DOS ain't dead - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test

DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test (Announce)

posted by Arjay, 12.12.2009, 12:42

> Even PCX has some wimpy optional compression, no?
Correct it's RLE. Very easy to implement. Indeed I remember there was/is a PCX viewer in asm for 320x200 which compiles to 128 bytes which interestingly means you can just replace the useless header with the viewer. Very cool ;)

> I think most tools don't
> support the compressed variants, that's why.
Yeah just quickly looked at my old BMP code. Looks to me like (at least in the past) that although BMP structure itself had to entries "CompressionType + CompressedImageSize" that things like the BMP/DIB clipboard format didn't !

> (I guess you know that JPEG is a pain!!!)
Yup hence I never wrote a viewer myself/well also moved onto other things.

> The only PNG viewers for DOS (off the top of my head) are Display, QV/PNG,
> and Pictview. Nothing for < 386, though (probably moot but still ...
Useful background info thanks.

> I can't say I don't dream of writing / porting bzip2 [-2 at least], .png
> viewer, etc).
Well there is still time as I guess we are all still relatively young ! :)

> Actually, I think we were both naive. That Firefox on HX is apparently
> just an April Fools joke. Ironic,
Doh! That'll teach me to not read through it further.

> though, since it's plausible in theory (barely)!
Indeed...

> You can definitely read .PDFs in DOS, just not easily (and I never
Indeed hence not worth including it when .TXT / .HTML easier to view. Good call re the document convert above btw.

> think the text file from GALCON 7.5 seems good enough!!
Yeah totally agree .TXT is best. Has to also have the .TXT extension as sadly as you know we lost the .DOC one a long time ago... !!!

> It's almost funny how all you guys (you, Ninho, Jason) have to be careful
> not to annoy the wives with your computer projects, heh.
It's a fine balance.... speaking of which ttfn !!!

> I guess I'll get there one of these days. ;-)
Yeah life soon catches up with you.

Post reply

Complete thread:

DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 21.09.2009, 22:21 (Announce)
- DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 21.09.2009, 23:16
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 21.09.2009, 23:48
    - GMail doesn't like zips either, rename too ! - Ninho, 08.12.2009, 23:53
      - GMail doesn't like zips either, rename too ! - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 04:35
- DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 09.10.2009, 17:51
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 09.10.2009, 22:56
    - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 10.10.2009, 08:28
      - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 10.10.2009, 10:47
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 22.10.2009, 05:16
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 22.10.2009, 15:25
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - rr, 22.10.2009, 18:39
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - rr, 22.10.2009, 18:47
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 08.12.2009, 02:10
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 09.12.2009, 22:04
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - DOS386, 11.12.2009, 01:45
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 04:33
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 11.12.2009, 07:33
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 10:35
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - rr, 13.12.2009, 18:22
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 14.12.2009, 02:24
- DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 11:11
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 13:59
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - DOS386, 11.12.2009, 14:28
    - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - ecm, 11.12.2009, 14:36
      - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - DOS386, 11.12.2009, 14:38
      - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 14:56
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - ecm, 11.12.2009, 15:40
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 16:02
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - ecm, 11.12.2009, 16:20
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test ( off topic) - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 17:27
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test ( off topic) - ecm, 11.12.2009, 19:01
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test ( off topic) - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 23:12
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 11.12.2009, 19:30
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 23:40
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - DOS386, 12.12.2009, 10:04
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 12.12.2009, 11:23
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - ecm, 12.12.2009, 11:38
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 12.12.2009, 12:11
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 12.12.2009, 12:42
        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 12.12.2009, 13:40
        DOS PNG support - Arjay, 12.12.2009, 15:23
        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 13.12.2009, 10:20
        DOS PNG support - rr, 12.12.2009, 22:11
        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 19.12.2009, 14:40
        DOS PNG support - rr, 19.12.2009, 23:02
        DOS PNG support -- QPV, QPNG - Rugxulo, 20.12.2009, 00:09
        DOS PNG support - DOS386, 20.12.2009, 07:32
    - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 15:31
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 16:39
    - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 17:51
      - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 17:56
      - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 11.12.2009, 22:38
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 11.12.2009, 23:54
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 12.12.2009, 00:07
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 12.12.2009, 02:12
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Arjay, 12.12.2009, 02:59
        DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - sinclaj1, 12.12.2009, 17:00
- DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - deleted user, 13.09.2012, 15:14
  - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 test - Rugxulo, 13.09.2012, 17:51
    - DOS Game - Galactic Conquest v9.00 Build 55 - GOLD - Arjay, 13.09.2012, 20:48