Name: Anonymous 2016-07-01 7:31
so I've been a bit bored and decided to reverse engineer an old game so that it will run on modern computers. the big problem here was the resolution: the game runs in 320x240. I managed to redraw the game 'window' to 640x480 without too much hassle but I'm having a hard time with redrawing levels.
basically, if the level is smaller than 640x480, it will be drawn in the middle of the screen. if a previous level was bigger, parts of it will remain drawn on the screen which looks pretty dumb. also, triggers are visible in cutscene because it seems they've been programmed as actual in-game objects and simply hidden from your view.
my idea of fixing that is to upscale the window only and create a bitmap with some fancy borders around the 320x240 area with actual game, kinda like all those vertical shmups do it on non-vertical screens. drawing once would be enough as the game would stick to its original size and wouldn't touch my borders. this way, the game would look the way it was originally meant to but there would be no screen real estate wasted.
how would I go around doing that provided I can get handle to the window easily? MS documentation sucks and it clearly wasn't written with assembler in mind. I can fuck around with C but where's fun in that?
basically, if the level is smaller than 640x480, it will be drawn in the middle of the screen. if a previous level was bigger, parts of it will remain drawn on the screen which looks pretty dumb. also, triggers are visible in cutscene because it seems they've been programmed as actual in-game objects and simply hidden from your view.
my idea of fixing that is to upscale the window only and create a bitmap with some fancy borders around the 320x240 area with actual game, kinda like all those vertical shmups do it on non-vertical screens. drawing once would be enough as the game would stick to its original size and wouldn't touch my borders. this way, the game would look the way it was originally meant to but there would be no screen real estate wasted.
how would I go around doing that provided I can get handle to the window easily? MS documentation sucks and it clearly wasn't written with assembler in mind. I can fuck around with C but where's fun in that?