I experimented with a feature letting you remap controls: otow4sBTzA4 This is very obviously work-in-progress, hence the "blah blah blah" and it only letting you modify keyboard controls right now. Should I try to finish this feature? And also, is this style of UI for it okay? That is, it ...

I don't remember ever encountering the issue as a kid so I must have been used to holding down keys for any action. But in more recent times as I've been bouncing between many different games (and 99% of games react to any button press, no matter how brief it is, and some games will also trigger dif...

I've got the problem fixed now. If anyone wants to test it, I've uploaded a build of my fork with the fix here: https://github.com/FluffyQuack/SDLPoP/releases Make sure to enter Settings->Gameplay and turn on "Enhanced mode" for the fix to take effect. I think this makes the controls feel ...

Finished writing the new PR which fixes dropped gamepad input and makes everything a toggle: https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/pull/294 List of changes: Replaced joy_axis size definition with a define. Added joy_axis_max array that stores the highest reached value for analogue gamepad inputs between g...

I tested the game in DosBox, and very brief keyboard and joystick input is dropped the same way there, so I think it's safe to say the original Dos release has the same issue. For the heck of it, I tested POP2 as well, and that also has the same issue. I can write a PR where I make it a toggle and a...

I've merged it. I further clarified the values of control_x and control_y: https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/commit/f22213b14e05a76bb36cb135f915ef8115e37f22 "CONTROL_HELD" and "CONTROL_HELD_ALTDIRECTION" just felt strange to me. That's a fair change. You can go ahead and delete th...

Another PR that simplifies some code related to controller input: https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/pull/292 I would have preferred to change this code to use bitflags or expand the value range the controller variables use (so it doesn't use 1 to signify different states depending on which specific co...

Here's a video example showing dropped input:


At the bottom part of the video you can see input as they're received by Windows (this is shown by another application).

Oh, doing it all by hand sounds pretty hardcore. It is interesting to see what the original source code most likely looked like. A very faithful reverse engineering is pretty neat from a historical standpoint as you get a good glimpse at how it was made originally. But yeah, simplifying the code doe...

I did a playthrough of SDL-PoP a few days ago. It was my first playthrough of POP in over a year and there's one thing that keeps bugging me, which is that the game will sometimes drop input. It happens very rarely, but it's often enough that I find it a bit annoying. I can remember experiencing it ...

I have merged it. I made some further cleanups, I linked to the commits from my comment on the PR. Those are good changes. Moving variable assignments outside expressions definitely makes the code a lot more readable. I assume that was originally the result of automatic decompilation? A part of me ...

https://twitter.com/princeofpersia/status/1577327725391519746/photo/1 It's not much of a celebration, but it's nice to see them acknowledge where the series started. And the new header they made for their account is neat: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/1256252724129206274/1664813092/1500x500

I might do even more refactoring like this. Feel free to! I made another PR but I may have gone a bit overboard: https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/pull/291 It's basically a ton of small changes: Renamed a bunch of var_# variables. Removed vsync argument from a bunch of functions related to palette co...

I have tried that in the past: https://forum.princed.org/viewtopic.php?f=126&t=3810 As you can see on the screenshot, it basically worked. The only problem is that certain image resources don't contain what SDLPoP expects. For example, instead of the blue stripe there is the right half of a flo...

It would require a lot of code changes as render coordinates for objects are hardcoded. You mention a wall being 32x60 in size, but it's actually 32x63. The bottom 3 pixel rows are part of another texture. So 64x126 is exactly 2x2 times the size of the DOS wall tile. If all Mac assets are 2x2 in siz...