1. Games in 257....
Hy,
I've searched for the best graphics mode in EU and I think it's 257.
I've been looking in and around Euphoria the WWW-Pages and
I've found many games, But almost every game of them works in
mode 18 or 19, never 257.
I asked myself WHY????
Because 257 cannot display Virtual Screens?
I can understand that that's important for Transparancy and
to walk thru all those pages directly instead of displaying one
by one like in C&C.
I can understand the 2nd reason a little bit.
Because your game looks BIG, but mode 257 is 640x480, not 320x200.
I cannot understand the transparancy tricks of it,
the codes are so complicated, and you can make it much easier.
Here is a code I use and it is made/created by me.
-- Begin of SCREEN.E --
global sequence colors1,colors2,spoint1,spoint2
sequence temp
global integer transcol
spoint1={0,0}
spoint2={0,0}
colors1={}
colors2={}
transcol=0
temp={0,0}
global procedure convert()
temp[1]=spoint2[1]-spoint1[1]
temp[2]=spoint2[2]-spoint1[2]
for xx=1 to length(colors2) do
for yy=1 to length(colors2[xx]) do
colors2[xx][yy]=colors2[xx][yy]
if colors2[xx][yy]=transcol then
colors2[xx][yy]=colors1[temp[2]+xx][temp[1]+yy]
end if
end for
end for
end procedure
global procedure convert_2()
for xx=1 to length(colors2) do
for yy=1 to length(colors2[xx]) do
if colors2[xx][yy]=transcol then
else
colors1[xx+spoint2[2]][yy+spoint2[1]]=colors2[xx][yy]
end if
end for
end for
end procedure
-- End of SCREEN.E --
(SPoint stands for Starting point of picture.)
(Colors stands for the image.)
Colors1=Big image(background).
Colors2=Small image(foreground).
With Covert() you can make Colors2 transparant, but
every time you change the SPoint you have to call CONVERT() again.
(But it's very quick)
With Convert_2() you can make Colors2 transparant, but it stays
on Colors1.
What do you think about this ?
Do you know any games made in EU and that are in 257 ?
Bye!
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2. Re: Games in 257....
Pat,
>I've found many games, But almost every game of them works in
>mode 18 or 19, never 257.
>I asked myself WHY????
I agree mode 257 is cool and I plan on making future games in this mode.
However, neither my home or work computer can support this mode well (It
messes up the screen). I need to find vesa drivers or something to fix
this.
>Because 257 cannot display Virtual Screens?
It can't? Well, you can do variable virtual screens but they're a little
slow
Sincerely,
Lewis Townsend
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3. Re: Games in 257....
my monitor supports mode 257. Although text is too small to read in 257,
so i use 256. Just as good. 640x400 resolution, 256 colors. Although I
can't use mode 263 because my monitor is i guess a cross between VGA and
SVGA. Some guy on the list said that mode 256 is SVGA. It's a real old
monitor that came from a real old PS/1 model computer that is now sitting
on a desktop attatched to a Multimedia D141 model Packard Bell computer.
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4. Re: Games in 257....
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Matt Z Nunyabidness wrote:
> my monitor supports mode 257. Although text is too small to read in 257,
> so i use 256. Just as good. 640x400 resolution, 256 colors. Although I
> can't use mode 263 because my monitor is i guess a cross between VGA and
> SVGA. Some guy on the list said that mode 256 is SVGA. It's a real old
> monitor that came from a real old PS/1 model computer that is now sitting
> on a desktop attatched to a Multimedia D141 model Packard Bell computer.
Hmm. My monitor has "PS/1" emblazoned(sp?) on the front of it.
I can use it in any graphics mode that my 1Mb Cirrus Logic 543x can put
out. The only time/place it doesn't work is under DOS (4.xx-7.xx) when I
haven't loaded the set-refresh-rate drivers (and they came with the
graphics card)...
If you've got a Cirrus Card, you have the programs CLMODE.EXE and
WINMODE.EXE (for Win3.xx), and when my monitor cacked at 1024x768x256
under '95, all I had to do was load them in, using my Win3.xx settings.
(43Hz Interlaced).
Incidentally, Matt, welcome to the world of paragraphs! :)
Carl
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5. Re: Games in 257....
>My monitor has "PS/1" emblazoned(sp?) on the front of it.
Mine too
>If you've got a Cirrus Card
nope.
>and when my monitor cacked at 1024x768x256
my monitor acts weird at 800x600x16
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