drnovice

Honestly 220 HP to infantry units (Fremen warriors) seems me to much considering that a tank has "only" 200 HP.

http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=File:210_-_Dune_II_-_DOS_-_Spice_Melange.ogg This (piano/organ version) is my favourite. 👍👌

Even if in this manual is indicated Fremen units have double HP respect other Troopers: http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/manuals/Dune II/Dune II - Insider's Guide.pdf I remember in DOS version Fremen units are normal Trooper/Troopers ingame after spawned, and no more armor respect other Troopers units. In Amiga version they are even blue (Atreides) color normal Troopers ingame instead brown.

Do you mean this image? Or bene gesserit mentat sprites?

It seems nice. I have to ask to my bros if he can try this and give me any feedback. Just a thing: right button of mouse centered the pointed tile in original behaviour, right?

Hi! What other versions do you refer? I applied those mods to v1.07 EU if I remember correctly. If you want all documentation send me mp and I'll send you all stuff I worked for.

Yes, but we also should remember in 90s the 640x480 streached mode was almost the only way to display Dos games. Nowadays we have much more choice and different formats to display on monitors, so a current Windows/Linux porting of an old Dos game should consider these things and get the intended format and display in the best way it. Even without knowing the story of the game, we could noticed the sight-shaped mouse cursor is streached with aspect correction (cut-out taken by your daum screenshot): respect original correct size (cut-out taken by OpenFodder): So sometimes (as C&C example) aspect correction is really corrective when displaying game, sometimes not (Cannon Fodder, Monkey Island 2, etc) looking at mouse cursors... (Monkey Island 2 screenshots by YouTube PC Longplay vs Amiga Longplay): Amiga PC

To integrate some info about real Amiga aspect ratio: http://coppershade.org/articles/More!/Topics/Correct_Amiga_Aspect_Ratio/ Best recap could be: I think Cannon Fodder porting from Amiga to Dos shouldn't have Dos correct aspect ratio, since 320/200 (16:10) already maintains correct size of drawing into game.

Beautiful discovery! We'll wait for news about it.

Old units you intend raiders (trikes) and Soldier/Infantry? Maybe it could be possible, adding some extra slots to structs/arrays and rooms on OpenDune code and integrate unit.emc file, but the effort could be a waste of time, if we're talking about the least used units in the game. We should completely redo the units stats to make useful and characteristic some units to avoid becoming the least used in the game. Anyway, I can't do any other PR if I have no answers on git about last fullscreen changes.

I looked at: https://sourceforge.net/p/dunedynasty/dunedynasty/ci/master/tree/src/video/video_a5.c But Dynasty used Allegro and OpenGL to render graphics. OpenDune way lets to manage SDL1.2/SDL2.0 with Nearest, Scale2x and Hqx filters to use Zoom In/Out and Toggle Fullscreen features.

We're waiting for approval by an opendune admininstrator. This changes can be ported even on Dune Dynasty if owner still can use SDL/SDL2 to graphics. But I don't understand why to port enhancements and improvements of Dynasty into OpenDune project, since this one is just a 1:1 porting by 16bit original game. I think OpenDune should remain a base opensource project to start if anybody would create something new (like Dynasty) on Dune2 clone games.

Resuming this topic, because OpenDune is still the most faithful porting of Dune2 original game. I'm trying to bring SDL1.2/SDL2.0 support even for Win32, because SDL is very good and simple to manage on Windows compiling by MSVC. So I wanted to give a Zoom In/Out feature (+/- keys) and a complete toggle fullscreen (F11 or Alt+Enter) mode, since with current default WinAPI code there is only possibility to manual resize window, but breaking original aspect ratio of game... If anyone would like try my Fork, please go here: https://github.com/drnovice/OpenDUNE consulting PR changes info: https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE/pull/281 Moreover: currently I can't try to compile on Linux/Mac, can anyone try if these features work fine on those systems and report feedback here or on github? Thanks!

Awesome work. The user interface seems very pro! So could it be used to other languages characters support?

