Une bêta version de mon visionneuse de etapes, entraîneur et générateur de codes pour Moktar et Titus the Fox est online! Obtenez-l´à http://ttf.mine.nu. La prochaine version aura également un rédacteur de etapes.

you can speak english

Oh alright then

BTW, does anyone know/have a version of Moktar which isn´t too fast, and which is not only for EGA/VGA? Since Moktar is older than TTF, you´d say it should also support the old videomodes.

Just trying to get all versions of the games in my program

I don´t really know what version I have.
I got 3:
-The cracked version I got many years ago, which is the one I use cause it doesn´t need the disk to play.
-A 3.5 disk
-A Full box, with a 3.5 and a 5.25 disk, the doc, and, a poster, i think.

But of course, both 3.5 disks are the same, and I think my cracked version is the same too.
I don´t know if they work on CGA, i just remember typing -C or -T on the command line had an influence, but graphics weren´t CGA.
Hmm, about " too fast" version, did you try Dosbox ?
It´s an EXCELLENT, free " dos emulator".
Just use google
If you program a bit in ASM, you shouldn´t have any problem to configure it .

I just tried MTF, and it works fine

Really nice job, excellent, wonderful, . ..
is there a key to toggle display of secret bricks ?
i found two ways to see them:
-moving the cursor ( but can´t idle)
-removing normal bricks display

and for level 5 buggy gates: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL !

I just tried the " -> lower right" one, and the one on the top of the level, and both crashed my game, as expected.
But you have to know I had found one before ! !!
and guess which ?
The first on the left on start, i reached it by taking max of crates + 2 bareels from the right, bringing them back to start to look for... look for what ? gates in the air ? ( I had time to spend when i did that).
and I found... a gate in the air...
But it warped me in the upper left corner, which is not what i see on your editor. Not that much surprising...

Will there be a way to go back in the editor while playing a level in version 2.0 ?

hmm, do you know how " barriers" function ?
I mean, when the screen doesn´t scroll behind a limit ( e.g. many of third level´s secrets are on ONE screen, and it´s impossible to see the sky below the floor at level 11´s end.)

If you got Eric´s mail/msn/... , could he come on this forum ? :dream:
I saw he signed up in your guest book, so, i might hope...

The one-screen secrets work by having a " no-scroll" flag in the gate list, like when you enter a certain gate the screen won´t scroll anymore. I´m not sure how level 11´s anti-scroll floor works, but I suspect the game just doesn´t scroll down if you don´t go down ( you enter that area from high up anyways).

There is a variable in the level files to stop the screen from scrolling horizontally however, like on the right of level 3 and 7, but MTF doesn´t show it ( yet). It´s just a maximum right-scrolling limit.

I´ll ask Eric to come by

I *like* your answers

Hem, what´s your true age ?
I´m a bit dubious about the " 71" shown in your profil

once more, i forgot to ask you what other old games you love.
Privateer 2 ?
Master of orion 2 ?
Keen, doom, Quake, civ & colonization, ( and much more) ?

Do you know something " better than dosbox" to run old games under XP ?

Here is a more complete list
They are some recent ones, but many of my favourites are oldies

pontifex, doom, quake, Unreal Tounrament, UT2004, moktar, privateers 2, bloodbowl, Heroes 2, HOMM 3, dune2, warcraft, warcraft2, starcraft brood wars, moo1, master of orion 2, chickens2, another world, sid meier´s civilization, colonization, keen1, keen4, mega lo mania, tyrian, wolf3D, the worms saga, except 3D ones, wacky wheels, zzt, prince of persia 1&2, tim, goldeneye, perfect dark, deus EX, super puyo puyo 2 remix, tetris, lemmings, abductor, jetpack, squarez, rampage, sam&, day of the tentacle, angband, ( x)kobo, laserstrike, laser chess, capture the flag, spacecom, hidesink, kicks, set, metal slug, liero, tristan, f29, Ball bullet gun, probotector, Super mario all stars & world, sonic 1&2, . ..

