CGA games introscreens screensaver
A hommage to the 4-color CGA DOS games era (1982-1994).
* Shows random intro screens, waiting/loading screens, menu screens and deadscreens of CGA DOS games.
* Covers over 1000 DOS game titles
* Contains over 1200 CGA screenshots, all 640x400
* Shows game info (title, a.k.a title, release year, OS [dos/pc booter], game categories, publisher, developer)
* Enable/disable game categories (like action, adventure, racing...)
* Set game information (show above or below the screens, show no info)
* Set game info text color (5 types)
* Set duration of shown screen
* Autosave/restore
* Contains 15 music tracks (all taken from cracktro's released back in '89-'94)
* OS Support:
- Windows 98, 98SE & windows ME: use KernelEx v4.5.2 and run it under XP mode.
- Windows XP up to Windows 8.1.
v1.1:
* proper resizing + bit depth of all sprites. Project size reduced from 1.3Gb to 370Mb.
v1.2:
* Bug fix in sprite listing.
Ready for a trip down memory lane?
DOWNLOAD (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1890/download/) (52Mb)
Enjoy,
-arj0n
* It's covered on PCGAMER, read it here:
CGA Games Screensaver pays homage to the four-color era (http://www.pcgamer.com/cga-games-screensaver-pays-homage-to-the-four-color-era/).
Screenshot 1 - Menu:
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(http://dam1976.home.xs4all.nl/CGASAVER/1_menu1.png)
Screenshot 2 - Saver running with gameinfo above the screen:
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(http://dam1976.home.xs4all.nl/CGASAVER/2_Info_top1.png)
Screenshot 3 - Saver running with gameinfo below the screen:
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(http://dam1976.home.xs4all.nl/CGASAVER/3_Info_bottom1.png)
Screenshot 4 - Saver running with no gameinfo:
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(http://dam1976.home.xs4all.nl/CGASAVER/4_Info_none1.png)
Arj0n... I love you :)
Holy F**k!!!
<3
Well, this is fantastic, but all of the backgrounds have a filtered resampling rather than just nearest neighbour scaling. I think straight doubled pixels would not only look better, they'd probably compress better too :/. I love it though, I really do. I've had it going for most of the evening.
absolutely fascinating! + everything gurok said. Like... did I just download 1 GB of 4 color images? But worth every bit ;-D
Congrats on your screensaver finished! Gonna check it right now.
Thanx guy's :)
UPDATE: v1.1 released.
* proper resizing + bit depth of all sprites. Project size reduced from 1.3Gb to 370Mb. Download size: 52Mb.
(on demand of Gurok & Selmiak, thanx for pointing out Gurok)
See first for full info.
Quote from: AprilSkies on Sat 21/02/2015 10:39:54
Holy F**k!!!
<3
Holy S**t !!! <3
This is very nice Arj0n 8-) Bravo
Oh wow, this is great :) I'd love to have something like this running on my first generation iPad that's barely usable for anything anymore other than read ebooks.
Titanic effort, bravo! :-*
Thank you, Bici.
The data-mining for the shown game info was also a huge task to get properly done.
Well, I'm happy with the result.
this was posted on pcgamer, congrats! you can see it at http://www.pcgamer.com/cga-games-screensaver-pays-homage-to-the-four-color-era/
This is amazing btw, thanks for sharing, I was looking forward to this, well done, sir!
Wow, awesome PCGamer wrote about this ;-D
Thanx for sharing Catch22Alk3.
Thanx for the kind words, Duel. :)
v1.2: bug fix (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=51772.msg636507915#msg636507915).