Re: Alpha Testers for Strategy Wargame?

From: therelic@my-deja.com

Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

In article <390e95c0.6329281@news.dial.pipex.com>,
  nospam@here.please (Evilb) wrote:
> Looks like quite alot of work has gone into this game.
> A couple of things. Judging from the screen shots, is this a Dos based
> game ?

Dos but dpmi so it should run under windows without too many
problems.  Might need to set a PIF for the dpmi setting if cswdpmi isn't
available.

> The memory problem you mention at the start of the help file can be
> avoided in two ways, either with a memory manager, such as DOS4GW, or
> by compiling the application as a 32bit console app. This does mean it
> will only run under DOS 7.22, but it will then get access to the
> windows paging system.

The memory problem is because I stuff the whole map into memory and
a very large game can have a huge map.  I figure an avg game will
probably have 10-20 players, but I made sure that big tournament style
games can be done if you want.  The problem was that with small games
all the disk IO was making the hosting very slow so I read the whole map
file into memory and that increased the speed incredibly.

>
> Graphics for dos can be notoriously difficult to work, on a variety of
> different graphics cards. Years ago I wrote a windowing menu system
> for some dos workstations, and on most, it worked fine, whilst on
> others, just a black screen.

All BMPs and basic privitive draws.  I want to be able to easily
port to linux and not specifically be restricted to win OS.

>
> Which graphics libraries are you using ? VESA ?
>
     It is currently in FPC so I used the svga setting that were in it.

The most important thing I need right now is some test people to
help find all the bugs in the game, but I am not sure where I can find
any people who can put up with problems that will appear and list
exactly what happens and what was supposed to happen.

Once I get it working I plan to translate to djgpp and allegro
which will also allow good dos, win and linux versions to be made easily
but I don't want to try to convert bad pascal code to bad C code :)

Ken.
     therelic@netzero.net

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References

Alpha Testers for Strategy Wargame?
therelic@my-deja.com
Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Alpha Testers for Strategy Wargame?
nospam@here.please (Evilb)
Tue, 02 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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Alpha Testers for Strategy Wargame?
therelic@my-deja.com
Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Alpha Testers for Strategy Wargame?
nospam@here.please (Evilb)
Tue, 02 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000