MagicEngine

Cain Belmont · Visitor Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 3 Location: London

Now, if it against the rules to ask this, please tell me and I will delete. Also, I am not begging, just curious. Now, I wanted to know, because I heard that 1.00 will have digital sound, meaning I can play Dracula X with sound! Yippeee! Thanks for any rough estimate.

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Kaminari · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 1:26 am Post subject:

Just a wild guess: when it's ready Smile

dmichel · Admin Joined: 04 Apr 2002 Posts: 1166 Location: France

I had planned to release it soon, but lately I have been very busy with other things and I couldn't work much on MagicEngine. I'm having time again to work on it, but I have a lot of work to catch up now. This is difficult to give an estimate, and users expect a lot from this version, I better make sure it includes all the things I announced rather than releasing a lesser version quicker else they will burn me alive. ^^;
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Cain Belmont · Visitor Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 3 Location: London

Alright! Thanks for the update. It is indeed better to wait for a good version then get an okay version quick. I will be here to buy it when it comes out!(I am 14, and I dont get much money a month, so I cant buy it till a moth or two.) Applause

Specineff · Elder Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 258 Location: Arizona

Thanks, Dave. Even though I'm just dying to have it, it's better to take the extra time to release a quality product. Just don't take the Duke Nukem Forever route, please? Wink

(In case you wonder about it, it was Duke Nukem Forever, later, Duke Nukem Whenever, and if it ever gets released, it will be Duke Nukem Whatever. Razz

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Kaminari · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 10:36 pm Post subject:

ME 1.0 looks good so far! Good work David Surprised

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There's something I've been wondering about the 512x224 screenmode. How will it be supported in TV Mode? Let's say I create a 512x448 custom resolution. Would it be possible for Magic Engine to only apply a 1x2 zoom instead of the usual 2x2 (so that the vertical resolution would be correctly displayed in full screen without the need to alter the horizontal resolution at all)?

The only problem I see is that such a method would still allow the scanlines, but any horizontal interpolation would be impossible I suppose (though a resolution of 512 pixels doesn't really need any interpolation Smile

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lennon1231 · Member Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Hong Kong

I hope most of the bugs can be fixed before the ver. 1.0 release. Cool

Hope you can put more time to tune and test the new core.
Keep up the great work!Carry on! Applause

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lennon1231 · Member Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Hong Kong

Sorry,clicking too fast made a doulble posting. d'oh!

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jammaniaclord · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:44 am Post subject:

please take your time so this one is a killer release!we will wait!!!!!!MAGIC ENGINE RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dancing

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dmichel · Admin Joined: 04 Apr 2002 Posts: 1166 Location: France

Kaminari · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 9:08 am Post subject:

Specineff · Elder Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 258 Location: Arizona

Kaminari · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 3:03 pm Post subject:

The new sound engine as reported by David is giving me wild expectations! Shocked

The waveform tweaker in particular is really intriguing. The PSG to MIDI is a fine addition. And this built-in MML player looks like a pretty good solution for listening to those PSG tunes in CD games. Will it be possible to extract/save them in some way?

Can't wait for the release... Drool

dmichel · Admin Joined: 04 Apr 2002 Posts: 1166 Location: France

Kaminari · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 7:55 pm Post subject:

That's great news, David.

Another question: I suppose this MML feature won't be limited to CD games but will be also available for cartridge games? There's a good third of HuCards (and all TurboChips) which were never ripped to HES.

Oh, I feel so excited... Rolling Eyes