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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-07-07, 05:30

Heh, that FM track from C3D: the Descent was recycled from Commander Keen 4. I'm assuming that the mature rating is due to the moral scandal of referring to Bobby Prince's music as monontonous. ;) Having sci-fi elements in a fantasy setting wasn't such a novelty even back then - I refer thee to the …

Re: ‘Wolfenstein 3D’ Released as Free Web Browser Game

Posted on 2012-07-04, 00:22

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Wolfram looks kind of disappointing - each map seems 70% pitch black, need to use a flashlight, lighting is extremely distracting with all the contrast and the super shiny speculars... too bad because modern graphics enhancements could have been used to much better effect. Plus it has achievements . …

Re: Explorer: a graphic card?

Posted on 2012-07-02, 03:50

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the "HeadStart Explorer " was a PC/XT clone introduced in 1989: http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/explode/ http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2831952710074179466dMvYFt http://www.usedprice.com/items/computer/head-start/desktop/headstart-explorer-247869.html From what I could find online, it …

Re: the internet - then and now

Posted on 2012-06-29, 03:36

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True, dynamic page frameworks / content management systems are guilty as hell when it comes to unnecessary bloat. They don't HAVE to be, but they often are due to their general purpose nature. If you need something simple, you can always roll your own with php and a minimal set of includes, just to …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-29, 03:07

Murder on the Zinderneuf (another 1984 release) also uses mode 8 on PCjr and has the same ugly text problem, even in the original booter version. So I don't know if that by itself indicates a hack. Out of curiosity, how 'quick' can such a hack be? The colors in PSTOP2.EXE make too much sense, and …

Re: the internet - then and now

Posted on 2012-06-29, 01:22

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Yup... it's all about software bloat. Take the version of phpBB that vogons uses - it's 10 years old, and on today's machines it's fast as a shark. Compare to another message board that runs on 2012 software - you get 400kb of javascript to display 30kb of content, and a metric shit-ton of client- …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-28, 19:20

Tested two versions from Retrograde: the booter image behaves the same with pcjr as with cga (i.e. sets mode 6 if you pick display option #1); the EXE conversion sets mode 8 when machine=pcjr, and that's the one I checked first (and evidently Servo as well). Both will use mode 4 if you pick display …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-28, 15:55

Frogger II takes both CGA and PCjr into account to display reasonable colors on both (shots of each on Mobygames now). I found that if I took RGB captures in DOSBox that with machine set to PCjr the pixels are all shifted one to the left. Nice find - on top of that one-pixel shift, it also seems to …

Re: Change scaler on the fly?

Posted on 2012-06-23, 16:43

ykhwong's enhanced SVN build includes a pulldown menu interface to change things like that on the fly. However what you're describing sounds weird... scaler settings are retained across video mode changes - it should only drop back to 1x if the new mode is too large to for any scaler to fit ( …

Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

Posted on 2012-06-12, 16:00

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The problem with that is developers end up becoming too focused on the online component and the single player game suffers. It is going to reach a point where games won't even have a single player storyline anymore, just online fragging and once it gets to that point, how do games distinguish …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-06-11, 02:17

Lee Jackson wrote: ... after a session of listening to a lot of Ozzy, Pantera, and Judas Priest. Haha, sounds about right. Though it's far less blatant than what Bobby Prince did 😉 The "grab bag of ideas" explanation is pretty much what I thought it meant.

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-06-11, 00:25

@leilei: somehow I doubt that ADG is gonna go full brony.... my personal tolerance for all things plush starts and ends with THIS , but I wouldn't be too worried about a one-off joke. I've heard that finding a actual DOS version of fallout is neigh impossible... http://rlv.zcache.co.uk/i_see_what_ …

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