"After The War" slave colour fixed, please test :)

[SyX]

Hi!

A lot of spanish games used the st palette values directly and as with Midnight Resistance that mean that you need to up the bright of your monitor to see something. I have added that feature to the Bored Seal "After The War" slave.

Wepl has advised me that i put the slave here, for the people can test and get feedback

For testing you only need to replace the slave with the attached and add to the icon the tooltype CUSTOM1=1 to get the bright colours (with 0, you will get the old boring st colours).

I hope that you like it and i'll try to fix other spanish games to make them more bearables

[Whitesnake]

I'll test it when I get home.

I'm not sure if you noticed, I had a similar problem with Sorcery+

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=64580

[SyX]

Thanks Whitesnake!!! I'll be glad of getting your feedback

Well, this is my first with WHDLoad, but Sorcery+ should be the same kind of ST-fix. I'll try to take a look during the next week

[dlfrsilver]

It works great i have tested it on winuae and my A1200

thanks Syx

[Bamiga2002]

The colors are brighter, nice

[SyX]

Thanks for the tests in the machine dlfrsilver and Bamiga2002!!!

Before to make the lha package, one question guys, should i always add a CUSTOM tooltype to select the bright palette or should i consider that using directly the ST palette is a bug and not giving option to see that "error" again?

[Bamiga2002]

Make custom1=1 to revert back to old dark palette

[Whitesnake]

Original



Palette Fix



It looks better in person.

[dlfrsilver]

indeed !!!!

[s2325]

I never noticed that "Snatcho's".

[SyX]

Thanks, after the great feedback i have applied the Bamiga2002 advice and now the fixed palette is showed by default and if you want to see the boring dark st palette, then you will need to add the tooltype CUSTOM1=1 (or another value is not 0).

I have put in the zone the final version that i have just sent to Wepl.

Nice photos and yes, in real machine looks much better, these are the captures in emulator, before :

And after :

[dlfrsilver]

can you see if the problem is the same with Satan and astro marine corps ?

BTW there is something which could be great, Satan and After The War Amiga Lack the atari ST graphic introductions would be good to see if they can be implemented on amiga

[SyX]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

can you see if the problem is the same with Satan and astro marine corps ?

And Aspar, Hammeboy, ... it's the same "bug", we are talking of Dinamic

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

BTW there is something which could be great, Satan and After The War Amiga Lack the atari ST graphic introductions would be good to see if they can be implemented on amiga

Well, of course it could be possible, it would need disk images from the st originals in a not very strange format.

I don't remember well those extras, in "ATW" was a picture before to start the levels and in Satan a few pictures with music before the select level screen. Nothing world shaking...

Although i don't know if this is something appropriate for a WHDLoad slave.

[Retroplay]

Which version of lha do I need to extract it with ?



[edit]
lha 2.2 (freeware) also fails to extract it.

WinRAR extracted it, but I'm a bit iffy about extracting Amiga archives in a Windows environment.

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by Lionheart

And Aspar, Hammeboy, ... it's the same "bug", we are talking of Dinamic

Well, of course it could be possible, it would need disk images from the st originals in a not very strange format.

I don't remember well those extras, in "ATW" was a picture before to start the levels and in Satan a few pictures with music before the select level screen. Nothing world shaking...

Although i don't know if this is something appropriate for a WHDLoad slave.

the intro screen + music to convert And The intro screen + animation + music for the amiga release .......

And yes whdload would really apply i have the STX pasti files for after the war ST and also Satan in original

It would be cool to repair this

[SyX]

Sorry Retroplay, i used the lha version included in my linux machine (LHa for UNIX V 1.14i). I have launched the amiga emu and built the archive there using lha 2.15 freeware and updated the file in The Zone

OK, dlfrsilver, but before i need to finish the first beta of my last CPC project, it's going to be showed in the Reset Party this weekend and those Amiga fixes were for relaxing of hard z80 code

[Retroplay]

No worries, thanks for the update.

[Abaddon]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

can you see if the problem is the same with Satan and astro marine corps ?

BTW there is something which could be great, Satan and After The War Amiga Lack the atari ST graphic introductions would be good to see if they can be implemented on amiga

Satan does not appear to have this problem. It looks pretty much identical on both the ST and Amiga. I've included the warrior screen shots from both. I also checked the Magician and they look the same. I admit the intro is nice on the ST, but its not worth the time to add it to the Amiga version.

[Whitesnake]

Axel's Magic Hammer has a palette problem on the title screen but not in game.

At least it looks that way, upon checking; it is the same brightness as the Atari ST version.



Now you just need to fix "After The War" to use a two button joystick.

[Codetapper]

I'm not so sure about Axel's. Some of those values are above $777 already - eg $8a0, $88c, $00a. I just doubled the values in Photoshop and you end up with a picture that's far too bright.

However, if you want to tweak the palette manually and send me the RGB values I'll update the slave as long as I don't think it looks too ugly!