Denial

arukanoido.demo.1680.zip The game play seems to be sorted with this one. It's fast but not (really) unfair. It's just like the original. Everyone knows it, no-one ever got through it. Obstacles are 100pts now. For the love of novelty this version of the tape loader takes the apex at 6kbit/s but I d...

While I am a fan of physical releases, I'm not really a fan of tapes. Also, on the physical releases I own I still use the digital version (either in emulation or through SD2IEC-drive on the VIC). Everyone wants carts, aye? But anything that is a cool project and/or looks cool in the cupboard will ...

Made it to round 12. Sometimes one can see blocks just disappearing. That's the only bug left I can spot. The game is too slow at times which can be fixed. Didn't feel like ~15 minutes really.

copei.de/arukanoido1666.webm

I have a couple of questions whose answers might spark some optimism. * Who wants tapes in the first place? Anyone? OK. * What do you want on them? * Who wants their own thing on tape (no matter what platform)? * What do you expect to get with an order? (What would make you feel right home, what wou...

There's temptation to just plug in all levels, put the repo back online and to bugger off. The sensible part of the rest of my mind screams: "No tapes!".

Yeah, personally I think a high-score saving or keyboard input is a luxury I can easily live without. Much prefer to see it released sooner. But… but… I can barely stop test-playing it anyway! :/ arukanoido.demo.1658.zip These tape files load at 5536 bits/s (PAL). Sadly not the right thing for dura...

Saving to disk would require a file selection, wouldn't it? I have no experience with saving scores.
Charset in action. (Press C in game on NTSC.)

We planned to bring on keyboard input. 8) I never understood why most Arcade-conversions go to the trouble of emulating the annoying high-score input by joystick which is just done this way on the Arcade-machines because they have no keyboard . By the way: Is the high-score table saved to disk? Pro...

beamrider wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:11 am nit-picking - but could you de-bounce the fire button for entering a letter as it easily enters two letters when you only wanted one.

Core is not bug free, I'm not hearing.
Maybe it is now… EDIT: nope.

We planned to bring on keyboard input.

Faster again. m(

beamrider wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:44 am fantastic - I can see it's got smoother even in VICE. Will try on the real metal at the weekend with paddles.

Really looking forward to the finished product.

Top line now flickering during into music, but I guess you know that.

Yes. Contributors should be quick if they want to file updates.

Headline: Sprites got faster again. ~4K left. Hardcore bug close to a kill.

Mostly running at 60fps unless the Disruption Mode with three balls comes up and/or it gets really fast.

Game intro got even worse but a couple of nasty details got sorted. (Metaphor for comparing running small businesses in Germany (left) and anywhere else (right).)

heaven6502 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:22 am So no VIC 1 tricks? Like the scanline Res vscrolling?

No. There might be some magic waiting here: https://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bu ... php?t=8733 but AFAIK things like the soft-scrolling trick are usually found by accident.

beamrider wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:07 am Nice one. Plenty smooth enough to me eyes.

Not Guinness smooth but I got the headache already. It's still buggy. Such improvements are kinda side effect of code reviews.

beamrider wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:07 am Just tiny bug introduced, leaves some detritus in the top left corner occasionally.

Thanks!