15th September 2006, 12:37 PM
Your list of data for the Windows versions is not entirely accurate. The cursors are black and white, that is a downside, but on the upside they are high res and thus easier to use. They are not the windows cursors.
Further, there's that bar but in the port job I'm sure they can get rid of that, and it didnt' really cut off any of the game anyway (it just took up some of what was already a black part of the screen for the game icons).
Since it is in fact an XP port, I'm pretty sure they'll basically just fix all those issues with both versions. The only thing to wonder about is what the cursors will look like. I'd like small high res with the DOS version colors, but it's more likely they'll just stick with one or the other outright.
Mast of Eternity... yeah they seem to want to forget that example of why marketters shouldn't be the ones in charge of major business decisions. Still, that game needs an update too. At least that one can be updated with a patch easily enough, if they cared. It just needs to have certain glitches fixed in the scoring system, some glitches in how it works with XP, and finally just better support of directx so detecting "3DFX" is no longer required to use all the higher graphical functions of the game (right now I use a glide wrapper to trick the game when I run it).
Further, there's that bar but in the port job I'm sure they can get rid of that, and it didnt' really cut off any of the game anyway (it just took up some of what was already a black part of the screen for the game icons).
Since it is in fact an XP port, I'm pretty sure they'll basically just fix all those issues with both versions. The only thing to wonder about is what the cursors will look like. I'd like small high res with the DOS version colors, but it's more likely they'll just stick with one or the other outright.
Mast of Eternity... yeah they seem to want to forget that example of why marketters shouldn't be the ones in charge of major business decisions. Still, that game needs an update too. At least that one can be updated with a patch easily enough, if they cared. It just needs to have certain glitches fixed in the scoring system, some glitches in how it works with XP, and finally just better support of directx so detecting "3DFX" is no longer required to use all the higher graphical functions of the game (right now I use a glide wrapper to trick the game when I run it).
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