Terry Butler

MOD Monday #52

Terry — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:04:49 +0000

Here is “Bootlegger Megamix” by Flash of the group Bootlegger.

MOD Monday #51

Terry — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:03:36 +0000

This is technically MOD Monday’s 1st Year anniversary, seeing as though we started appropriately at #0

I’ve always tried to upload the mod files that I find reflect what I personally love listening to and you’ll find me virtually playing on repeat.

However, after a whole year, finding these gems has become harder and harder. I’ve even been going through the entire MODArchive 2007 snapshot collection for the last year listening to music and I’m only up to E and while I’ve saved a little over 1,300 mod files from that massive collection so far, only a small fraction of those I want to listen to and then again, just a tiny fraction of those would I want to post.

While I’m trying to find mods to post, at this stage, some weeks, the MOD Monday posting may be somewhat deferred as a result of just not having something to post that week!

This is why I ask anybody who has a mod file they really like to tell me about it via e-mail or via comment so as to help me find some new music

Without further ado, this is “*cHarLeS aTLaS iS Me!!!*” by Bass System (Feborron).

There is little information on this author, so as always I implore the original author or anybody else with information to shed light on who they are!

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MOD Monday #50

Terry — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:02:00 +0000

Here is “Firebreathing Giant” by Felix Lindgren.

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MOD Monday #49

Terry — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:09:00 +0000

Here is “Doom Trooper” by Cyn.

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MOD Monday #48

Terry — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:42:08 +0000

Here is “Don’t Mess With Us” by Deejay Jones

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Must-Have Heroes of Might and Magic III Patches

Terry — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:56:47 +0000

Here are some patches for Heroes of Might and Magic III that I’ve stumbled across.

Heroes 3 HD – HoMM3 High Resolution Project (Download)

This is a fantastic patch that allows you to run Heroes of Might and Magic III at pretty much any resolution that you desire. It even works fine at up to my native 2048×1152 resolution for me.

In the second image, you can see a small map practically being displayed at once at such a high resolution. I personally run the game in 1280×800 so that it doesn’t knock the shit out of my eyesight

As you can see from the images below, the game remains at standard Heroes of Might and Magic III size, you just get to see more of it. Excellent!

32BitPatch (32-Bit Patch for Heroes of Might and Magic III) (Download)

Personally, I like to play Heroes of Might and Magic III in a window without having to change the desktop to 16-bit and avoid the annoying 65536 colours limitation

This handy utility allows you to paly Might and Magic III in a window while also having the desktop remain in 32-bit colour.

Apparently this utility can be used in conjuction with the Heroes 3 HD patch from above, but it only crashed for me. I take it that it’s outdated, which is a shame. Larger resolutions in a windowed mode would be great

HTML5 Quake II MD2 Model Loader and Renderer

Terry — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:38:15 +0000

Hot on the heels of my PHP MD2 renderer that loads a Quake II MD2 model file and renders and rotates the model in 3D, I decided that it was clunky and to take advantage of new techniques in browsers

I present an HTML5 based Quake II MD2 model loader and renderer that I wrote to demonstrate file reading and canvases.

(Click Image to View HTML5 MD2 Renderer)

Notes

I used the BinaryReader which was refactored by Vjeux although I had to slightly refactor it myself as I had problems getting floats to read properly. I quickly wrote my own function for calculating the IEE 754 Single precision floats rather than modify the function as doing it from scratch was quicker in the end, either way, it gave me the result I was after.

I also made use of the MD2 file format specification document by David Henry because I’m nowhere near smart enough to remember the headers every time I do an MD2 reader

This demo will not work in Internet Explorer 8 or less. Use Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera. They are all far better choices.

MOD Monday #47

Terry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:46:05 +0000

Here is a rendition of the main theme from the Atari version of the game “Draconus” by Graff Tatanka.

The original music was by Adam Gilmore.

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PHP MD2 Model Viewer

Terry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:05:16 +0000

Not much to say except that this is a PHP script that loads an MD2 file server side (You have a choice between Quad Damage and Space Marine models). The script parses the data and outputs it to a GDImage as a wireframe model.

This was just for fun and I hope it doesn’t prove to be too heavy for my host’s servers.

You can update the model’s rotation manually or click the auto update checkbox to have it perform one complete 360 degree rotation.

Angle:

Auto Update:
(Do one complete 360 degree rotation)

Model:

Darken Javascript Bookmarklet Update

Terry — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:13:37 +0000

This is just a simple modification of the Javascript bookmarklet called “Darken” by Gina Trapani. No idea if it had already been updated or not, but here’s the list of what I changed for anybody interested:

Running the bookmarklet multiple times toggles the darken effect on and off! Saves refreshing the page
Changed the colour scheme to green text
Added hover effect for links
Changed link colour and added underline to differentiate links
Changed link visited colour
Only uses the appendChild method as that’s all the Browsers I use support (Opera, IE9, Firefox, Chrome)

javascript: (function (){var newSS, styles = '* { background-color: black ! important; color: green !important; }a:link, a:link * { color: green !important; text-style: underline; }a:visited, a:visited * { color: #7f0000 !important; }a:hover, a:hover * { color: red !important; }';var elemHead = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];var elemCSS = document.getElementById("darkenCSS");if (elemCSS){elemHead.removeChild(elemCSS);}else{newSS = document.createElement('link');newSS.rel = 'stylesheet';newSS.href = 'data:text/css,' + escape(styles);newSS.id = "darkenCSS";elemHead.appendChild(newSS);}})();