of 153, by envagyok

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Someone know list of compatible hardware, which work with this games?
Maybe these?:

Reply 127 of 153, by Uka

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envagyok, those do not look like ReelMagic/REALmagic cards!
You need only MPEG-cards by Sigma Designs with DOS drivers: "ReelMagic", "ReelMagic Lite", "REALmagic Maxima"...

Reply 128 of 153, by vetz

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Uka wrote on 2024-01-30, 10:34:

envagyok, those do not look like ReelMagic/REALmagic cards!
You need only MPEG-cards by Sigma Designs with DOS drivers: "ReelMagic", "ReelMagic Lite", "REALmagic Maxima"...

Yes, they don't. See here for productlist: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, supported games and drivers

3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
3D Acceleration Comparison Episodes

Reply 131 of 153, by Uka

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Sadly no new RM games has been found yet, but I have an update about "Entity"!

Uka wrote on 2021-05-08, 17:05:

'Entity' (#5) is a special case as the disk image is not official and the game requires modifications in order to work in MPEG mode.

It does require a patch, but I have finally bought the official edition!

It is dated 1996 - Loriciel did not exist then any more, but somehow both Maxell and "PC Collector" magazine (which re-published it in 1997) have got hold of the game. Maybe there was actually the Loriciel edition from 1994?

Reply 132 of 153, by exofreeze

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That is excellent news @Uka!

Reply 133 of 153, by siccoyote

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Just been playing my first reel magic game Flash Traffic. It looks a lot smoother than the regular version but it just bugs me that the mpeg is obviously being resized from 352x240 to 320x200 using nearest neighbour resulting it just dropping every 8 line or so resulting in a very blocky video look. I'm guessing this is how the original hardware worked? I just wish there was some way to make it look less janky, like play it back at 2x so 704x480, then resize it down to 320x200 using a antialiasing so diagonal lines and stuff looked smoother. Then layer the regular graphics on top.
I'm not the most knowledgeable about this so don't know if this is already do-able.

Reply 134 of 153, by thierry

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A magazine from Argentina with titles for Real Magic, I only found this and I don't know who took the photo

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Reply 135 of 153, by Myloch

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A lot of them are not even games, just plain movies (à la videoCD)

"Gamer & collector for passion, I firmly believe in the preservation and the diffusion of old/rare software, against all personal egoisms"

Reply 136 of 153, by Uka

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Indeed - there does not seem to be anything new in this picture. I only see six games, and all of them are available (except "Man Enough", which is still missing one of the three CDs).

Reply 137 of 153, by Hammer

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Or is it?

Reply 138 of 153, by Uka

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Hammer wrote on 2024-06-05, 04:59:

Or is it?

You mean "Man Enough"?
There was a box of it on eBay a few months ago, but I did not win it unfortunately.
Do you have it? 😀

Reply 139 of 153, by Hammer

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Uka wrote on 2024-06-05, 17:23:
You mean "Man Enough"? There was a box of it on eBay a few months ago, but I did not win it unfortunately. Do you have it? :) […]
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Hammer wrote on 2024-06-05, 04:59:

Or is it?

You mean "Man Enough"?
There was a box of it on eBay a few months ago, but I did not win it unfortunately.
Do you have it? 😀

I do....I'll image it at some point soon. 😀 In the meantime what is the status of getting this stuff to work in DOSBox?