You've made me dizzy with all the to-weeks-delays
and stuff... when will Verge3 be released?

And how can you play a game without music? You said
somewhere that MIDI files won't be usable and I can't
make mp3 songs without a 2000$ keyboard. Ugh... or am
I just stupid?

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:You've made me dizzy with all the to-weeks-delays
:and stuff... when will Verge3 be released?

When it's released, and not before. :)
Seriously, no one knows for certain, not even the dev-team, so don't ask. The 2-week delay is on top of everything else they still had left to do.

:And how can you play a game without music? You said
:somewhere that MIDI files won't be usable and I can't
:make mp3 songs without a 2000$ keyboard. Ugh... or am
:I just stupid?

VERGE does not now and will not ever support MIDI. However, it supports similar types known collectively as MODs. Have a look at ModPlug Tracker (http://www.modplug.com) and poke around with it. If your keyboard has built-in midi support (most recent ones do), you can even use it to record your song in MOD format (XM or IT to be specific). I personally don't recommend using MP3s as background music, as they take up a LOT of cpu time anyway, but there are programs that can convert midis to wavs (which can then be MP3 compressed) - Have a look at timidity (http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/timidity/), and the most recent WinAmp (http://www.winamp.com).

:eh... another stupid question:
:Will it be able to make that cool anti aliasing
:thing -or what it's called- that makes the sprites
:fade into each other? You know, the thing that Super
:Nintendo emulator, Zsnes does.

It's called translucency, and yes, it will. Most versions of V2 already support this. Try V2k+j(dos) and V2.6r5(win) for the best support. Plus, V3 should have even BETTER support for it. You can find out how to use it by reading what few docs there are available (links, anyone?).

Hope this helps.

Arek
(webmaster@verge-net.com)

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:Thanks, Arek. Though it wasn't translucency I meant.
:It's like this thing that makes the sprites softer or
:something. Isn't translucent stuff that you can "see
:through"? I'm not American so my english is a bit
:rusty...

You mean anti-aliasing? I can't say for certain if V3 will or won't support it, but it might not be too hard to implement yourself. And you can acheive that effect (sometimes considerably better than your video card) by using a good graphics program to process your images/maps before converting them to VERGE-compatible formats. Also, I don't know if V3 will support running a game in a higher resolution than it was designed for (this is mostly why SNES emulators support anti-aliasing), but if it does, it'll probably support some sort of anti-aliasing.

Hope this helps.

Arek
(webmaster@verge-net.com)

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Yeah. I think V3 will be a really cool program.
If it uses C-based code, it should be possible to
make multiplayer games like Secret of Mana, right?

And thanks for the links to the mod-thing. They
helped me to make my midi songs to that file-thing,
though it sounds a bit better in midi-format (I'm
not that good at the whole mod-thing yet.).

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