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   Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 19:55:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   So I'm hacking on Mahjongg VGA by Ron Balewski.
   Like you do.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 19:55:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The cool thing about this game is that there's a ton of user-made tilesets for it that have been preserved on old BBS-shovelware CDs.
     And it's all this lovely amateur pixelart so naturally I gotta collect it.

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     Chicken :cqlgusu: (lookitmychicken@blorbo.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 19:55:13 JST Chicken :cqlgusu:

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     @foone oh my goodness. I remember starting to make a custom tileset for that game. I made a dozen or so tiles based on tarot cards before I gave up on the project. (They're long since lost to time.)

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 19:55:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     This isn't to be confused with Mah Jongg by Nels Anderson.

     I'm also hacking that one, but not in THIS thread.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:11:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The creator of this one is truly an evil person

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:11:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     that's Carol Alt, Cheryl Tiegs, and Christie Brinkley.

     thanks to @ann3nova@corteximplant.comm

     ☠ Captain Arcee ☠ and GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:11:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Reverted back to plain DOS colors

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:11:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     who thought this tileset was a good idea? because they were very wrong.

     it's tiled "Carol, Cheryl and Christie" and I have no idea who those women are.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:11:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I wasted time make it match the correct background/foreground color and it's not even visible half the time!

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:11:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     done

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:11:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I made the foolish mistake that all tilesets would define a remotely sensible palette

     that was a mistake. several of them do black on black text

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:11:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I need to write a simple font engine. TIME ME

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:11:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     some very ugly python code using strings rather than some smart bitshifting code, but it worked first time.

     now I just need to wrap this up into a script that unpacks each file one by one, then converts each TIL, then merges them together into a spritesheet

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:11:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     mass-processing, I found a corrupted one! This is supposed to be "People on TV #2", but it crashes VIEWTILE (and my converter). Works in MJVGA31, but it does crash when you exit.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:12:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     PAL.CFG is simple: It's a 16-line text file, each line containing 3 numbers separated by spaces.

     As is common for VGA-only software, it's 6-bit VGA, so the RGB is 0-63 instead of 0-255

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:12:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the DRAFTSMN.DOC file explains some of the special palette entries:

     0 is used for the screen background
     1 is used for tile backgrounds
     7 is used for the tile edges
     11 is used for numbers
     15 is used for menus

     so really you get 11 colors.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:12:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The TIL files are 48x60, but the tiles are not. They're 44x60. The extra 4 columns of pixels are ignored

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:12:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so I'm building a tool to convert the tile files to PNGs.

     The files are TIS files, which are made of:
     1. one metadata string
     2. 44 TIL files.
     3. PAL.CFG

     There's PAKTIL.COM and UNPAKTIL.COM to separate out/rejoin the TIL files. So I gotta figure out how TIL files work.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:12:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it turns out they're a 6-byte header and then they're a 48x60 image, but they're vertically planar: The first row is the least significant bit, fourth row is the most significant bit, and so on.

     This indexes into the palette, which is stored in PAL.CFG

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 15:20:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it seems playable on chrome, but firefox barely lets you move the mouse where. that's a shame

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 15:20:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     much more playable (at least on my slow firefox) version here, by using the windows 3.1 version:
     https://archive.org/details/MJWINSOUP#

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 15:20:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I put it on the internet archive but it seems to be unplayably laggy in-browser:

     https://archive.org/details/mahjong_soup