Dreamcast specific HTML scripts

[Anonymouse]

With the continued rise in people getting their Dreamcast back online I am pondering the idea of making a website that is fully optimised for the Dreamcast in regards to speed and usability. I have looked on the Blue Swirl website and noticed that there was a few online tools to generate HTML specific scripts for displaying text on the VMU and activating rumble on the controllers. I dont have full access to the internet as I am offshore so cant view these actual pages to see the code.

Does anyone know any other Dreamcast specific HTML scripts and have any examples of their use online?

[Jenkins]

If my memory (and backups) served me well:

<embed type="application/x-dreamcast-lcdticker" name="vmu1" text="dreamcast forever" ScrollDelay="200" scrollammount="10" font="26" direction="left" loop="infinite" behavior="slide" hidden="true"> </embed>


<embed type="application/x-dreamcast-vibrate" name="vmu1vib" loop="5" freq="10" power="5" on="800ms" off="300ms" hidden="true" autostart="false">

There are a few more script.

[Nz17]

Here's all the markup tags and documentation that I know of for the Dreamcast's browser-specific extensions:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100315053 ... /browsers/

[Xiden]

make your website 600 in width for a perfect fit

http://www.dreamcastarena.com/how-to-cr ... e-friendly

If you want, me , dan, jial , and roareye could use extra help brining dc sites back up

[Anonymouse]

make your website 600 in width for a perfect fit

http://www.dreamcastarena.com/how-to-cr ... e-friendly

If you want, me , dan, jial , and roareye could use extra help brining dc sites back up

Thank you all for your reply.

I am wanting to look into making a website that is more like an extension to the Dreamcast user interface than a 'website'. One that brings all the online feature into one place, rather like Xbox Live. I will use frames so that only the body needs to be loaded, the navigation and user login will be always present on the screen - this will drastically improve speed but will also make it only properly viewable on the DC as it will be resolution dependant.

Ideally I plan to include:
-User login that is IP specific so you will automatically be logged in when you visit with your DC.
-Upload/download of VMU files, with the ability to make them public or private
-VMU tools (like Blue Swirl website)
-colate all the different game upload scores into one place.
-user stats, achievements...
-game scheduling
-connection with DC now to always see how many users are online
-

I could incorporate VMU HTML code so it could beep (if possible) or/and display an image on the VMU when a user comes online. This could be game specific so that is plays a different sound depending on which game the user as loggerd into. Ideally it would be nice if I could load up the website and leave the Dreamcast running so that I can watch TV or do other things until I hear my VMU beep when a user comes online. It will be displayed on the VMU screen so I dont need to have the Dreamcast TV screen on all the time.

This will be a long work in progress that I will need to trial and error test what is feasibly possible. It has also been a while since I have done coding for the web so I will need to brush up on that too. Don't expect anything soon. Little by little.

I return home in 5 weeks so will not start until then.

[Roareye]

The DC can show full SD resolution background Jpegs and gifs (but not pngs). You can go higher in resolution, but tbf you only need to add height, as width maxed out at 600 pixels.
However the DC will only load Jpegs 40kb or less so full screen images will have to be heavily compressed. Also if you get near the top end of the file size sometimes it will load a more compressed variant. So keeping to 35kb is the general rule.

You're probably better off with a large height artwork (gif for transparency) with a bold colour in the background, and break your pages in segments like this. It'll reduce loading times and issues on the DC.

[Anonymouse]

I plan on using as little images as possible. The body frame will be styled through creative use of tables and style sheets with fonts. This will be more than adequate. I plan on the body frame pages to be no more than 10KB. The navigtion frame can have more detail as it only needs to be loaded once. I may also be able to to load commonly used images into an invisible frame so that they are always in the DC RAM and dont need to be reloaded each time a page is changed. I did this approach when I had a DC website back in 2001, it worked out fine.

[fallout]

Vibrate on mouse over link

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<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
 Dreamcast = (navigator.platform.indexOf('Dreamcast')!=-1)
   if(Dreamcast){
     var vibHtml=''
          +'<EMBED TYPE=application/x-dreamcast-vibrate '
          +'       NAME="prupru0"  '
          +'       AUTOSTART=false '
          +'       POWER=7         '
          +'       FREQ=10         '
          +'       ONESHOT         '
          +'       LOOP=1          '
          +'       ON="500ms"      '
          +'       OFF="100ms"     '
          +'       HIDDEN=true     '
          +'>                      '
      document.write(vibHtml)
    }
  function doVib(n,v) {
    if(Dreamcast){
      document.embeds[n].vibrate=v ;
    }
  }
//-->
</script>
<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com" onMouseOver="doVib('prupru0',1)" target="_blank"><img src="./image.png" width="xx" height="xx" alt="Made with Ubuntu"></a>

Display image on vmu

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<script language="JavaScript">     
<!--     
Dreamcast=(navigator.platform.indexOf('Dreamcast')!=-1);     
if(Dreamcast){     
lcdimg='<embed type=application/x-dreamcast-lcdimg src="http://fallout.bplaced.net/quake3dc/doom.lcd" hidden=true>';     
document.write(lcdimg)     
}     
//-->     
</script>  

Play midi music

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<embed src="./shenmue_agony.mid" autostart="true" loop="false" hidden="true" width="50" height="20" type="audio/x-midi"></embed>

Display text on vmu screen

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<!-- ### Start Dreamcast VMU Message bar Scroller ### -->
<script language="javascript"> 
<!--
var i=0; var msg="";
var m1="Welcome"; 
var m2="to";
var m3="www.quakedc.6x.to"; 
function playtext() 
{ 
setTimeout("playtext()",250); 
window.status=msg.substring(i,msg.length)+msg.substring (0, i) 
if(i++==msg.length)i=0; } msg=m1+m2+m3; playtext();
//--> 
</script>
<!-- ### End Dreamcast VMU Message bar Scroller ### -->

[Anonymouse]

Thank you so much Fallout. This is exactly what im looking for.

[cypressRU]

Can anyone suggest an HTML editor that will work with this?