Re: Games that show 16 colors ONLY in Tandy / PCjr mode?

Posted on 2017-01-08, 19:39

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There seems to be a lot of fakelore about it, including the term "crash" itself (most of the contemporaneous press that I have read uses the term "shakeout" instead, referring to the fact that there were too many companies in the market that should not be there), and the utter nonsense that …

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Re: Games that show 16 colors ONLY in Tandy / PCjr mode?

Posted on 2017-01-08, 15:13

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By the way, Neville, I found this interesting in relation to the PCjr carts. Over at the Intellivision Lives! website they have a quick list of PCjr carts that were slated for development and release, but were all cancelled at various stages of completion. Never knew Mattel Electronics had such an …

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Re: Mmmm... CGA still lives in spirit via HTML5

Posted on 2017-01-06, 20:08

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It's cool and mysterious. I like twine games. They bring the adventure game genre to a newer, younger audience. Also it reminds me when I programmed an adventure game on my TI-80 calculator. Good times. I hope twine is easier to use though! :D Personally I found the Empathy Star at the beginning …

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Re: Mmmm... CGA still lives in spirit via HTML5

Posted on 2017-01-06, 19:44

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So I'm taking it this is like old depressed CGA game bosses who have lost their way? They have lost their purpose? Does this need to exist? Maybe the question is the answer. Ok. I need to step away now. 😀

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Mmmm... CGA still lives in spirit via HTML5

Posted on 2017-01-06, 19:35

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Found this amusing. New HTML5 "art" game released in case you missed it. https://sophiapark.itch.io/forgotten

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Re: [RESOLVED] star trek new worlds: runtime error

Posted on 2017-01-06, 17:11

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Wow. Missed this one. Most Star Trek PC games are abysmal, but this one, after watching a preview of it on Youtube, looks pretty damn cool. Thanks for the info.

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Re: Possible fix for Mobil 1 Rally Championship a.k.a. Rally Championship 2000 !!!

Posted on 2017-01-05, 18:17

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Well this is a nice find! This of course has the final patch, but also tons of modified cfg files, utilities, skins and sound add-ons for this game. The top three download categories look like they are blank, but they are not and all the downloads work. Just click the tiny black down arrow and the …

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Re: Dethkarz on Windows 7

Posted on 2017-01-05, 02:01

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There might be a bit of a misunderstanding here since my problem wasn't performance, it was resolution. Still though, nGlide did turn out to be the fix. When I forced high resolutions with zeckensack's Glide wrapper, I could only choose 640x480 since only that one, after upscaling, added up to …

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Re: Questions regarding "F-15 Strike Eagle III" CD version.

Posted on 2017-01-04, 20:46

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How did you narrow it down to that file? One way to do it would be to use a debug-enabled version of DOSBox: the debug window tracks which files a program is trying to access, making it relatively easy to spot when a program is trying to access a file that doesn't exist. Thanks for the info. The …

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Re: Questions regarding "F-15 Strike Eagle III" CD version.

Posted on 2017-01-04, 20:01

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It seems you just need to copy one file from the CD-ROM to the installation directory to get the Iraq '93 missions working: Assuming that the current directory is the installation directory and that the CD is mounted on D: COPY D:\F15\FS\DS.REL How did you narrow it down to that file? What is DS. …

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Re: Questions regarding "F-15 Strike Eagle III" CD version.

Posted on 2017-01-04, 18:17

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I am just talking from the top of my head, but many of the CD versions of early 90s games were just the floppy version with added FMV and audio content. Have you looked into seeing if the files in the patch might possibly work with the CD version? Manual file manipulation? I have done this in the …

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Re: Possible fix for Mobil 1 Rally Championship a.k.a. Rally Championship 2000 !!!

Posted on 2017-01-03, 22:42

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Since the final patch "PATCH6 5.30.0 (04.08.2000)" is getting difficult to find with all the dead links floating around the Interwebs I thought I would attach it here for good measure. Got a hankering to play again and realized I did not have the final patch file anymore and trying to find it was …

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Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2016-12-11, 19:58

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OmerMor wrote: Scali already wrote a blog post about this demo: https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/cgad … y-codeblasters/ Thanks for the info.

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Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2016-12-11, 19:23

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Not to get too off topic, but I found this CGA demo very impressive and was wondering what "mode" this is running in? It does not look like a composite demo, too clean for that. It doesn't look like the 160x100 "graphics" text mode, but maybe it is. Either way, if I had seen this back in the early …

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Re: Games that show 16 colors ONLY in Tandy / PCjr mode?

Posted on 2016-12-11, 18:36

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This seems appropriate for a 16 color Christmas. One of my favorite old Christmas demos (I'm sure some of you have this already) and it only works on a Tandy, so set your machine type to Tandy and run the bat file. It also catches us all up to their latest 1980s models! haha Hope you all have a …

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Re: Games that show 16 colors ONLY in Tandy / PCjr mode?

Posted on 2016-12-09, 05:56

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What's funny is that back in the day (mid '80s) when I first had a CGA computer, I didn't know that composite mode existed. Nor did I until I got this ICON demo on a BBS way back in the day on my shiny new ITT XTRA PC. Luckily this guy posted it on Youtube as I had forgotten about it completely. …

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Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2016-12-09, 05:39

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The game still seems to be in 640x200 composite mode, so all colors are entirely determined by the particular black and white pixel patterns that the game uses. There is little that the emulation can do about that --- if one modified the pixel clock delay to make that magenta look blue, everything …

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Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2016-12-09, 03:27

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Patch for PCjr composite support, tested with... The Seven Cities of Gold Just noticed where light blue should be, magenta has taken its place. Is this the emulation or the way the PCjr machine type behaves? Wondering if that can be corrected somehow? If you look at my previous post of the harbor …

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Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2016-12-09, 01:46

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NewRisingSun wrote: Patch for PCjr composite support, tested with... Wow! Nice! The PCjr sound is so much better in SCOG and now with composite enabled this is great! One difference I noticed is the PCjr machine mode composite has more color saturation. Thanks for the file! scog.jpg pcjr.jpg

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Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2016-12-07, 23:28

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Just curious. I finally got my bootable img of Seven Cities Of Gold (original 1980s version and not the Commemorative Editon from 1993) working in DOSBox SVN r4000 in composite mode and it looks and plays great. I was wondering, though, if anything came of trying to run composite games in the PCjr …

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