GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 (edited) It appears that NASA are so strapped for cash that they used an Atari Jaguar as the brains in their latest Mars rover. To see for yourself try this :- rover.zip Fire to start, d-pad to move, keys 1, 2 and 3 for special effects . Best seen on real hardware. Have fun! I forgot to mention load at 0x802000 and run from 0x802000 for Skunk and Alpine owners. Some screenshots (what you see on your machine/emulator will most likely be different ) :- Edit: Added screenshots. Edited August 18, 2012 by GroovyBee 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh3-rg Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 GB, for someone who has been coding the Jag for about a month, that's pretty damn impressive stuff (I have to say this here even though I've already been telling you as much when testing it). How about a .BIN or .ABS so we can make a ULS of it, too? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 I forgot to say a big thanks to sh3-rg and nonner242 for all their testing as well. Many thanks guys. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Nice work Mr Bee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 GB, for someone who has been coding the Jag for about a month, that's pretty damn impressive stuff (I have to say this here even though I've already been telling you as much when testing it). Thanks for the compliment and the testing. Its good for few evenings work this week (as you know ). This GPU coded version is also a vast improvement over the pure "C" version. Yet more proof that the jag is hard to program. How about a .BIN or .ABS so we can make a ULS of it, too? A BJL version should be possible. I'll build one later. I still haven't experimented with what Jag compatible executable images VBCC can create. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 Nice work Mr Bee Thanks for the compliment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrant Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Took me a moment to work out where to put it. Upload to $802000, go from $802000 That's really pretty gorgeous. Nice and smooth and very impressive for only a months worth of getting used to the system. Actually scratch that, it's impressive regardless of experience. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 Took me a moment to work out where to put it. Upload to $802000, go from $802000 Yep! Sorry I should have put that info in with my first post. That's really pretty gorgeous. Nice and smooth and very impressive for only a months worth of getting used to the system. Thanks for the compliment. I started it earlier this week so its only a few evenings work in reality. I'd say that the jag is definitely a fun machine to code on in either "C", 68K/GPU/DSP assembler. Actually scratch that, it's impressive regardless of experience. Thanks for the compliment. I think the fractal algorithm and colour palette helps a lot with the way it looks. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 BJL version here :- rover.bjl.zip Load at 0x4000, run at 0x4000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sauron Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 That is pretty impressive. Nice work! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Yup, nice work GroovyBee ! Here's how it looks like : GroovyBee : I can do a video capture if you like. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyChris Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Yes, please. Yup, nice work GroovyBee ! Here's how it looks like : GroovyBee : I can do a video capture if you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 That is pretty impressive. Nice work! Thanks for the compliment. Yup, nice work GroovyBee ! Thanks for the compliment. Here's how it looks like : Thanks for the image. The landscape is generated randomly every time you run it. GroovyBee : I can do a video capture if you like. Please do if you have the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felyx Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 (edited) Thanks for sharing this Groovybee. I will try to put it on CD-R when I am back home to explore Mars with my old black kitty Edited August 18, 2012 by Felyx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion_ Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Impressive effect, nice looking and very smooth ! loading is a bit long, maybe you could precompute and pack it if you plan to make a game with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felyx Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 (edited) Where did you learn to rove? It should be one the the most expensive NASA program ever: they bought Jag CD Edited August 18, 2012 by Felyx 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 Impressive effect, nice looking and very smooth ! Thanks for the compliment. loading is a bit long, maybe you could precompute and pack it if you plan to make a game with it Its not really "loading" data. The landscape is generated as a fractal every time you run it. I use the delay before you press the fire button as the seed for the random number generator. If I revisit the code then some of the landscape generation phases can be moved onto the GPU to get the total processing time down. The smoothing and scaling phases would be the best and easiest candidates for that. I don't have any plans to make a game with it at this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Where did you learn to rove? It should be one the the most expensive NASA program ever: they bought Jag CD IT SO CUTE! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaztee Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Everybody stop complimenting Groovy!! The more we massage his ego, the bigger the beard gets now go generate me some spice worms on mars 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 Everybody stop complimenting Groovy!! The more we massage his ego, the bigger the beard gets now go generate me some spice worms on mars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh3-rg Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 IT SO CUTE! the nasa logo on the cybermorph cart was the cherry on the icing for me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Looks like a virtual colonoscopy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Looks like a virtual colonoscopy. Now I will never want to play this demo again.. Well...... not without think of you buddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Hey... just try Microcosm on any platform... it's really a wild ride up the tailpipe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Loved it, but then I love anything to do with Mars. So after a long time away from tinkering with the Jag (busy overseas) I set up my Jag and Skunkboard to check out this awesome mix of the Jaguar and Mars. That was really great. Now that you have the generator for mountains, make Rescue on Fractilus (Or Behind Jaggy Lines) for the Jaguar. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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