Ajare on 27/3/2005 at 20:44
Quote Posted by Assidragon
I have around 300+ 3.5" disks and around the same number 5.25" ones. :) Too bad pretty none of works them now - those disks literally went useless on the shelf. :tsktsk: One thing I always disliked about floppies.
I bought a replacement mouse (previous one suffered an 'accident') a couple days ago, and the drivers came on a floppy! There are three computers in my house, and none of them have a floppy drive. So I had to go all the way to a friend's house, and copy them onto a CD. What is this, 2004?
descenterace on 27/3/2005 at 22:53
*looks at stack of spare floppy disk drives*
My Mum doesn't trust hard disks with her data. She stores (actually, stored) all her data on a floppy disk.
Anyone like to guess what happened to the floppy disk?
It stopped working, as such crap pieces of technology are wont to do, and I had to recover all her data. NOW she trusts the hard disk.
But yeah, because of that I ensure that my main system always has a floppy drive. I never know when I'll need it. And because those damn drives go wrong so easily, I have about half a dozen spare ones that I ripped out of computers that had no further use for them.
Anyone want to buy three third-hand floppy drives? Only been used four times...
William Dojinn on 27/3/2005 at 23:37
Why do you think I didn't switch to a mac? Since they ditched floppies there's no real way of stowing stuff without a CD burner. Then again I do suppose there is the option of using a USB floppy drive, meh not really feelin it if you ask me.
First computer i had was an off brand 486 laptop with Word Perfict 5.1, where in the world is carmen santiago, galaxia, and zork.
It was pitheticly old even when i first had it, but i loved the thing. Loved the 560 that was bestowed on me my senior year. Pity i had to give that one back.
Now I need system shock since i've found the thing again sitting on ebay. I garentee you it WILL be mine.
ToxicFrog on 28/3/2005 at 04:45
Somewhere I've got a more general program for unpacking and repacking any of the resfiles, but I don't remember if it's still online - and it doesn't come with capability for converting the textures/sounds/etc, only unpacking the.
(And while we're talking about taking apart SS1, there's also (
http://www.funkyhorror.net/toxicfrog/shockmap/shockmap.html) shockmap, an exercise in browser-crushing table generation...)
descenterace on 28/3/2005 at 12:10
'Browser-crushing' is right! Took nearly two seconds for Firefox to display each map. Having looked at the HTML source I'm not surprised.
There has to be a more efficient way of doing it. A single image with hotspots, perhaps?
Enchantermon on 28/3/2005 at 12:27
Quote Posted by William Dojinn
where in the world is carmen santiago.....and zork.
:thumb:
We have a DOS computer packed in a box in the room across the hall. It used to be set up, but when we moved some 800+ miles, we obviously had to take it down, and haven't found a place to set it up yet. Not that it was used for anything more than computer games. Monster Bash, anyone? :ebil:
Enchantermon
Nupraptor on 28/3/2005 at 12:40
It's simply too slow, even when you upclock the CPU and crank the frameskip. Hopefully, future versions of DOSBox will have much better support for this.
William Dojinn on 28/3/2005 at 13:08
Out of curiosity how well does SS1 do with freedos/dr dos?
ToxicFrog on 28/3/2005 at 14:09
Quote Posted by descenterace
'Browser-crushing' is right! Took nearly two seconds for Firefox to display each map. Having looked at the HTML source I'm not surprised.
There has to be a more efficient way of doing it. A single image with hotspots, perhaps?
That would work much better (might be larger, but would render much faster), but back when I wrote this I didn't grok SDL (which I could have used to create the map on an SDL_surface and then write the whole thing to image), and it was faster to use HTML tables than to bludgeon libpng into submission.
In order to properly generate the SS1-Crossfire maps, though, I'm going to have to upgrade shockmap considerably, and at that point I'll probably stick an SDL interface and save-to-image command on it and release it as 2.0.
ZylonBane on 28/3/2005 at 15:06
It also doesn't display correctly under IE6. Gives a nice venetian-blinds effect.
