 | Spelling Error & Major Mac Frustration |
| Posted By: poena.dare #CP# | Date: 10/13/02 5:25 a.m. |
| In Response To: Re: Found Delivery: Another Term (Scifiteki)
: Ah, is there supposed to be chapter screen at the end of that link?
: Becuase I can't get to it. And put that music stuff in soon! : )
misspelled a link... the Counterattack chapter screen is now visible.
"Original" Music:
I've had the worst luck with my 7600. After I cannibalized the floppy drive from another Mac, I was able to get the midi files to it via sneakernet. My Mac has Quicktime 2.5 installed so I can hear the music just like it was way back when.
But that's about as far as I can go. I hooked up an Ethernet cable to it and it refused to "catch" an IP address from my hub or even the cable modem. I even went as far as to download DISK IMAGES (!) of Open Transport 1.1.2 and upgrade the software. No luck. (How do you know if the built-in Ethernet has gone bad?)
So, the steps I would have to take to convert the Marathon midi files to mp3 are now in the realm of the ridiculous. I'm looking for someone with their act together more than me to do this. Hell, if someone could just rip the midis to WAV or AIFF and send them to me, I can take it from there.
*sigh*
Well, at lest the terms look right. Ghôlsbane and I went round and round about which display font is best: Courier or Courier New. I've now got a bit of JavaScript in there that gives Mac users Courier and PC users Courier New. So far it seems everybody is happy.
(Dept of Insane Methods)
Trying to figure out the changing time string in the term headers caused me to dig through the Marathon 2 source code. I found this:
/* I'll use this function, almost untouched.. */
static get_date_string(
char *date_string)
{
char temp_string[101];
long seconds, game_time_passed;
DateTimeRec converted_date;
struct tm game_time;
/* Treat the date as if it were recent. */
game_time_passed= LONG_MAX - dynamic_world->game_information.game_time_remaining;
seconds = 2882914937;
/* convert the game seconds to machine seconds */
seconds += (game_time_passed/TICKS_PER_SECOND)*MACINTOSH_TICKS_PER_SECOND;
Secs2Date(seconds, &converted_date);
game_time.tm_sec= converted_date.second;
game_time.tm_min= converted_date.minute;
game_time.tm_hour= converted_date.hour;
game_time.tm_mday= converted_date.day;
game_time.tm_mon= converted_date.month-1;
game_time.tm_year= 437;
game_time.tm_wday= converted_date.dayOfWeek;
game_time.tm_yday= 0;
game_time.tm_isdst= 0;
getcstr(temp_string, strCOMPUTER_LABELS, _date_format);
strftime(date_string, 100, temp_string, &game_time);
}
Note: game_time.tm_year= 437. 1900 (old Mac clock time base) + 437 = 2337, which is the last (right most) number you see in the headers. If this is supposed to be the *real* game year, then Bungie's dates are well off, 'cause the Marathon was attacked on 07/25/2794 (457 years later).
Other then that, I'm not sure I could reduce their code down to something that would be similar in JavaScript.
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