The Southsider

Hi Chris.

 

Works great. How about blinking the piece of shield after a shoot colision? In the original they reduce the bright of the vector line, you know.

 

Do you going to use the Thrust filled space ship or it's a place holder? Can I make new ship graphics based on the original?

Hi Ivan,

 

Thanks for the comments. I'm not sure I have enough spare cycles to blink the shield, but I'll see. It is a pity that the colour brightness can't be changed, but it was already a real struggle to get the 3 ring colours to display!

 

The Thrust sprite and the rotating gun at the centre are just place holders. Nathan has kindly said that he will work on them, but I'm sure he wouldn't mind you stepping in as he is rather busy at the moment.

 

The ship sprite has 32 rotation positions and is limited to 8 pixels width. The height is currently 8 pixels (2LK) but that is not fixed. The gun sprite currently has 16 rotation positions (it would be nice if this could be increased) and is also limited to 8 pixels wide.

 

Thanks,

Chris

This looks awesome. Just wanted to share my support!

The Thrust sprite and the rotating gun at the centre are just place holders. Nathan has said that he will work on them, but I'm sure he wouldn't mind you stepping in as he is rather busy at the moment.

 

If Nathan is going to produce the sprites, they are on good hands.

 

About the blink shield parts, I forgot it's already using fliker, will not looks good certainly.

Very, Very Nice! I can't wait to try on real hardware.

This looks great - really, really wonderful job!

I think the shot sometimes does not touch the centre but it still "explodes" = flashes the screen

 

see this - it flashes but no collision between shot and the object:

 

Thanks for the complements - they are keeping me motivated to work on this!

 

maiki - well spotted - the collision detection for the centre gun is done using an 8x8 bounding box. However, the gun sprite is only 7x7 in that position. I'll tighten up the bounds when the real gun sprite is implemented.

Just tried your latest build, it looks great.

Planning on making this game 16k? If it ends up being 12k, wouldn't it work only on a Supercharger?

Fantastic update!

It uses CBS RAM+ bankswitching (not Supercharger) which gives 256 bytes of extra RAM. It can be released on a melody board when it is completed.

 

Chris

Planning on making this game 16k? If it ends up being 12k, wouldn't it work only on a Supercharger?

SC is 6K RAM + 2K ROM containing the boot screen & load routines. All of the RAM is writable via an indirect process. The RAM is also three 2K banks, but there are restrictions on the bank combinations.

It uses CBS RAM+ bankswitching (not Supercharger) which gives 256 bytes of extra RAM. It can be released on a melody board when it is completed.

 

Hurry!

is getting closer!