First post, by MrFlibble
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This is a dedicated fork of gerwin's MBF 2.04 maintenance release that runs Harmony Compatible in DOS out of the box. To play, you only need the HarmonyC.wad file in the same folder.
Main features:
- high resolution (640x480) support
- restored blue-coloured HUD font from the original release of Harmony
- improved OPL music playback thanks to ludicrous_peridot's updates to Allegro code, and DMXOPL
Downloads:
- binary release (v1.00): muse100.zip
- source code (includes Allegro library code ): muse100s.7z
This port is based on gerwin's MBF 2.04, but uses ludicrous_peridot's Allegro library modifications to greatly improve OPL3 music quality. The game can now play secondary MIDI instruments, but only when the tracks are in the MUS format. To further improve OPL music quality, this version auto-loads DMXOPL v1.11 at startup instead of the built-in GENMIDI lump that comes from Freedoom.
I have no real hardware to test this on, so I'd appreciate it if anyone gave it a spin on something that can do OPL music.
The other changes are mostly cosmetic, I have restored the original blue font for HUD messages and menus from the 2009 release, and added proper lumps for MBF extended menus:
I also fixed the colours on the minimized MBF HUD (Harmony uses a custom palette with a completely different order of colour ranges, so I had to "rewire" them to display the intended colours):
A selection of in-game screenshots can be found here.