Animated banners: Good or bad?

DOSGuy · **Joined:** September 2nd, 2005, 9:28 pm **Posts:** 470

Are the animated banners in the Classic DOS Games title awesome or distracting?

ThreeHeadedMonkey · **Posted:** March 16th, 2009, 1:52 am

Quite nice! I like them.

Qbix · **Joined:** October 31st, 2007, 8:43 am **Posts:** 38

Nice retro feel to it

that bombing thing is a bit overkill on my widescreen monitor though.

Calvero · **Joined:** January 7th, 2008, 7:55 am **Posts:** 19

How did you create those animated banners?

DOSGuy · **Joined:** September 2nd, 2005, 9:28 pm **Posts:** 470

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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