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

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 12.12.2009, 12:11

> > Poor compression wins :clap:
> It still amazes me that RLE support within BMP's has never been used as
> much as it should have been. Not that I'm supporting the use of BMP's
> mind !!!
Even PCX has some wimpy optional compression, no? I think most tools don't support the compressed variants, that's why. (I guess you know that JPEG is a pain!!!)

> > > again similar comments re target audience... .PNG came about after
> > DOS.... so
> > what is the problem ???
> Well I was thinking of DOS viewer support. e.g. QV v2.58 doesn't support
> PNG whereas PV v2.78 does support PNG. I can't remember when I lasted
> looked at real old stuff like CSHOW etc but last time I checked that
> didn't support PNG!
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 ... I can't say I don't dream of writing / porting bzip2 [-2 at least], .png viewer, etc).

> I was not aware of attempts to get Firefox to under HX until I read your
> own posting about it, but clearly not even that looks like an option for
> viewing PNG under DOS right now.... and lets not add FF to the ZIP just to
> view a couple of PNG's. Indeed I have been following the HX threads with
> interest for sometime.
Actually, I think we were both naive. That Firefox on HX is apparently just an April Fools joke. Ironic, though, since it's plausible in theory (barely)!

> > My audience for my releases are progressive DOSsers knowing what to do
> > with stuff like PNG, TAR, OGV, 7-ZIP, & Co :-)
> Ok, fine. Feel free to limit your audience :)
OGV -> search for the APEG thread
7-Zip -> 7za (Win32 binary w/ HX), DJGPP p7zip, my various 7zdec compiles

> > > The documentation is going to be a .pdf but
> > you can't read PDF's in DOS :confused:
> But your progressive. Can't you read it with Firefox along with PNG's
> ;-)
>
> > > I can throw a text copy in there too.
> > Much better.
> Totally agree. TXT copy and HTML copy is good. PDF not.
You can definitely read .PDFs in DOS, just not easily (and I never bothered), e.g. Ghostview, XPDF, Acroread (only old old .PDFs, but my Falcon 4.0 CD has it!). Nah, I wouldn't recommend it, but heck, I still think the text file from GALCON 7.5 seems good enough!!

> Keep up the good work Jason!
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. I guess I'll get there one of these days. ;-)

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