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- Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:24 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- Replies: 600
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Tried the latest version. The high-score music sounds much better now. I think the standard "Game Over"-music would also sound better with volume 4. Sadly entering a high-score with the paddle is still impossible. It still flickers between two letters mostly, although on some positions it ...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 4:05 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- Replies: 600
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
I took a quick look and I only ever set the volume to 8 so unless it maybe getting set higher - but not intentionally at least. Btw, it sounded fine on my 1702 monitor will check again tomorrow on real hardware. edit: Checked in VICE monitor and volume only gets set to 8. You're right. Wonder where...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:34 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- Replies: 600
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- paddle-jitter is worse on PAL than on NTSC, but not really nice in either case. You can see the Vaus flickering in the videos. Would really appreciate the dejittering-technique reactivated - entering the high-score is impossible with paddles right now. The paddle-area from A to Z seems very small...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:02 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- Replies: 600
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Gave 1533 a test run on my PAL- and NTSC-VIC with paddles just now. Videos below. What I noticed: - paddle-jitter is worse on PAL than on NTSC, but not really nice in either case. You can see the Vaus flickering in the videos. Would really appreciate the dejittering-technique reactivated - entering ...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:28 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Change screen size and position at a mid point?
- Replies: 4
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Re: Change screen size and position at a mid point?
Is it possible to change the Vic registers that affect the width (chars) of the screen and start horizontal position at a fixed point down the screen? Eg like a split screen you see on other computers. What I would like to achieve is a small fixed area at the top or bottom for a score and status ar...
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 4:04 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- Replies: 600
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Tiny observation. On the spaceship intro with the flickering.... There are a couple of pixels flickering that shouldn't where the right engines meet the body. Can you tweak the image so that those pixels become part of the hull and thus don't flicker as it spoils the effect. I still think raster-ef...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 1:36 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- Replies: 600
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Also perhaps you can make the engines flicker on the spaceship on the intro screen - that would add a lot and should be fairly easy without doing the full animation? I've found that it's anything but. It'd take cycle-exact raster interrupts because the border colour has to be used. I really don't f...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 4:33 am
- Forum: Emulation and Cross Development
- Topic: Colour blue on NTSC VICs.
- Replies: 17
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Re: Colour blue on NTSC VICs.
These are two pics from my NTSC-VIC-20 connected via S-Video to a LCD-TV for comparison:
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:33 am
- Forum: Emulation and Cross Development
- Topic: Colour blue on NTSC VICs.
- Replies: 17
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Re: Colour blue on NTSC VICs.
Just checked. Green looks like Cyan on my VICE as well. That is only with the internal palette, however. If you choose "Mike (NTSC)" as external palette in Settings-Display-VIC-VIC palette it looks more like green, and this palette was derived my Mike from the results from my personal NTSC...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 3:28 am
- Forum: Emulation and Cross Development
- Topic: Colour blue on NTSC VICs.
- Replies: 17
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Re: Colour blue on NTSC VICs.
This is not happening in VICE for me. Both WinVICE 3.2 and the latest GTK VICE 3.7.1
Bricks are blue as they should be. You picture shows them as a blue outline with red stripes inside? Strange. I'd suggest deleting the vice.ini and starting fresh.
Bricks are blue as they should be. You picture shows them as a blue outline with red stripes inside? Strange. I'd suggest deleting the vice.ini and starting fresh.
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 4:31 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- Replies: 600
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Tried to un-jitter things but I lack logical reasoning. Messed up the game play. Some years back when Mike did his Paddlescope-program I de-jittered two Paddle-games (Clowns and Super Smash), but never released them. The idea is to take the middle of two consecutive values and use this as the new P...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:05 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- Replies: 600
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Other problems? Well, all the work with doing a cartridge, like the PCB and the cases, burning ROMs, putting it all together and the shipping and so on. Are Mega Cart, Penultimate and FE3 are the most commonly used expansions? I would guess so. There seem to be a lot self-built FE3 around in German...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 9:21 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- Replies: 600
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
You could do VIC-sound on one side of the tape and samples on the other. Not a big fan of the samples myself, it's nice that it works but the VIC-sounds are much clearer and otherwise just as good. Regarding expansions: Nowadays most expanders will provide +35K (Penultimate, FE3, MegaCart). So that ...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 5:04 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
- Replies: 600
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone
Not sure if requiring +37K is a good idea, I can only think UltiMem supporting this. I tried the 1388 demo in VICE with only +35K and it was still working as far as I can see. What is the 37K used for? ($9800-$9fff) If space is tight, I would propose two different versions for normal music and sampl...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 10:02 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: I/O0 and illegal opcodes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2642
Re: I/O0 and illegal opcodes
I'd say if the illegal opcodes are used unintentionally and serve no true purpose (i.e. making code faster or more compact) they warrant a crack/hack to improve them. Otherwise I only know of VIC Doom that uses illegals, and Kweepa already regrets this since the effect seems minor. One of my graphic...