Notices by JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)

@dosnostalgic an old human head colleague i lost track of worked on *another* one of those type games before coming to HH: https://www.mobygames.com/game/22417/the-war-in-heaven

one my favorite game code tricks: Quake (1996) defined light styles with a simple string of alphabetic characters, with A as the brightest light value and Z as the darkest.
so style 5, "gentle pulse", is expressed as "jklmnopqrstuvwxyzyxwvutsrqponmlkj" while style 10, "fluorescent flicker", is "mmamammmmammamamaaamammma".
https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/qw-qc/world.qc#L329

@dosnostalgic got curious about Quake: 96x60 was the smallest i could make it

@dosnostalgic Sorry things are tough right now, hope they pick up soon.
I've been jumping around to different VGA DOS games and gawking at their color palettes for a WIP project: https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/112979031344389932

@mcc similarly, i don't think i've seen a single second of an AVGN video that wasn't being quoted in some other video like this. i didn't even make it past the title - "angry video game nerd? yeah, no. i'm good."

@mcc yeah it's just pure performative rage as entertainment and on some subconscious level i could tell even then, many years before gamergate and reactionary youtubers, that this was headed somewhere bad

@dosnostalgic always interesting to see where the mac system font, Chicago, ends up

@dosnostalgic i remember those... it was so cool just to be able to play stuff that vdmsound or moslo didn't work well for

@dosnostalgic had never heard of this, really nice looking artwork!

@dosnostalgic early january 94, a kid came to school with it on 3.5" floppies. playing it on my 386 40MHz at home i had to put it into Low Detail mode, and there was some glitch in 1.0 or 1.1 that made the sfx especially ragged and evil-sounding.
so, first encounter was not ideal. but obviously it still completely altered the course of my life.

@dosnostalgic they probably used photoshop to create a custom palette of the available golf tee colors, then converted the photo to that palette with floyd-steinberg dither at the desired size to have a guide to work from.

@dosnostalgic iirc i repurposed this cvar for my Quake + NIN Ghosts I-IV mod: https://jp.itch.io/quake-ghosts (for checking if the "no monsters" functionality is enabled)

@dosnostalgic info on this tool, which I'd never heard of, plus a download: https://valvedev.info/tools/virtus-deathmatch-maker/
sick box art though!

@torproject web3/crypto is an extremely untrusted space for very thoroughly proven reasons, and you are dealing massive damage to public trust in your project by associating with it.

@dosnostalgic 🤬 i was afraid of that. i looked through the source to see where it might've been defined and couldn't find it, left with more questions than answers.

@dosnostalgic do you have an existing baseq3/q3config_server.cfg? that has a bunch of "seta" commands so you could set sv_maxclients there. but that file might be specific to some or other source port, all of which have touched my ~/.q3a dir over the years.

@dosnostalgic it's been a long time since i ran a server but would simply adding "sv_maxclients 16" to an autoexec.cfg in your baseq3 dir work?

@dosnostalgic lovely visuals, i have pretty fond memories of this despite how frustrating and fussy it was to play... wonder how much the remake is gonna improve on that

@dosnostalgic oh hm, i was only barely aware of VGM. this MI2 rip does indeed appear to be a good one, i wonder how it was done? (ie recording from original hardware, DOSbox or ScummVM (in which case how did they get clean recordings of the beginnings and ends of iMUSE tracks that blend together, etc?
https://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/monkey-island-2-lechuck-s-revenge-ibm-pc-at#014-swamp-with-international-house-of-mojo

Added some detail to a 20 year old bug report that probably like two other people on the planet care about: https://github.com/adplug/adplug/issues/12
Posting here on the very remote chance that anyone reading this has worked with DOS FM synth music formats and/or the ScummVM Adlib sound code.