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Do you like the new animated title banners?
Yes 67%  67%  [ 4 ]
No 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Meh 33%  33%  [ 2 ]
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DOSGuy
 Post subject: Animated banners: Good or bad?
PostPosted: March 15th, 2009, 2:43 pm 
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Are the animated banners in the Classic DOS Games title awesome or distracting?

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ThreeHeadedMonkey
 Post subject: Re: Animated banners: Good or bad?
PostPosted: March 16th, 2009, 1:52 am 
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Quite nice! I like them.

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Qbix
 Post subject: Re: Animated banners: Good or bad?
PostPosted: March 17th, 2009, 5:31 am 
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Nice retro feel to it


that bombing thing is a bit overkill on my widescreen monitor though.
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Calvero
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PostPosted: April 7th, 2009, 6:09 am 
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How did you create those animated banners?
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DOSGuy
 Post subject: Re: Animated banners: Good or bad?
PostPosted: April 8th, 2009, 7:04 pm 
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I recorded myself playing the games, then I used VirtualDub to select short sections and convert them to animated GIFs, then I used The GIMP to compress them. I was aiming for a hard limit of 60 KB for each file in order to keep the bandwidth usage reasonable and keep load times reasonable for dial-up users. I made some pretty good GIFs that ended up being in the 100 KB range and didn't make the cut. Maybe someday.

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