Norbert wrote: ↑March 2nd, 2023, 7:55 pmBut in practice, SDLPoP's use of the original game's code [...] makes modding very difficult.

A related obstacle are the nondescript image filenames, by the way.
(And that playtesting via apoplexy won't show data/ changes without deleting DAT files. )

That's where the problem comes in... I am using SDLPop... You're using SDLPoP for playtesting, but you are not modding SDLPoP. :) To mod SDLPoP instead of the DOS port, change the images in SDLPoP's data/ directory. If you want changes to show up when using apoplexy, also delete the related DAT fil...

Prince Of Apollia wrote: ↑March 30th, 2023, 1:23 pm[...], but I only have 17 or less colors

The DOS port works with indexed palettes only; you can't use RGB.
You can, however, use SDLPoP instead, which will continue to work fine even with custom RGB images.

Funny.

Even without seeing John Wick 4, I know I'll mostly agree with Shapiro's review of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1bnG55XCrE

He's currently adding his 1993 journals, which include PoP2 stuff.
The first part (January-March) is already online.
The rest follows the coming weeks.
https://www.jordanmechner.com/library/1993-journals/

Prince Of Apollia wrote: ↑March 19th, 2023, 1:25 pm Thanks, just how to I hex-edit prince.exe? Is there any tool for this on popot.org?

If you already use apoplexy, you can press F12 on its main screen.
If you prefer to use a stand-alone program, see the how-to for wxHexEditor.

Midjourney 5 is impressive.

Norbert wrote: ↑February 11th, 2023, 9:39 amAnd he's using a new header; also attached.

Larger version attached; source.

I want to play this mod You can: For those interested in playing the mod, emulator FCEUX can be used (on Linux, "sudo apt install fceux"; on Windows, see downloads ). Use "f" to jump and "d" to make small steps. Download link of the mod itself at the bottom of the firs...

Norbert wrote: ↑March 7th, 2021, 3:51 pm Happy birthday poirot.

And 41 now, time flies.

Is there any way to raise a gate when a guard is killed, or make my own special activities like the skeleton shadow that drops gate... Hi. Prince of Persia has "special events", see the PDF here . Some of these special events can be modified by creating a custom PRINCE.EXE with CusPop . B...

spartacus735 wrote: ↑March 5th, 2023, 12:06 am[...] graduated.

Congratulations.

Rant time: [...] Basically this: It's not just the difficulty. It's also that people who have the skills necessary for such a project have generally reached a phase in their lives where their spare time has become much more limited. They may have full time work, either a job or thesis/dissertation,...

From here.