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01-21-2016, 03:19 PM

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Adding Ultima Underworld to the list. Never was able to finish it. This time I'm going to cheat with a hex editor.

And also play with MT-32 emulation.

Enorbet: I stand corrected.

I finished UW but UW2 not.

01-22-2016, 06:12 AM	#47
wpeckham LQ Guru Registered: Apr 2010 Location: Continental USA Distribution: Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, DSL, Puppy, CentOS, Knoppix, Mint-DE, Sparky, VSIDO, tinycore, Q4OS,Manjaro Posts: 5,631 Rep:	Just had a thought... Is anyone writing NEW Dos games? I am thinking that some of the early DOS games might be the easiest to port to Android (along with the other way, porting from Android to DOS) as long as they do not depend on the networking.

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I am thinking that some of the early DOS games might be the easiest to port to Android (along with the other way, porting from Android to DOS) as long as they do not depend on the networking.

I don't think they'd be easy to port at all, unless you're using DosBox to do the port. Surely you know what DOS game programming is like?

The Simon the Sorcerer games did get Android ports though.

01-24-2016, 02:06 PM	#49
rokytnji LQ Veteran Registered: Mar 2008 Location: Waaaaay out West Texas Distribution: antiX 23, MX 23 Posts: 7,112 Blog Entries: 21 Rep:	Code: harry@biker:~ $ cd Games harry@biker:~/Games $ ls armymen Commander Keen 7 Commander-keen-1-marooned-on-mars compressed Commander-keen-2-the-earth-explodes doom Commander-keen-3-keen-must-die IM2 Commander-keen-4-secret-of-the-oracle Keen8 Commander_Keen_5_The_Armageddon_Machine Keen 9 - Battle of the Brains Commander_Keen_6-Aliens_Ate_My_Baby_Sitter http://i.imgur.com/SoX2Qcy.jpg http://www.myabandonware.com/media/f...r_dos_04ui.pdf For GOG Empire Earth The Temple of Elemental Evil another DOS is Xenophage: Alien BloodSport Elder Scrolls Arena Deluxe Edition Last edited by rokytnji; 01-24-2016 at 08:57 PM.

01-25-2016, 11:04 AM	#50
sag47 Senior Member Registered: Sep 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Distribution: Ubuntu, PopOS, Raspbian Posts: 1,899 Blog Entries: 36 Rep:	Dugan, Do you have a WIP branch of your code changes published somewhere?

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Dugan,
Do you have a WIP branch of your code changes published somewhere?

PM sent.

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01-25-2016, 03:33 PM

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Favorite DOS games?

MS Flight Simulator 3 & 4. The former on the old IBM XT with 640KB RAM. The stuttering animation didn't allow much more than straight and level flight, let alone abrupt maneuvers. However, it was cool.

01-28-2016, 06:21 PM	#53
dugan LQ Guru Registered: Nov 2003 Location: Canada Distribution: distro hopper Posts: 11,226 Original Poster Rep:	Ultima VII was way too difficult for me at the time, but how can you not want to try again when there are resources like this available? http://www.kxmode.com/U7map/ Last edited by dugan; 01-28-2016 at 06:27 PM.

01-28-2016, 10:13 PM	#54
Myk267 Member Registered: Apr 2012 Location: California Posts: 422 Blog Entries: 16 Rep:	Anyone remember Vette? I'm not really into simulation games, but that one was kind of interesting at the time.

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Some of those DOS games can also be played online, maybe someone is interested.

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{...}I'm working on some improvements to DosBox (yes, really) and I'm far ahead enough{...}

Don't get me wrong but if it is not secret when are you planning to publish results?

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Some of those DOS games can also be played online, maybe someone is interested.

Don't get me wrong but if it is not secret when are you planning to publish results?

I hope to be able to announce a beta test (in this thread!) mid Feb.

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I hope to be able to announce a beta test (in this thread!) mid Feb.

Congratulations can't wait to check it out

02-09-2016, 02:56 AM	#58
dugan LQ Guru Registered: Nov 2003 Location: Canada Distribution: distro hopper Posts: 11,226 Original Poster Rep:	Here's a preview. The floppy, EGA version of LOOM as it usually is. Notice the dithering: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8z16s7rxlv...ered.png?raw=1 The floppy, EGA version of LOOM using the jinc2-sharper shader, which you'll be able to use. Notice how the dithering is now gone: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0qnbuv43b4...rper.png?raw=1 Both are full-screen screenshots taken on my MacBook. That's why they're so large (2560x1600). If you watch GDCVault's LOOM Postmortem, it should become clear that the reason EGA (and Genesis and Mega Drive) game artists used dithering is because the monitors (and TVs) of the day displayed dithering as solid colors. Therefore, I'd actually consider a game to be incorrectly emulated if you see dithering as dithering. Last edited by dugan; 02-09-2016 at 01:16 PM.

02-20-2016, 07:33 PM	#59
dugan LQ Guru Registered: Nov 2003 Location: Canada Distribution: distro hopper Posts: 11,226 Original Poster Rep:	It's ready. The repository is here: https://github.com/duganchen/dosbox The documentation for what's new and different (and how to take advantage of it) is here: https://github.com/duganchen/dosbox/...NHANCEMENTS.md I've tested in on Linux and OS X. Windows support and prebuilt binary packages will come later.

02-21-2016, 02:28 PM	#60
patrick295767 Member Registered: Feb 2006 Distribution: FreeBSD, Linux, Slackware, LFS, Gparted Posts: 664 Rep:	Best games: 1) Dungeon Master and Captive 2) UW1 and 2 3) Eye of beholder I, II, III

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