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[Keatah]

Anyone still looking for this?

[Animan]

I still open this game every now and then. Very fun.

[onlysublime]

I played this last night. thanks for reminding me of its excellence! at 1920x1080 with antialiasing on and at 100+ fps, there's not nary a jaggie in sight besides the "super recharge" bitmap. it's truly a sight to behold. I wish there was a good way to record how beautiful this game looks.

[Keatah]

The latest version of this game is 3991, check the lower righthand corner of the splash screen.
Also, a known bug, if you pass through and complete two warps, entering the third one (or passing 5 more levels thereafter) the game will CTD. Too bad.

[onlysublime]

what is CTD?

[Austin]

Crash to the desktop? Dunno.

[Keatah]

Yes - crash to desktop - http://en.wikipedia....rash_to_desktop

[Hyper_Eye]

Too bad he didn't release the project as open-source before it vanished. I'm sure someone would have been happy to fix bugs and advance it further. I would have certainly taken a look at it.

[onlysublime]

does anyone know a way to record high quality PC video? I'd love to make a nice video of Typhoon. I used Camtasia to make the last one and it really looks ugly.

[onlysublime]

This game was really challenging for me to record since my video card doesn't have component out (I normally use a hauppauge hd-pvr). I tried out Fraps to record it. This is a much better recording than the last one. This is gameplay of Typhoon 2001 which pays homage to Tempest 2000 for the Atari Jaguar which was a remake of the Tempest arcade game by Atari. If you're wondering why the web rotates, it's a game option. Dave Theurer mentioned that Tempest was originally designed to have the web rotate while the ship stayed still, but changed it because he thought people would get nauseous. This game runs beautifully at 1920x1080+ resolutions with antialiasing and at 100+ fps. I used Fraps to record it but to keep the file size manageable, I played the game at 1280x720 and recorded at half resolution (640x360) and kept it at 60 fps. I then used Handbrake to convert it to h.264 MP4. Originally, it was at the recorded resolution with black borders around it to make it 1280x720, but Handbrake cropped out the black area and blew up the remaining video to 1280x720. Also, Youtube caps videos at 30 fps. The game looks much better running natively on a PC without the overhead of recording. But watch at 720P if you can (even though it's fake 720P).

Edited by onlysublime, Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:24 AM.

[Beetle]

Does someone still have an archive of the linux build? A shame it vanished...





PS: Lucky me, finally (after looking over an hour for it) i found a loaction :
http://www.sourcefil...01_r3992.tar.gz

Edited by Beetle, Sat May 12, 2012 11:07 AM.