Dungeon Master Forum

Hey

In an idle moment - one of many - I was thinking how it might be fun to use the dmjava engine to remake Xenomorph. I thought it would be pretty simple as there isnt much to xenomorph, being lazy i thought that i
could just load the graphics from xenomorph into a suitable art package,convert them to gifs and then hey presto, but I cant seem to find a package that recognizes the file format used, anyone know how it can be done - I tried screen capture but it didnt work

That's a tricky one. I think Gambit suggested the English Amiga Board to me once, for people to help you extracting Amiga game images.

Doubtful that any package can simply "load" old Amiga game resources -- most of the time they were encrypted and compressed to.

As Ian says, you'll probably need to use some kind of memory ripper to get the images, but it's a long and laborious process. Check out that forum as suggested, though this is more useful than the link above:

http://eab.abime.net/forumdisplay.php?f=64

Cheers folks , um Ive never played it on the amiga just ST and recently on
pc - where it runs tooo fast or like a cow under emulation -

like i said before it was just an idle thought, i suppose i was half hoping some greater mind than mine had already done it, i had read somewhere that it used the dm engine, but maybe thats wrong

There are utilities for slowing the processor down, but I cant for the life of me think what to search for in Google.
Usually I dont have this problem as I use DosBox and can assign the number of processor cycles there.

Yup ive used dosbox but the computer im playing it on is pretty old -400mhz - and either you get good sound and juddery graphics or the opposite, it was the same when i tried to play arena under Emulation.

I had been playing xenomorph just using VDSM for the sound but its too speedy, and i got sick of it pretty quick - The bottom line is that back in the day I played xenomorph on the ST and thought it was pretty cool, I now realise that its a bit ropey,Dungeon master seems to me to have weatherd much better, but hell id like to finish xenomorph! - One day

I did download a prog called Cpu killer - or something similar - but not only did it not work but it was only a trial, gah!

I started off with Xenomorph with exactly the same feeling (and didnt finish it wiether)... Years later here we are reliving DM instead...

Yup Games come and go but DM is for ever

I was having a go at the RTC original version of Dm the other night,I think i must know levels of it like i know Streets in my town, Thats either a good thing or a little Scary....bah! it makes me happy