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The lost vikings 2 640x4805/26/2023 It's cool that you have added support for high-res graphics from the Mac version. MrFlibble: Hello! I've just discovered your port. I wonder if the double-pixel mode can be still found somewhere in the source code, and added as an option to be coupled with high-res menu graphics? I have no idea how the native Mac version handles the actual gameplay screen, but it would be logical if this mode were used.Īlso for some reason, when I'm running the game in low-res mode with scaling, the messages in the tutorial level keep flickering, but stay normally on screen if running in high-res with no scaling. In your port, setting the screen resolution to 320x240 and using a scaling factor of 2 gets a somewhat similar result to this old mode, but it is not possible to properly combine this with high-res screens and fonts, as they get double-sized too and do not fit on the screen. However, it seems that the game can only run in high-resolution mode with in-game graphics of the original size.Ī while ago I was playing around with the various DOS versions of Abuse and discovered that versions up to v1.05 have an option to run the game in the 640x480 resolution with upscaled graphics. Some stuff from the Mac version like setting the controls, rendering options and enemy kill count I haven't found in the code, so my guess would be the released source code wasn't that of the Mac version, but the earlier version.Īlso speaking of trends in that time, I've read on Abuse Moby Games page that they were porting the game to PlayStation 1, but Sony didn't allow them to release it because it was not a 3D game and it was "just" a port. If you set hires=2, the logo at the start of the game will change to Bungie logo. Some images like the one in the main menu use a different color palette and it doesn't render properly, so I disabled it. You can open config file and set hires=1, for bigger menu buttons, intro, credits and end game screens from the Mac version, and big_font=1 for bigger font. I enabled some of those hi-res graphics in this port. Abuse was a great game, but FPS were pretty much what everyone was buying. I bought the Mac OS version of Abuse way back when it first came out - it was ported by crackdotcom themselves and published by Bungie Software, and it sported all kinds of improvements like higher-res graphics.įrom what I recall, crackdotcom were planning a sequel but they just didn't have the money to see it through to the end.
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