Custom colors
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:04 pm
So I've been poking around the games a lot lately, trying to make patches since I don't have time to mod. While doing so for Bubzrulz I found some Galaxy code that was very similar to Vorticons code. Specifically in how it handled graphics.Even more specifically it would allow me to easily change the EGA colors, which I hadn't bothered to even attempt since earlier questions on this topic had resulted in someone linking a program that manually changed colors before the game even loaded. So I had assumed it was very difficult.
In fact it is not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFZJ12VyX4
As such this patch allows you to change the 16 default colors used in Keen 4:
The patch for Keen 5 can be found here: http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Patch:P ... olor_patch and Keen 6 and Dreams too can be altered in such a way, I'm just too lazy to do so right now.
In fact it is not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFZJ12VyX4
As such this patch allows you to change the 16 default colors used in Keen 4:
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#This is the color palette: 16 entries of r, g, b (each 0–63)
%patch $2EE74
00 00 00 #Black
00 00 42 #Blue
00 42 00 #Green
00 42 42 #Cyan
42 00 00 #Red
42 00 42 #Magenta
42 21 00 #Brown
42 42 42 #Bright grey
21 21 21 #Grey
21 21 63 #Bright blue
21 63 21 #Bright green
21 63 63 #Bright cyan
63 21 21 #Bright red
63 21 63 #Bright magenta/pink
63 63 21 #Yellow
63 63 63 #White
#Set the palette
%patch $3CE5 $90 $90
%patch $1D130 $9A $037D0526RL
%patch $3CF6 $B8 $000DW $10CDW $B8 $1012W $B9 $0008W $BB $0000W $8C $DA
$8E $C2 $BA $0004W $10CDW $BB $0018W $BA $001CW $10CDW $CB