Official Off-Topic Thread

[.TakaM]

Woo, found Detroit Rock City for $9
Gene Simmons' commentary is pretty interesting

[Terley]

my bro's had surgery over the weekend n bin discharged this afternoon, he shd be ok   

[leroy]

ok dats grt and you cn stp talkng liek dis nao 

[Atnas]

I always wonder why people take such offense to someone typing in shorthand. I really don't mind it, maybe it's because I do it myself, or maybe because I don't mind it, I do it myself.

Though Terley doesn't have a history of this style of writing so I assume he is tired, and he has just cause to be. I'm glad your bro is ok. c:

[Shrike]

Leroy, that's not very nice.
I'm sure Terley was busy running off to go tend to his twin or something, not having much time to type, and his reward is someone criticizing him for doing so.

Glad he's going to be O.K., Terley!  Tell him we all say congrats.  How's your family coping?  When I was hospitalized we were all a mess.

[leroy]

Wow I'm sorry, I didn't mean my little joke as an personal attack against him. 



PS. Geez.

[Shrike]

That sounded more like sarcasm then an apology, although I wasn't asking for either, I just wanted to point out you being insensitive.  Maybe some nice words, that's all.  Rather than criticizing and moving on.

Thank you for your apology.  Maybe I took what you said wrong.  Sorry if I did. 

[Terley]

Dude i'll fuckin type however I want, wouldn't of guessed i'd be pulled up for vocabulary here. Especially after coming here for support, however you meant it to come across it's still quite an arsy thing to say.

thx

[surt]

Can anybody point me in the direction of some EGA games which use a custom 16 colour palette rather than the standard EGA palette?

The only game I can ever recall seeing with one is the first Warlords game, and even then I'm not certain that it isn't just a 16 colour VGA palette.

Also any ideas why custom EGA palettes are so rare? Not well supported in hardware? Harder to code for? Fewer available features? Or is it just that VGA came along before anyone learned to fully exploit EGA?

If I can summon up sufficient motivation I want to try exploring the quality difference a custom EGA palette can provide over standard, so any examples you can point me toward could come in useful.

[Ben2theEdge]

Duke Nukem 2 and Fire & Ice are two 16-color DOS games that I can think of off the top of my head... I think they were 16-color VGA though, not EGA. (And Duke Nukem 2 is a textbook example of how to make a 16-color palette that's almost as useless as EGA  )