Hi, On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:06 PM, David Griffith <dgri...@cs.csubak.edu> wrote: > > Last December I posted about re-porting Frotz to DOS. I suceeded in > creating DOS Frotz 2.43.
Good to know! Any particular games or demos you tested with it (or intend to test)? > My next task is to get it to support Blorb and > through that sound samples and still graphics. Any more of the Blorb spec > is likely too much for DOS. While I'm very very vaguely familiar with the existence of Frotz, I'm not familiar with Blorb. What exactly is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blorb So it's a packaging format for interactive fiction games? Sorta like .ZIP or maybe .WAD? Seems to be more Glulx-oriented than Z-machine??? > My problem is that I can't seem to figure out > how to make the Blorb code work in 16-bit mode. Would someone please take > a look at it and help me out? > > The repository is https://github.com/DavidGriffith/frotz. " Formats supported in Blorb files * Images: PNG and JPEG * Sound: AIFF, Ogg Vorbis * Music: MOD " Hmmm, that sounds tough. AIFF sounds very obscure, others are just fairly complex. While I'm sure there are several .MOD players for 16-bit (e.g. TinyPlay), I don't know of a single .PNG viewer for 16-bit cpus, which has always been a pet peeve of mine (esp. since I know of no good reason a simple one couldn't work, ZLIB supports 16-bit). Though I'm not much on graphics (or anything, really). IJG's libJPEG probably assumes 32-bit ints these days, ugh. Ogg Vorbis? Probably the same bad assumptions (but did you ever look up Tremor??). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremor_(software) What games (or apps or whatever) specifically are you trying to support? Or only just in general? P.S. Just in case anyone is curious, it seems you are using Turbo C (e.g. makefile.tc) for development. So that's good to know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