Hello again The_Legacy, have you tried to read my PDFs? https://forum.dune2k.com/topic/24707-hex-editing-collection-on-exe/?page=1 If you don't understand anything, don't worry, I can give you a little support.

The_Legacy, maybe you should read this topics: https://forum.dune2k.com/topic/24707-hex-editing-collection-on-exe/ https://forum.dune2k.com/topic/18875-exe-editing-programming-issues/ https://forum.dune2k.com/topic/18360-dune-2-extended-project/ There, you can find more stuff and a start point to understand how and if you can change the game like you want. Opendune is great to start to expand the game, though I think DuneLegacy has already most of new modern functionality to give more life to a game that has more than 20 years old. By the way, I'm still waiting a reply about my last PR: https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE/pull/275 hoping that someone read it somewhere.

Yes I mean "embedding" external videos, I can't remember how to do it.

Thank you very much! It's a bit my life all that opcodes.. But I still can't edit my old posts to correct some things about attachments and/or code blocks used (the port transform them "all inline"). Moreover I would like to know if is it still possibile upload youtube video directly inside the posts instead only to link to refer them.

Yes, many of bugs are reported on: EXE editing & programming issues Dune 2 eXtended Project but I would like to know if it's possibile restore opendune forum (maybe by archive.org?) and why code blocks in new format forum are all "inline", so you can't understand much them. Surely my PDFs links should be fixed, but if you pass number of post direcly to "?do=findComment&comment=" querystring, whatever the name of the topic, it could find correct topic name and page number. E.g. if link to fix is: http://forum.dune2k.com/topic/18875-dune-2-exe-editing-programming-issues/page-18#entry370640 it can't bring to correct page and point of the topic, but using: https://forum.dune2k.com/topic/24707-hex-editing-collection-on-exe/?do=findComment&comment=370640 even if topic name into the url is wrong, forum engine will bring to correct topic name, page number and post point, thanks to 'findComment' paramater. Now I only would edit old post, to upload again the "Dune 2 v1.07-EU - Hex Editing PDF Collection" ZIP archive.

You mean this? https://forum.dune2k.com/topic/18875-exe-editing-programming-issues/?page=15 The 'error' (or 'bug') should be on: seg010:2657 7E 02 jle short loc_1CA8B ; Jump if Less or Equal (ZF=1 | SF!=OF) changing the "jle" to "jl" the equation, as shown by segra, will be: if (s->o.houseID == HOUSE_ORDOS && s->o.type == STRUCTURE_HEAVY_VEHICLE && s->upgradeLevel == 1 && si->upgradeCampaign[2] >= g_campaignID) return false; if (s->o.houseID == 2 && s->o.type == 4 && s->upgradeLevel == 1 && si->upgradeCampaign[2] >= 6) return false; P.S. Why my PDF attachment isn't available anymore? P.P.S. Is it possibile added youtube video objects directly into the post?

I remember that Amiga version (realesed after v1.07 MS-DOS AFAIK) gives Siege Tanks in Mission 6 for Ordos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW6M8XmD6DY&t=11988 this is why I always considered a bug, like saboteur "invisible" (Dos v1.0) and exploding to move commands (Dos v1.07). I have already shown all that things about Saboteur to Amiga version (here my video test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20pV6sx01KI ). However House Ordos already manages things WITHOUT Launchers (unless Starport) and it's already a very hard penalty I think.

Uhm, it seems definitively that the reason of the blurry (more or less marked) it was the scaler. If scaler=normal3x is less blurry on fullsceen respect scaler=none & fullscreen.

Yes I played originally Amiga version when I was boy, since I haven't got a PC in '90s. Indeed if you see on screenshots of review, the written are on 16:10 ratio respect 4:3 of ms-dos version. Anyway with: fullscreen=true fullresolution=desktop output=ddraw aspect=true scaler=normal2x seems better for DosBox Daum. (even if a bit of blurry remains, it seems to me).

With Dosbox Daum: no blurry but the ratio letters (look at "J" letters of Jools and Jops, are completely different) isn't maintained... I don't think is the right solution.

fullscreen=true fullresolution=1024x768 aspect=true scaler=none Very much blurry