Gath, dev diary or something

[Saulot]

Never heard of spooky sprites. What is the program you use to draw the sprites, KO?

[Endoperez]

Saulot said:
Never heard of spooky sprites. What is the program you use to draw the sprites, KO?

In-house program developed by JK, originally for Atari ST or something. From Google groups archives, comp.sys.atari.announce:

Johan Karlsson Aug 12 1995, 10:00 am

Spooky Sprites is a true colour sprite creator for atari falcon. It's freeware and has been uploaded to ftp.cnam.fr.

Some of the changes from the the last version are:

The largest change is that you can use the sprite editor in double pixel mode (768*240) if you use a rgb monitor or tv. The video mode is changed in the preferences menu. Switching between ntsc and pal on rgb now works as it's supposed to do (you cannot do this on vga monitors). Doubling and halving of sprite width is now implemented. This allows you to convert medium resolution sprites to low res and vice versa. New paste mode Merge. Pictures can now be saved in a run length encoded format. Faster sprite loading. Flood fill added. Can be installed as TRS application and load sprite files automatically. You may now create a picture containing all sprites. Some multitasking during the most time consuming operations. Lots of minor bugs removed.

Hope you like it!

Johan

[Saulot]

Huh. Interesting.

Followup questions:
Do you recommend it?
Is it available to the public?
Would it work on XP?

[Kristoffer O]

I do not recommend it, since there is no documentation whatsoever. But it is a quite good sprite program. At least when you are used to it. Gabriella got an intro and used it when she made the Bogarus sprites, and she said she liked it. So it might not be that bad.

It is not available.

It works on linux. Once there was a windows version, but it was never used IIRC.

[Saulot]

Had the answers been yes, yes, and yes I would have given it a try.

Ah well, I'll use gimp to scrape by.

Thanks for the reply.

[Kristoffer O]

Ha! I'm fininshed!

All in all there seems to be exactly 100 new unit entries. A few are different shapes of the same monsters, but still, 100

Soon beta testing will begin. I imagine there will be some balancing to do. The earlier Rephaim might pose some problems, since there are few units to compare them with. Fomorians and Niefel Giants come closest I suspect.

[Chris_Byler]

Is there a new member of the 500 Club to compete with Niefel Jarls, Fomorian Kings and Dai Oni?