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[tmont]

Rom Hunter, on Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:37 AM, said:

I promise I won't.
You made some great music, Tommy.
I even got the change to listen to your "beyond 6000 points" music.

Thanks! Writing music for the 2600 is a bit interesting, and forces creativity down your throat, since you only have certain notes to work with and not all of them are in tune with each other. Kind of a fun challenge, though. I think I actually rewrote each tune about 6-8 times before my brother and I were satisfied. Glad you enjoyed it!

[cd-w]

Great game - really addictive. I hope it went down a storm at the OVGE? Is the PAL version complete yet, as I would love to buy a copy on a cart?

A quick coding question for you. How do you make the fish appear and disappear smoothly at the edges of the screen? It looks like you are not using PF0, so I presume you need to mask off the sprites according to how much is visible, or is there a more obvious solution that I am missing? The reason I ask is that I need to do something similar in Hunchy.

Thanks
Chris

[batari]

cd-w, on Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:50 AM, said:

Great game - really addictive.  I hope it went down a storm at the OVGE?  Is the PAL version complete yet, as I would love to buy a copy on a cart?

A quick coding question for you.  How do you make the fish appear and disappear smoothly at the edges of the screen?  It looks like you are not using PF0, so I presume you need to mask off the sprites according to how much is visible, or is there a more obvious solution that I am missing?  The reason I ask is that I need to do something similar in Hunchy.

Thanks
Chris

My guess would be a black playfield and bit 2 of CTRLPF set, though there are certainly other ways.

[vdub_bobby]

batari, on Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:20 AM, said:

cd-w, on Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:50 AM, said:

Great game - really addictive.  I hope it went down a storm at the OVGE?  Is the PAL version complete yet, as I would love to buy a copy on a cart?

A quick coding question for you.  How do you make the fish appear and disappear smoothly at the edges of the screen?  It looks like you are not using PF0, so I presume you need to mask off the sprites according to how much is visible, or is there a more obvious solution that I am missing?  The reason I ask is that I need to do something similar in Hunchy.

Thanks
Chris

My guess would be a black playfield and bit 2 of CTRLPF set, though there are certainly other ways.

Yeah, that's basically it: reflected playfield with PF0=%11110000 and black. Masks quite nicely. I did agonize over this quite a bit, by the way. I felt, and still feel to some extent, that just blanking one fifth of the screen is kind of cheap and is cheating the user. I couldn't come up with a better way, though - all the other methods I came up with were worse in the end, I decided.

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

I think it's a good solution, I'm doing that in Star Fire as well.

In Seawolf I have a rather complex mechanism to move the 24 pixel wide ships out of the screen, where I tweak the sprite pointers accordingly so that there's always only 1 sprite moving out. So I need only very few hide-pixels at the edge of the screen.

But with your big fishes it's almost impossible to do anything else besides your solution, that's both affordable and still looking elegant.

Greetings,
Manuel

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Special data for larger fishes would have helped too decrease the blanking area.

E.g. quad size fishes: head and tail 4 bits data -> only 50% of current blanking area

But IMO it is looking good as it is.

[Rom Hunter]

Eh...

http://www.atarimani...VERSION_ID=2234

[vdub_bobby]

Rom Hunter, on Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:12 AM, said:

Eh...

http://www.atarimani...VERSION_ID=2234

D'oh!

Wait! The exclamation point! It makes all the difference!

[vdub_bobby]

cd-w, on Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:50 AM, said:

Is the PAL version complete yet, as I would love to buy a copy on a cart?

PAL version is coming along - mostly done, actually (thanks to Thomas Jentzsch).

Only real work left is increasing the tempo of some of the music and double-checking the colors. Should be done pretty soon, I hope.

-bob

[djmips]

vdub_bobby, on Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:16 AM, said:

Rom Hunter, on Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:12 AM, said:

Eh...

http://www.atarimani...VERSION_ID=2234

D'oh!

Wait! The exclamation point! It makes all the difference!

Right, I ate at this fish! restaurant in London, and the exclamation point! It made all the difference.

[Rom Hunter]

vdub_bobby, on Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:16 PM, said:

Wait!  The exclamation point!  It makes all the difference! 

Right you are.

Go for the real thing,
Go for: Go Fish!

Edited by Rom Hunter, Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:54 AM.

[vdub_bobby]

Resurrecting this thread to say...I *finally* finished the PAL version.

Many many thanks to Thomas J for his help with this.

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•  gofishPALfinal.bin   8K   224 downloads

[vdub_bobby]

One more bump to this thread to say that the final PAL and NTSC versions are now available for download (through the rarity guide - I don't believe the final NTSC rom is posted in this thread) and for sale through the AA store.

[andrew338]

On gofish06082005.zip ( 5.39k ) Number of downloads: 35


My first time playing score was 594

[atwwong]

I've ordered GoFish! from the AtariAge Store. IMHO it is a really fun game that's worth having to play on real hardware.

Cheers,
Tony

[vdub_bobby]

atwwong, on Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:57 AM, said:

I've ordered GoFish! from the AtariAge Store. IMHO it is a really fun game that's worth having to play on real hardware.

Cheers,
Tony

Thanks!

[andrew338]

andrew338, on Fri Dec 9, 2005 2:44 PM, said:

On gofish06082005.zip ( 5.39k ) Number of downloads: 35


My first time playing score was 594

I will have you know, this game is much fun!! Great job!!

[vdub_bobby]

andrew338, on Mon Jan 2, 2006 5:45 AM, said:

I will have you know, this game is much fun!! Great job!!

Thanks!