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[Mordekai]

These samples are fantastic! Thanks for making these available.

M.

[CurtisP]

Animan, on Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:46 AM, said:

Can anyone show me how to make a scrolling playfield?

Horizontal or Vertical Scroll?

[Animan]

CurtisP, on Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:46 PM, said:

Animan, on Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:46 AM, said:

Can anyone show me how to make a scrolling playfield?

Horizontal or Vertical Scroll?

Nevermind, i know how it's done.

[disjaukifa]

I know this is probably going to be complicated, but I am making a Galxian/Space Invaders game called Earth Invaders, and I have my ship, I have the play field, I have the missile . . . well I don't have the missile working yet but hope to soon.

Here is what I have yet to figure out, how exactly do I make the enemys??? Also if someone could send me a link that explains frames that would be helpful!!!!

Thanks
Disjaukifa

Edited by disjaukifa, Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:56 PM.

[endrien]

This might sound a fair bit "Noobish" but how can you combine these codes? Any time I try add missiles to movement it doesn't work..

[Atarius Maximus]

endrien, on Sat Oct 3, 2009 5:34 AM, said:

This might sound a fair bit "Noobish" but how can you combine these codes? Any time I try add missiles to movement it doesn't work..

I know your post was 5 months ago, but I can work on combining a few of the samples, yes. I just posted another sample that demonstrates how to use bankswitching.

Steve

[Atarius Maximus]

Atarius Maximus, on Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:22 AM, said:

endrien, on Sat Oct 3, 2009 5:34 AM, said:

This might sound a fair bit "Noobish" but how can you combine these codes? Any time I try add missiles to movement it doesn't work..

I know your post was 5 months ago, but I can work on combining a few of the samples, yes. I just posted another sample that demonstrates how to use bankswitching.

Steve

As requested, I added another demo file (#14 in the first post) that shows how to combine a moving animated player sprite with the ability to fire in any direction, including diagonally.

Steve

[Atarius Maximus]

I added another sample to the first post (#15). This one demostrates collision detection for a player sprite inside of a room from all directions. It's really simple and efficient. The code was actually pulled from the old "move around rooms" demo from SeaGtGruff - it's great code and I've used it in several of my games.

Steve

[Cliff Friedel]

Anyone happen to have an example of a sound system subroutine that can be called from a main loop? The only way I can think of doing this would be to have the sound registers, a duration, the voice it belongs to (0 or 1)and then having it do something like

subroutine
if a = 1 then read data : load sound registers for voice
if a=duration variable then turn off audv0 or audv1 : a = 0 : return
a = a + 1
return

This seems like it would work, but I figured I would ask before trying it and wasting time (and bytes). Any other ideas?

Cliff

[Random Terrain]

Cliff Friedel, on Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:43 PM, said:

Anyone happen to have an example of a sound system subroutine that can be called from a main loop? The only way I can think of doing this would be to have the sound registers, a duration, the voice it belongs to (0 or 1)and then having it do something like

subroutine
if a = 1 then read data : load sound registers for voice
if a=duration variable then turn off audv0 or audv1 : a = 0 : return
a = a + 1
return

This seems like it would work, but I figured I would ask before trying it and wasting time (and bytes). Any other ideas?

Cliff

You mean like the kind of thing that the Music and Sound Editor can create? Right now it creates code using sdata, based on the Music Starter using sdata, but after the next update it will also create code that uses regular data if you want that will look like this:

   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *
   rem  *  Music Starter using data
   rem  *
   rem  *  Based on code posted in the Ballblazer thread at AtariAge:
   rem  *  http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=130990&view=findpost&p=1615280
   rem  *
   rem  *  Code adapted by Duane Alan Hahn (Random Terrain)
   rem  *
   rem  *  Explanation:
   rem  *  This has a 256-byte limitation.
   rem  *
   rem  *****************************************************


   set smartbranching on


   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Create aliases for variables
   rem  *****************************************************
   dim duration=a
   dim rand16=z


