Posted by Brian on 6, 2001 at 9:31 AM:
In Reply to: PC setup for Dragons Lair... posted by Brian on 4, 2001 at 5:34 PM:
Ok, all these comments got me to thinking, which is usually a bad thing hehehe...
All of the game play files on my version are avi's at 320x200 res. When I full screen the window, the res sucks (unless I stand about 10 feet away). I loaded up on of the avi's in Media Player and it ran fine and even looked decent at 640x400 when my monitor was set to 1024x768. Granted, not the biggest screen in the world, but doable for a cocktail type thing, which is ultimately what I'd like.
So, next I booted up Visual Basic, of which I know very little, and in about 15 minutes had a media player-based exe that would play an avi with a solid black background and border. Now the gears are really starting to turn...
Of course, work keeps getting in the way, but I'm gonna give a whirl to re-writing the shell of the game. All of the avi's are on the cd and easily accessible and even somehwta organized. The only thing is, at this point, I'd have to use little more than cheat sheets for the moves and actually play them in order to determine the timing of the button presses and joystick moves to get accurate recreation of the game. Does anybody know where I could go to find out a listing of the timing of the moves, if one exists?
Brian