27th September 2006, 7:33 PM
Yeah, but if you're like me and cut your teeth on those games, and enjoyed them because that's where it all began, then you want them anyway.
Anyway, let me try again. What I mean is, normally you'd THINK you could just window a low resolution game right? Just smaller, but of course as we both know with games like KQ5, it demands that the resolution be fixed a certain way (I am shocked, SHOCKED, that the basic design of the graphical interface in XP can actually still be detected just fine, and accurately, by these old games). Well, in XP when you decide to go with the compatibility option to switch to low resolution, it doesn't actually fill the screen with the program that's running. It's still in the larger resolution, but the game itself doesn't realize this and thinks it's in the smaller resolution, so you do actually get a small window where the game takes place. There's some more trickery if you want the game in full screen as well as this compatibility option though. Either way, it's an automatic conversion both ways so I don't need to remember anything. The trick is, as that site above mentions, that the program is faster than Window's compatibility option, so you need to have the buffer of a .bat file. That way it'll do the resolution conversion while the batch file is running (a split second) and KQ5 will start.
Odd that the quantity of games doesn't seem to matter. Exactly 4 PQ games costs the same as 7 KQ games. Further, ironic that I have the choice to either pay for cheaply ported games or download a fully remade and perfectly functional game for free. If they can do the same job for KQ4 and then just do a full 3rd party port of the last 3, I'll be sitting pretty (the glide wrapper does all the work I need to get KQ8 running perfectly, though I don't play that one very often, or at all in the past few years).
Anyway, let me try again. What I mean is, normally you'd THINK you could just window a low resolution game right? Just smaller, but of course as we both know with games like KQ5, it demands that the resolution be fixed a certain way (I am shocked, SHOCKED, that the basic design of the graphical interface in XP can actually still be detected just fine, and accurately, by these old games). Well, in XP when you decide to go with the compatibility option to switch to low resolution, it doesn't actually fill the screen with the program that's running. It's still in the larger resolution, but the game itself doesn't realize this and thinks it's in the smaller resolution, so you do actually get a small window where the game takes place. There's some more trickery if you want the game in full screen as well as this compatibility option though. Either way, it's an automatic conversion both ways so I don't need to remember anything. The trick is, as that site above mentions, that the program is faster than Window's compatibility option, so you need to have the buffer of a .bat file. That way it'll do the resolution conversion while the batch file is running (a split second) and KQ5 will start.
Odd that the quantity of games doesn't seem to matter. Exactly 4 PQ games costs the same as 7 KQ games. Further, ironic that I have the choice to either pay for cheaply ported games or download a fully remade and perfectly functional game for free. If they can do the same job for KQ4 and then just do a full 3rd party port of the last 3, I'll be sitting pretty (the glide wrapper does all the work I need to get KQ8 running perfectly, though I don't play that one very often, or at all in the past few years).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)