   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Variable descriptions
   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  duration - how long each note plays
   rem  *  x - data counter
   rem  *  rand16 - makes better random numbers


   rem  *  Volume off
   AUDV0=0
   AUDV1=0


   rem  *  Initialize duration and data counter
   duration = 1 : x = 0




   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *
   rem  *  Main game loop starts here.
   rem  *
   rem  *****************************************************
MainLoop

   goto GetMusic
GotMusic

   drawscreen

   goto MainLoop




   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Music
   rem  *****************************************************
GetMusic

   rem  *  Check for end of current note
   duration = duration - 1
   if duration>0 then GotMusic


   rem  *  Retrieve channel 0 data
   temp4 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp5 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp6 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1


   rem  *  Check for end of data
   if temp4=255 then duration = 1 : x = 0 : goto GotMusic


   rem  *  Play channel 0
   AUDV0 = temp4
   AUDC0 = temp5
   AUDF0 = temp6


   rem  *  Retrieve channel 1 data
   temp4 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp5 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp6 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1


   rem  *  Play channel 1
   AUDV1 = temp4
   AUDC1 = temp5
   AUDF1 = temp6


   rem  *  Set duration
   duration = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   goto GotMusic




   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Music Data Block
   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Format:
   rem  *  v,c,f (channel 0)
   rem  *  v,c,f (channel 1) 
   rem  *  d
   rem  *
   rem  *  Explanation:
   rem  *  v - volume (0 to 15)
   rem  *  c - control [a.k.a. tone, voice, and distortion] (0 to 15)
   rem  *  f - frequency (0 to 31)
   rem  *  d - duration


   data musicData
   8,12,29
   0,0,0
   15
   2,12,29
   0,0,0
   8
   8,12,19
   0,0,0
   15
   2,12,19
   0,0,0
   8
   8,12,17
   0,0,0
   15
   2,12,17
   0,0,0
   8

   255
end
   goto GotMusic

[Cliff Friedel]

Random Terrain, on Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:52 PM, said:

Cliff Friedel, on Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:43 PM, said:

Anyone happen to have an example of a sound system subroutine that can be called from a main loop? The only way I can think of doing this would be to have the sound registers, a duration, the voice it belongs to (0 or 1)and then having it do something like

subroutine
if a = 1 then read data : load sound registers for voice
if a=duration variable then turn off audv0 or audv1 : a = 0 : return
a = a + 1
return

This seems like it would work, but I figured I would ask before trying it and wasting time (and bytes). Any other ideas?

Cliff

You mean like the kind of thing that the Music and Sound Editor can create? Right now it creates code using sdata, based on the Music Starter using sdata, but after the next update it will also create code that uses regular data if you want that will look like this:

   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *
   rem  *  Music Starter using data
   rem  *
   rem  *  Based on code posted in the Ballblazer thread at AtariAge:
   rem  *  http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=130990&view=findpost&p=1615280
   rem  *
   rem  *  Code adapted by Duane Alan Hahn (Random Terrain)
   rem  *
   rem  *  Explanation:
   rem  *  This has a 256-byte limitation.
   rem  *
   rem  *****************************************************


   set smartbranching on


   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Create aliases for variables
   rem  *****************************************************
   dim duration=a
   dim rand16=z


   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Variable descriptions
   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  duration - how long each note plays
   rem  *  x - data counter
   rem  *  rand16 - makes better random numbers


   rem  *  Volume off
   AUDV0=0
   AUDV1=0


   rem  *  Initialize duration and data counter
   duration = 1 : x = 0




   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *
   rem  *  Main game loop starts here.
   rem  *
   rem  *****************************************************
MainLoop

   goto GetMusic
GotMusic

   drawscreen

   goto MainLoop




   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Music
   rem  *****************************************************
GetMusic

   rem  *  Check for end of current note
   duration = duration - 1
   if duration>0 then GotMusic


   rem  *  Retrieve channel 0 data
   temp4 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp5 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp6 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1


   rem  *  Check for end of data
   if temp4=255 then duration = 1 : x = 0 : goto GotMusic


   rem  *  Play channel 0
   AUDV0 = temp4
   AUDC0 = temp5
   AUDF0 = temp6


   rem  *  Retrieve channel 1 data
   temp4 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp5 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp6 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1


   rem  *  Play channel 1
   AUDV1 = temp4
   AUDC1 = temp5
   AUDF1 = temp6


   rem  *  Set duration
   duration = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   goto GotMusic




   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Music Data Block
   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Format:
   rem  *  v,c,f (channel 0)
   rem  *  v,c,f (channel 1) 
   rem  *  d
   rem  *
   rem  *  Explanation:
   rem  *  v - volume (0 to 15)
   rem  *  c - control [a.k.a. tone, voice, and distortion] (0 to 15)
   rem  *  f - frequency (0 to 31)
   rem  *  d - duration


   data musicData
   8,12,29
   0,0,0
   15
   2,12,29
   0,0,0
   8
   8,12,19
   0,0,0
   15
   2,12,19
   0,0,0
   8
   8,12,17
   0,0,0
   15
   2,12,17
   0,0,0
   8

   255
end
   goto GotMusic

Thanks. This will definitely do what I want. I was hoping to maybe reduce the data size per note to 5 being v,c,f,voice,d, but I can see potential issues with syncing the voices if I do that. Better to do it the way you have.

Have you thought about posting this to the front of the thread? This is definitely something people could use. Thanks again.

Cliff

[rpgfaker]

Atarius Maximus, on Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:23 PM, said:

Atarius Maximus, on Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:22 AM, said:

endrien, on Sat Oct 3, 2009 5:34 AM, said:

This might sound a fair bit "Noobish" but how can you combine these codes? Any time I try add missiles to movement it doesn't work..

I know your post was 5 months ago, but I can work on combining a few of the samples, yes. I just posted another sample that demonstrates how to use bankswitching.

Steve

As requested, I added another demo file (#14 in the first post) that shows how to combine a moving animated player sprite with the ability to fire in any direction, including diagonally.

Steve

Hi Steve I was playing around with this code and made an alternate version

  rem *******alternative move and fire in 8 directions + animation, variable cost = 7
  rem modification saves 18 bytes adds 1 variable & fixes player reflection
  rem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   rem Demo for moving an animated sprite that can fire a missile in any direction
   rem   
   rem   You can move around your sprite and fire in any direction.
   rem
   rem  In trying to keep this code as short as possible, I left out the following:
   rem   There is no collision detection
   rem   There are no enemies to shoot at
   rem   player movement is not restricted, you can move off of the screen
   rem   There is no defined playfield
   rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   rem  Variables
   rem
   rem     I set the inital direction of the joystick to RIGHT, so when you start
   rem     the game for the first time you're able to fire the gun before you move
   rem
   rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

   a=76   : rem player1x location
   b=50   : rem player1y location
   c{1}=0 : rem Turned on if the last location of the joystick was UP
   c{2}=0 : rem Turned on if the last location of the joystick was DOWN
   c{3}=0 : rem Turned on if the last location of the joystick was LEFT
   c{4}=1 : rem Turned on if the last location of the joystick was RIGHT
   c{5}=0 :rem Turned on if the last location of the joystick was UP+LEFT
   c{6}=0 :rem Turned on if the last location of the joystick was UP+RIGHT
   c{7}=0 :rem Turned on if the last location of the joystick was DOWN+LEFT
   c{0}=0 :rem Turned on if the last location of the joystick was DOWN+RIGHT
   e=20   : rem Counter for limiting travel of fired missile
   w=1    : rem Used to determine player reflection (REFP1)
   rem y is the animation counter
   rem t replaces the still function from original code
   rem  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
start
 rem reset animation control flag
 t = 0
 rem if reflection is switched 'on' by the w variable this keeps it in place
	if w=0 then REFP1 = 8
	if w=1 then REFP1 = 0


   rem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   rem This section sets a value for the last direction the joystick was pushed
   rem
   rem  This determines the direction the bullet will be fired later, and also
   rem  allows you to keep firing the bullet in the same direction after you
   rem  have stopped moving.
   rem
   rem  Each time you move, each of the eight possible directions of the joystick is
   rem  marked as on or off with a bit variable.
   rem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   drawscreen
   if joy0up then                c{1}=1:c{2}=0:c{3}=0:c{4}=0:c{5}=0:c{6}=0:c{7}=0:c{0}=0
   if joy0down then              c{1}=0:c{2}=1:c{3}=0:c{4}=0:c{5}=0:c{6}=0:c{7}=0:c{0}=0
   if joy0left then              c{1}=0:c{2}=0:c{3}=1:c{4}=0:c{5}=0:c{6}=0:c{7}=0:c{0}=0
   if joy0right then             c{1}=0:c{2}=0:c{3}=0:c{4}=1:c{5}=0:c{6}=0:c{7}=0:c{0}=0
   if joy0up && joy0left then    c{1}=0:c{2}=0:c{3}=0:c{4}=0:c{5}=1:c{6}=0:c{7}=0:c{0}=0
   if joy0up && joy0right then   c{1}=0:c{2}=0:c{3}=0:c{4}=0:c{5}=0:c{6}=1:c{7}=0:c{0}=0
   if joy0down && joy0left then  c{1}=0:c{2}=0:c{3}=0:c{4}=0:c{5}=0:c{6}=0:c{7}=1:c{0}=0
   if joy0down && joy0right then c{1}=0:c{2}=0:c{3}=0:c{4}=0:c{5}=0:c{6}=0:c{7}=0:c{0}=1
   rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
   rem  Set color of player sprites and missiles
   rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
   COLUP1=28
   COLUP0=28
   rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
   rem  Set initial location of player sprite
   rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
   player1x=a:player1y=b
   rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
   rem  Increase 20 to a larger number to make the bullets travel farther
   rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
   e=e+1
   if e>20 then e=0
   rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
   rem  Player Movement
   rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
   rem t control variable added to advance animation counter, w ties to reflection
   if joy0up then b=b-1 : t = 1
   if joy0down then b=b+1 : t = 1
   if joy0left then a=a-1 : t = 1 : w = 0
   if joy0right then a=a+1 : t = 1 : w = 1
   if !joy0fire then missile0x=0:missile0y=0:e=0

   rem diagonal shots
   if joy0fire && c{0} then missile0x=player1x+7+e:missile0y=player1y-3+e
   if joy0fire && c{5} then missile0x=player1x-e:missile0y=player1y-7-e
   if joy0fire && c{7} then missile0x=player1x-e:missile0y=player1y+1+e
   if joy0fire && c{6} then missile0x=player1x+7+e:missile0y=player1y-7-e

   rem left and right shots
   if joy0fire && c{3} then missile0x=player1x-e:missile0y=player1y-5
   if joy0fire && c{4} then missile0x=player1x+8+e:missile0y=player1y-5

   rem up and down shots
   if joy0fire && c{1} then missile0x=player1x+5:missile0y=player1y-10-e
   if joy0fire && c{2} then missile0x=player1x+5:missile0y=player1y+3+e

   rem if not moving go to player1 standing position
   if !joy0up && !joy0down && !joy0left && !joy0right then y=10
   rem t is the keytrap tied to joy0 directional movement if active advances animation
   if t = 1 then y=y+1
   rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
   rem Player Animation
   rem   Y is the counter for the player animation.  You can change the
   rem   animation rate by changing the 30,20,10 to a different 
   rem   sequence of numbers.
   rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
   if y=30 then player1:
        000110
        100100
        110100
        011000
        000000
        %10011110
        %01100100
        010000
        011000
        111100
        011000
end
  if y=20 then player1:
        %01000000
        %01100011
        110110
        011100
        101000
        111100
        100100
        010000
        011000
        111100
        011000
end
  if y=10 then player1:
        011100
        011000
        011000
        100000
        %01011010
        %01111100
        100100
        010000
        011000
        111100
        011000
end
 rem if animation counter reaches 30 reset it
   if y>30 then y=0
 rem repeat loop
 goto start

[esplonky]

can someone show me Completely how to do sound with more than just a source code file? (like show me where to put things and how they work and stuff) i looked at the sound source code from RT but it was confusing.

[Jr. Pac]

Thanks!!!