I´m always too lazy to fill in all that profile information correctly

At least, now my age reflects reality.

Aha, I´ve played a lot of the games in your list
You should also try DROD ( freeware puzzle, see www.drod.net) and Anachronox ( very nice RPG, also quite funny), see HOTU´s entry at http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3605 )

Well, I like DosBox a lot for the older games that don´t require all the CPU horse power. I play newer games mostly in the command prompt using VDMSound. If all else fails, you could always dual boot into DOS.

Another PC emulator is Bochs ( http://bochs.sourceforge.net ), although that´s a " pure" emulator, so you have to install an OS and such things.

:thx: ^^

DROD´s name remembers me a Wharramer-like game my brother develloped we called TWOTDTK
( The war of the death that kills )

What is exactly VDMSound ? I thought it was JUST some sound emulation like SB, Adlib...
And what version should I get ?

About dual boot :/ I don´t really like that, is Bochs better than freedos ?

About gamezzzzzz, do you know Chronic logic ?
If not, you HAVE to download Pontifex & gish demo.
You might not enjoy, but it really would surprise me.
We spent several hours on the unique " deathmatch" level of the demo with my brother, this game is undescribable, and unique.
And try this too if you don´t know it
http://www.htf.free.fr/

Haha, yes Happy Tree Friends. I´ve got all the episodes on my HD

I´m also playing Gish, although I didn´t play it for a while now ( been busy playing DROD and making a certain program for Moktar and TTF).
Their columns-like game, Triptych, is also quite fun.

VDMSound is indeed a sound card emulator for windows NT/XP. So, it will only fix your sound problems Latest version should be the best one ( although it hasn´t been updated for quite some time)

Bochs is a more general emulator, while DosBox is specifically to play old dos games, so my guess is nothing beats DosBox in emulating DOS games. I thought FreeDOS was a freeware DOS-like operating system, so it´s not comparable to Bochs at all. You could use FreeDOS for dual boot though

Another old game I like is Paganitzu ( from Apogee), maybe that´ll be the next game I make an editor for . But first, let´s finish MTF.

If you like Paganitzu, a newer version is also out, called Fitznik. See http://www.dexterity.com/fitznik

Thx for info & stuff.
If you know a way to make Privateer 2 correctly run under XP ( Too slow under Dosbox ) ,

I tried DROD, and it seems cool, even if both first level were really easy.
A puzzle i really liked is Laserstrike ( maybe laZer), by Kevin ng.
But it has problems under WinXP. This puzzle is, i think, very interresting, and really difficult levels are provided by ´Gionni´ .

I managed to run Privateer 2 by using Virtual PC. When I tried it directly from XP´s prompt however, it messed up my graphics

Laserstrike looks exactly like a game I´ve played on my old TI-83, Laser Mayhem. It´s quite fun indeed.

About MTF, it seems that windows 98 doesn´t like it. I´ve gotten myself a PC with w98 on it to test, and surely it made me reboot the pc. I´m fixing that now, so expect a version 0.991 soon. It will also display the solidity of the tiles, so that uber-secret on level 8 will finally be visible.

1.991

Hmm, Virtual PC ? Seems it doesn´t require multiboot, and is completly indepandant of your system, isnt´it ?
So, i could get an emulated PC, and install a dos, a sound card, games... on it ?
( I have no time to make such tests since i´m not admin at school and cant´t use my PC for the moment)

Virtual PC is made by microsoft , google around a bit, they have a trial version on their site somewhere.

It´s about the same thing as VMWare, but works quite well for DOS games ( although the AdLib emulation is quite terrible, so don´t run Moktar on it )

After you install a DOS on it ( it just uses your PC´s floppy) be sure to install CDROM drivers and install their DOS tools, that let you share directory´s between the emulated pc and the real one. A sound card works by default.

It runs as a windows application, so no multi-boot required

Yes, i alredy googled around, but i have no time to install this, since i go on this forum from school ( no admins authorisations to install) and " my" PC belongs to my brother. ( He always is playing with).