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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Doom runs on AJBRe: ANNOUNCE: Doom runs on AJB
From: Eric Linenberg <elinenbe_at_umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:32:52 -0500 WOW! About two years ago, when I first programmed Sokoban, I was working on an 2 or 3 bit grayscale engine similar to what was done on the TI-85 years back, but I encountered so much flicker that it did not work as I thought it would. My idea was 2/3 bitmaps that are flickered in quick repetition and where the adjacent bitmaps have the same bit on, it would produce a darker color. As I said this worked real well on the TI-85 and did not work for me on the Archos -- of course it seems that you have now made this possible (as you know much more then I do) What I was wondering is what can come out of this that is more "rockbox usable?" -- faster scrolling fonts -- anti-aliased fonts? (ipod here we come!) -- boot up logos that show just how 'leet rockbox is? -- nicer widgets, etc. -- smooth up/down scrolling with grayscale? -- wicked visualizations I get well over 60 frames a second here with what looks like very high quality video (for the archos that is). Also, I can listen to music while I watch the video -- who will be the first person to "release" a movie for the recorder where you press play on a music file and then it counts down 3,2,1 and then you start up a video? Simpsons anyone? Does byte-swapping effect the video? WOW! This is exciting. I wonder what will come of it. I see a whole new life given to rockbox (not that it was dead) Some things I noticed that make the video smoother and clearer. Lower your contrast a few numbers and then set backlight to "on" -e ID> Hi, time to stir up the group a bit: ID> We had this april fools joke about Doom, which caused quite a reaction. ID> Now I can give you the real thing, no joke, Doom running on Recorder/FM ID> models. You won't be disappointed, promised. Explains my work on LCD speedup, I ID> guess! ID> Look into my file section: ID> http://joerg.hohensohn.bei.t-online.de/archos/doom/ ID> It needs a plugin and a special build of Rockbox (to be committed soon, but ID> right now I refrain from that because of all those Neo changes). ID> Download fm.zip or rec. zip, depending on what you have. Copy the contained ID> .rock plugin to .rockbox/rocks of your box, and rolo into the provided .ajz. ID> Now you can play .rvf files, which you also find in the zips there. Download ID> the big one and unpack it to the box. Play it by selecting it like a .mp3, ID> and have fun! ID> Jörg ID> PS: If you have low bandwith, you can skip the big file and play the content ID> of the smaller, also nice, but no Doom. Received on 2003-12-13 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |