I listened to thousands of tracks in the High Voltage SID Collection and on Youtube to find things that actually fit the tone that I was looking for. The next task was finding music that was actually appropriate which ended up being a lot more difficult.
False hero version 0.35 how to#
The first task was figuring out how to even implement that, but after a fair bit of digging and experimentation I came up with a pretty nice end result which incorporates sidplayfp and mpg123 (depending on whether the music is in native. why not try to incorporate some of that and help make the experience a little more atmospheric. The thought occurred to me - there's an ocean of user-made SID music out there.
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Manuals are definitely a huge part of this - especially in the case of Infocom titles which would regularly have extensive and extravagant documentation - but another issue is that many of these games are entirely silent. That's why I wanted to see what I could do to make the experience a little bit more enjoyable. I know that these are not everyone's thing. This is actually much more than I ever anticipated when I began.Īll of this was the outcropping of an earlier goal for this update - to show some love for text adventures. The current grand total is 1068 manuals incorporated into the collection, which means that 43% of the games have toggleable manuals. All of this entailed a huge amount of by-hand work, but I think it's absolutely been worth it in the end. There are several reasons for this - the most obvious is that they simply display more cleanly in the incorporated viewer (CDisplay) but this also allowed me to clean them up, divide them up in order to make them more easily readible, and add additional materials (maps, reference cards, etc.) into one combined document.
Then, just to make things more difficult (because why not) and go the extra mile, I went through the process of converting nearly all of these from pdf to cbr format to improve the experience. I scoured many, many, resources, and even got some additional help in this undertaking by Timber and Smiling Spectre of the eXoDOS project (thanks again!). This leads to the largest task of them all - sourcing the manuals to begin with.
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