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1999-03-04 Thread Diego Millan Jaureguizar
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1999-03-03 Thread jam
Hi, David! There is a guy here in Brazil who developed a palette file for Photoshop and Paint Shop which 'emulates' perfectly the MSX 256 color-palette. DH sarcastic mode DH How fantastic ... DH /sarcastic mode DH Everbody can write this stuff. DH It took me 1 (one) minute of

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1999-03-02 Thread Herbert Kloseck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert Vroemisse wrote: Do you want still keep the original soundtrack for SCC+? I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other composers. We could make Moonsound versions of the music. Or maybe it's wise to keep the

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1999-03-01 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Rieks W. Torringa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:zondag 28 februari 1999 9:54 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... Hi 2. Make a totally new game. New graphix, new music, better coding (is that possible?) and a really

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1999-03-01 Thread Niels Walta
At 10:02 1-3-99 +0100, you wrote: -- Van: Rieks W. Torringa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: zondag 28 februari 1999 9:54 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... Hi 2. Make a totally new game. New graphix, new music, better

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1999-03-01 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 08:52 26/02/99 +0100, you wrote: I think the number of people with GFX9000 is closer to 300 than to 3. But I think the graphic programs for MSX are better than the programs for PC. I mean that the MSX programs are capable to change little things like colors and some pixels very

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1999-02-28 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Hi Great. I think I can charter Johnny Hassink as well for the musics. But how about the programming, graphics and most important the translation? Yups, I also think Johnny would like composing musics for something like this. And the translation... I'd like to do it, but I know there's very

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1999-02-28 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Hi Do you want still keep the original soundtrack for SCC+? I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other composers. We could make Moonsound versions of the music. Or maybe it's wise to keep the original music. It helps to set the atmosphere. Snatcher without SCC? H, I

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1999-02-28 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Hi I have written code that emulates SCC or SCC+ on a MoonSound. Jerome Borsboom has written code that emulates SCC+ on 2 normal SCCs. So there are enough options to play the original music. Those thingies sound nice, but I guess when also making a MoonSound-version, arrangements that use the

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1999-02-28 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Hi 2. Make a totally new game. New graphix, new music, better coding (is that possible?) and a really fuck'n good story (based on the same characters and world as the original)! It would be like: "Snatcher 2 - the new game you've all been hoping for" No way. The power of Snatcher is both

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1999-02-28 Thread jalanc
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert Vroemisse wrote: Do you want still keep the original soundtrack for SCC+? I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other composers. We could make Moonsound versions of the music. Or maybe it's wise to keep the original music. It helps to set the

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1999-02-28 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 12:25 AM 02/28/99 PST, you wrote: If I'm correct, at the moment Teddywarez is busy programming a new SCC-tracker which would be more comfortable. But if we want Snatcher to play music over the SCC, we don't need an SCC-tracker, because the original music is good enough. But if you want to

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1999-02-28 Thread Rieks W. Torringa
Hi It sounds to me that what's happening here is the same that happened a long time ago: companies not willing to write MSX2 software because it doesn't work on MSX1 (so it doesn't sell well). I guess the Turbo R is a better example. MSX2, too, has been very popular and as far as I

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1999-02-27 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 12:03 AM 02/26/99 +0100, you wrote: CG registers? With the normal SCC you have to use the same instrument on CG channel 4 and 5, which is solved at the SCC+. At least, that is what CG I CG know, I have SD Snatcher, which uses the same SCC+. Ths SCC+ of SD Snatcher is different than the

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1999-02-26 Thread David Heremans
Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro wrote: At 17:08 24/02/99 +0100, you wrote: Or we could finally make a GFX9000 game... GFX9000 can display 15bit pictures, which is the highest color depth that the PSX supports. So 3 people can play it because they have a GFX 9000. I think the number of

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1999-02-25 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:woensdag 24 februari 1999 20:54 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: AW: AW: About Snatcher... At 18:31 23-2-99 +0100, you wrote: At 02:02 PM 2/23/99 +0100, you wrote: I want to arrange the whole

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1999-02-25 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Maarten ter Huurne[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:woensdag 24 februari 1999 17:08 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... Robert Vroemisse wrote: Or we could finally make a GFX9000 game... GFX9000 can display 15bit pictures

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1999-02-25 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Ahti Soilamaa wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Coen van der Geest wrote: I believe Snatcher was made in Screen 7, but I could be wrong about that... I bet it was made in screen 5. Don't bet much. You

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1999-02-25 Thread jam
Robert Vroemisse wrote: RV I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other RV composers. We could make Moonsound versions of the music. Or maybe RV it's wise to keep the original music. It helps to set the atmosphere. RV Snatcher without SCC? Of course!!! Re-arranging the whole

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1999-02-25 Thread jam
Hello John. original, so it must stay. When the music was bad, we had te rearrange the tracks again, but since the music was really good, why change it. [[..some snips..]] jj jj Please don't keep the original music - it's written for SCC+. jj Where can I buy one??: / It is VERY

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1999-02-24 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Coen van der Geest[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:dinsdag 23 februari 1999 15:07 Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Onderwerp:AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... Hi there, Why convert it first from pc to MSX? It is a MSX game, so we make it on MSX. Just hack

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1999-02-24 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Maarten ter Huurne[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:dinsdag 23 februari 1999 18:31 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: AW: AW: About Snatcher... At 02:02 PM 2/23/99 +0100, you wrote: I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other composers

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1999-02-24 Thread Coen van der Geest
Hi there, Please don't keep the original music - it's written for SCC+. Where can I buy one??: / Isn't SCC+ the same as SCC but then with channels 4 and 5 seperated in registers? With the normal SCC you have to use the same instrument on channel 4 and 5, which is solved at the SCC+. At

