jjohn's Profile
I'm an independent contract programmer who's a big fan of Seth's work, starting with L.O.R.D. More than you'll ever want to know about me can be found on my web site.
joseph_c_johnston@yahoo.com
http://taskboy.com
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Howdy,
I'm starting to piece together all the tutorials and whatnot on dmods. WinDinkEdit is just great (but for two nits: no app-specific help file and no mention that pressing "E" in sprite mode brings up the available sprites). Thanks to SimonK for the video tut which pointed out many of the "undocumented" features of WinDinkEdit.
Seth is clearly a genius, if not somewhat a mad one.
I know that some brave souls here have been hacking the Dink source code. Any chance MP3s could be used as background sounds instead of the screamingly awesome format of MIDI files?
I mean, I enjoy listening to my laptop's awful synth as much as anyone for hours at a stretch. Don't get me wrong...
It seems that if Dink is running on a machine using a modern DirectX, there's got to be a function for playing mp3s by now. Microsoft isn't *that* slow.
Here's a tutorial I found on the subject:
http://www.andypike.com/tutorials/directx8/013.asp
Miles upon miles of smiles,
--Joe
I'm starting to piece together all the tutorials and whatnot on dmods. WinDinkEdit is just great (but for two nits: no app-specific help file and no mention that pressing "E" in sprite mode brings up the available sprites). Thanks to SimonK for the video tut which pointed out many of the "undocumented" features of WinDinkEdit.
Seth is clearly a genius, if not somewhat a mad one.
I know that some brave souls here have been hacking the Dink source code. Any chance MP3s could be used as background sounds instead of the screamingly awesome format of MIDI files?
I mean, I enjoy listening to my laptop's awful synth as much as anyone for hours at a stretch. Don't get me wrong...
It seems that if Dink is running on a machine using a modern DirectX, there's got to be a function for playing mp3s by now. Microsoft isn't *that* slow.
Here's a tutorial I found on the subject:
http://www.andypike.com/tutorials/directx8/013.asp
Miles upon miles of smiles,
--Joe
jjohn has written 6 reviews
| Title | File | Type | Score | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| At the Risk of Shocking Dinkers Here | Land of Transforming Ducks | Normal |  1.0 | February 28th, 2006 |
| Very Interesting Idea | Fairy Goodness Online | Normal |  5.0 | February 28th, 2006 |
| This Dmod Made Me Laugh Out Loud Several Times | Search for Milli Vanilli (The) | Normal |  7.0 | February 28th, 2006 |
| I Really Enjoyed the Idea of Blob Taking the Dink Engine And Making an Arcade Game Out of it | Bloop the Fish 2 | Normal | 5.0 | February 28th, 2006 |
| A Good Little Tool For Cheating^Wtesting Dmods | Save Game Editor of Justice | Normal | 8.0 | February 27th, 2006 |
| This is a Very Original Dmod | Cycles of Evil | Normal | 7.5 | February 27th, 2006 |
