{"id":207,"date":"2006-02-21T17:38:51","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T01:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=207"},"modified":"2008-09-16T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T21:23:25","slug":"sdl-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/sdl-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"SDL Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pursuant to Alex’s challenge to write a Unix player for Trixter’s 8088 Corruption<\/em> data file<\/a>, combined with an interest in re-learning the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)<\/a> API, I wrote a basic program that takes said data file, a font file, and the hardwired colors in the CGA card<\/a> and renders the video using SDL. I don’t think the font vectors I scavenged are 100% the same as the ones in Trixter’s IBM model 5150 PC:<\/p>\n


\n\"Eiffel
\n<\/center><\/p>\n

In particular, I’m not sure about all of those box characters. I think the box is supposed to be one flat color. Anyway, here is another shot, only from the “Tron light cycles” section of video:<\/p>\n


\n\"Tron
\n<\/center><\/p>\n

Followed up in SDL Corruption Corrected<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pursuant to Alex’s challenge to write a Unix player for Trixter’s 8088 Corruption data file, combined with an interest in re-learning the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) API, I wrote a basic program that takes said data file, a font file, and the hardwired colors in the CGA card and renders the video using SDL. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outlandish-brainstorms","category-reverse-engineering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t