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1999-02-24 Thread Herbert Kloseck
Niels Walta wrote: Why does everybody want to remake Snatcher? I know it's a great game but most of the people don't want to buy something that really ain't good. You can polish the old game up but it would still feel the same. I suggest two options: 1. Just translate the original so

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1999-02-24 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Ahti Soilamaa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:woensdag 24 februari 1999 15:17 Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Onderwerp:Re: AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Robert Vroemisse wrote: Another problem is the size of the pictures

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1999-02-24 Thread Stefano Fronteddu
]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: mercoledì 24 febbraio 1999 15.45 Oggetto: AW: AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... -- Van: Ahti Soilamaa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: woensdag 24 februari 1999 15:17 Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Onderwerp: Re: AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... On Wed, 24 Feb 1999

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1999-02-24 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Stefano Fronteddu[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:woensdag 24 februari 1999 16:17 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:R: AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... It's simple ... 2 versions, one engine, one music but different graphics resolution. One for MSX 2 and one

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1999-02-24 Thread Patrick Kramer
-Original Message- From: Robert Vroemisse [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 3:43 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: AW: AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... So 3 people can play it because they have a GFX 9000. No...oh, not SO rare

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1999-02-24 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Patrick Kramer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:woensdag 24 februari 1999 16:31 Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Onderwerp:RE: AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... -Original Message- From: Robert Vroemisse [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday

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1999-02-24 Thread Patrick Kramer
-Original Message- From: Robert Vroemisse [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 4:38 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: AW: AW: AW: AW: About Snatcher... -- Van:Patrick Kramer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: woensdag 24

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1999-02-24 Thread quickzand
At 18:31 23-2-99 +0100, you wrote: At 02:02 PM 2/23/99 +0100, you wrote: I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other composers. We could make Moonsound versions of the music. Or maybe it's wise to keep the original music. It helps to set the atmosphere. Snatcher without SCC?

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1999-02-24 Thread Alex Wulms
] Isn't SCC+ the same as SCC but then with channels 4 and 5 seperated in ] registers? With the normal SCC you have to use the same instrument on ] channel 4 and 5, which is solved at the SCC+. At least, that is what I ] know. You are right. That is the only real difference between the SCC and the

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1999-02-24 Thread Alex Wulms
] It sounds to me that what's happening here is the same that happened ] a long time ago: companies not willing to write MSX2 software because it ] doesn't work on MSX1 (so it doesn't sell well). ] I think MSX would have been more popular if the basic qualities were I don't think so.

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1999-02-24 Thread Rainier Maas
I don't think so. The one and only reason that the PC won the home computer war was that most money was put into the PC. This is a very simple economic principle. Ofcourse, you can go start discussing about the mistakes made by the MSX manufacturers to explain why MSX died (from a

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1999-02-23 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Herbert Kloseck[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:dinsdag 23 februari 1999 11:09 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: AW: About Snatcher... Konami Man wrote: Just a crazy idea: maybe instead of translating Snatcher, it is a better idea to

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1999-02-23 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Herbert Kloseck[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:dinsdag 23 februari 1999 13:48 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: AW: About Snatcher... Konami Man wrote: Just a crazy idea: maybe instead of translating Snatcher, it is a better idea to

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1999-02-23 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:dinsdag 23 februari 1999 14:29 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: AW: About Snatcher... At 11:07 23-2-99 +0100, you wrote: -- Van: Herbert Kloseck[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:

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1999-02-23 Thread Herbert Kloseck
Konami Man wrote: Just a crazy idea: maybe instead of translating Snatcher, it is a better idea to capture graphics and reprogram the whole game with english texts? Such type of game has not a very complicated programming structure... besides musics can be

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1999-02-23 Thread Coen van der Geest
Hi there, I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other composers. We could make Moonsound versions of the music. I have made a Moonblaster version of the 2nd Intro song (the one with the guitars), maybe that helps? Or maybe it's wise to keep the original music. It helps to set

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1999-02-23 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Herbert Kloseck[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:dinsdag 23 februari 1999 14:57 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp:Re: AW: AW: About Snatcher... Konami Man wrote: Just a crazy idea: maybe instead of translating Snatcher

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1999-02-23 Thread Robert Vroemisse
-- Van: Coen van der Geest[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:dinsdag 23 februari 1999 14:04 Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Onderwerp:AW: AW: About Snatcher... Hi there, I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other composers. We could make Moonsound

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1999-02-23 Thread Coen van der Geest
Hi there, Why convert it first from pc to MSX? It is a MSX game, so we make it on MSX. Just hack the pictures out of the game and make it a .GE5 file or something we can usu in DD Graph or graphsaurus. That's the easiest way I think. BMP or GIF files can't be used on MSX directely, so we cannot

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1999-02-23 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Coen van der Geest wrote: Hi there, Why convert it first from pc to MSX? It is a MSX game, so we make it on MSX. Just hack the pictures out of the game and make it a .GE5 file or something we can usu in DD Graph or graphsaurus. That's the easiest way I think. BMP or

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1999-02-23 Thread john . j
Robert Vroemisse schrieb: I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other composers. We could make Moonsound versions of the music. Or maybe it's wise to keep the original music. It helps to set the atmosphere. Snatcher without SCC? H, I don't know. I would say:

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1999-02-23 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 02:02 PM 2/23/99 +0100, you wrote: I want to arrange the whole soundtrack maybe with some other composers. We could make Moonsound versions of the music. Or maybe it's wise to keep the original music. It helps to set the atmosphere. Snatcher without SCC? H, I don't know. I have written