Re: The easiest way to create a custom VGA palette

Posted on 2020-07-14, 15:49

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by Gagster

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Thanks, I'm not entirely satisfied myself with my VGA tilemaps, that's why I plan to add more colors from the VGA color bank to get the red- and turquoise colors I'm missing (some of the levels in Keen 6 needs more color to get rid of the dithering on my tilemaps, and I'm not happy with some of the …

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Re: The easiest way to create a custom VGA palette

Posted on 2020-07-14, 14:35

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by Gagster

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Thanks for the detailed explanation. Aseprite is able to use any png file as a color palette file, so then I can make a color palette file as a png file, convert it to a gif file to make sure it got the right values for the color bank of VGA and maybe reconvert it back to png again. I understand …

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Re: The easiest way to create a custom VGA palette

Posted on 2020-07-14, 14:16

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So what I gathered of info are; convert a customized color palette from a 24 bit image to an 18 bit image (somehow), and I get values in my palette that are compatible with the color bank of the VGA palette? Where's my upper limit of colors in the 256 color palette then; 250 colors or something like …

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Re: The easiest way to create a custom VGA palette

Posted on 2020-07-14, 13:41

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by Gagster

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I can chose whichever palette I would like to chose, but I have to include the 16 EGA colors in my custom VGA palette as the first 16 colors. I would like to create a 256 color palette for authenticity sake (in case of someone would like to use my edited tilemaps in a source port of Commander Keen …

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The easiest way to create a custom VGA palette

Posted on 2020-07-14, 13:24

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I have been using a program called Aseprite that's on Steam lately to add colors to the Commander Keen 4-6 games running in the source port Commander Genius, by editing extracted tilemaps from those games. While adding more colors to the 16 color tilemaps, I've chosen the VGA 13h palette in Aseprite …

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Issues with later dgVoodoo2 releases in Carmageddon 2 & Ignition

Posted on 2019-11-24, 17:52

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by Gagster

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Both Carmageddon 2 and Ignition are as known compatible with the Glide API (Carmageddon 2 also has Direct3D support, but in my experience it doesn't run as well with dgVoodoo2), thereby they are excellent candidates to dgVoodoo2 and its Glide wrapper. Using version 2.55.4 of dgVoodoo2 makes the …

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Re: Lurid Land - this game is not featured in the DOSBox Compatibility tracker

Posted on 2019-11-20, 03:34

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by Gagster

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Aah, my bad then. Now I've added Lurid Land as an entry in the DOSBox.com Compatibility tracker 😀

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Lurid Land - this game is not featured in the DOSBox Compatibility tracker

Posted on 2019-11-20, 00:54

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by Gagster

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Lurid Land is a rare PC game from 1997 made by Illusion Softworks, and having both a MS-DOS version and a Windows 9x one. The game reminds me of Lode Runner but with more of a focus on puzzles, and it runs in a resolution of 800x600. The Windows 9x version is quite buggy to get up and running in …

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Re: Getting the old Disney's Classic Video Games compilation to work (Aladdin, Lion King & Jungle Book)

Posted on 2019-11-08, 22:22

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The Snes has a cropped aspect ratio of 8:7 (was usually stretched to fit the old 4:3 TVs when connected to actual hardware), making say the Lion King a more "narrow" experience in terms of field of view (the Genesis version suffered a bit in terms of graphics and audio compared to the Snes version, …

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Re: Delta Force Land Warrior - resolution forcing breaks mouse sensitivity

Posted on 2019-11-08, 21:12

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Wow, thanks; that actually worked!!! This tool of yours sure is a powerful beast.

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Re: Getting the old Disney's Classic Video Games compilation to work (Aladdin, Lion King & Jungle Book)

Posted on 2019-11-07, 17:19

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The last time I successfully played those games I'm pretty certain my harddrives were running fat32 instead of NTFS, so that might be a clue. I was kind of bummed when the newly released Disney Classic games seems to use the Genesis Aladdin soundtrack, without enhancing the music instrument quality …

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Re: Getting Mission Kellogg's to run on modern PCs

Posted on 2019-11-07, 17:08

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I tried PCem a couple of years ago; it did at that time have issues when it came to audio delay while playing games within its virtual environment. There might have been more progress in recent years however. I also tried a very similar program called 86box, which began its life as a fork of PCem. …

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Re: Delta Force Land Warrior - resolution forcing breaks mouse sensitivity

Posted on 2019-11-07, 04:07

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I have now downloaded dgVoodoo 2.62.1, and I have finally gotten Delta Force Land Warrior to run in higher resolutions than 1024x768 without the mouse sensitivity issue. In the dgVooodoo Control Panel, enabling Capture Mouse fixes this game; at least in a resolution of 1280x960, fullscreen and …

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Lurid Land - the Windows 9x version is not working

Posted on 2019-11-07, 03:21

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Lurid Land is a game I discovered more than half-a-life ago while browsing a random demo CD; the game is more like a Lode Runner with more focus on puzzles (runs in 800x600). The game (luckily) got both a MS-DOS version and a Windows 9x version. Using DOSBox combined with Gravis Ultrasound settings …

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Getting Mission Kellogg's to run on modern PCs

Posted on 2019-11-07, 03:03

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by Gagster

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A long time ago I mail-ordered a game called Mission Kellogg's after filing a coupon in a Kellogg's cereal box. This is a game that reminds a bit of the old Donkey Kong Country games, made for Windows 9x and runs in a resolution of 640x480. I have struggled for many years trying to make this game …

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Getting the old Disney's Classic Video Games compilation to work (Aladdin, Lion King & Jungle Book)

Posted on 2019-11-07, 02:52

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I have this very old CD containing the rare Windows 9x versions of both Aladdin, Lion King and the Jungle Book games. I have struggled for many years getting them running on modern PCs; last time it worked was when I had a Windows 98 PC a long time ago. I recently got a little bit progress though. …

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Re: DOSBox soundcard "emulating" the sound-bank of the Amiga, has this been done before?

Posted on 2019-07-28, 02:45

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Thanks for all the reply's. For certain DOS games it would be quite tempting to just run the Amiga-soundtrack in the background via a dedicated MOD tracker; I suppose if I were to play The Settlers 1 on DOSBox, that would do the trick (since I believe that game only has 1 music theme). For games …

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DOSBox soundcard "emulating" the sound-bank of the Amiga, has this been done before?

Posted on 2019-07-27, 16:31

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by Gagster

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I grew up with an elder brother who owned an Amiga 1200, and one thing I did enjoy about the Amiga was its audio quality. A number of games that were both on the Amiga and on MS-DOS PCs did sound different music-wise; I guess the differences between the sound chip in the Amiga and the standard Sound …

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Re: Having the ability to use the desktop resolution, while the game uses its own resolution inside

Posted on 2019-06-01, 20:48

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by Gagster

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Thanks for the reply. I somehow didn't think this was implemented, I'm so happy that it works flawlessly after testing the settings out in dgVoodoo 2.55.4.1 😀

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Having the ability to use the desktop resolution, while the game uses its own resolution inside

Posted on 2019-06-01, 00:31

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by Gagster

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I didn't have any good topic-title for this post, but there is a feature that would be nice, although might not be either highly requested nor easy to implement. It could be beneficial to have the option to have dgVoodoo2 running in the desktop resolution of Windows, while the game that dgVoodoo2 is …

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