In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

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Did someone mention a cartridge? Interested :)
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Seriously, this is one of the most polished and well-made games ever to grace the VIC.

It's also (obviously) the best arcade conversion. The attention to detail is nothing short of amazing.

Well done!

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Wow! Thanks!
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mingle wrote: The attention to detail is nothing short of amazing.
I wish that was true. In the end it was reading ROM disassemblies and MAME source code and having more luck than brains. Better start crowd-funding the most ridiculous copyright infringement trial of the century if this game is really making waves as you say. ;)
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I want a cart! :D
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So do I, a must-have for sure :D
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New demo (rev. 671):

* PAL and NTSC versions have been merged..
* Key F toggles between portrait and landscape format in the title screen. Probably not so useful with NTSC. Keys H, J, K and L help with centering as usual.
* Faster and cleaner sprite engine.
* Lots of stupid bugs removed and very new ones hiding somewhere added.

Don't know if the WAV file works with PAL machines yet.
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Revision 685 is out with most known issues fixed so far.
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New revision 688 is there, playing the original arcade round intro tune as a demo before entering the regular round intro. Could somebody please check if this really sounds that harsh on a real machine? The tune has been reduced to 1212 B and is being decompressed in real time. Very CPU-intensive.
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Added cart images with rev. 693 and started an archive here: http://hugbox.org/pixel/software/vic-20/arukanoido/. :)
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In the title screen of revision 705 one use the M key to add some arcade digis. In-game digis don't work yet.
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Rev. 712 now has most of the original arcade digisounds in the +24K version. Switch to those by pressing M in the title screen. They're all being decrunched at real time which is probably OK when there's no ball moving.

Would like to up to +32K.... :)
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pixel wrote:Would like to up to +32K.... :)
If you intend to go for a cartridge release, there's no reason not to.

You'd need the autostart signature in BLK5 anyhow, and using a single 27256 EPROM instead of one 27128 and 2764 (or even 3x 2764) definitely reduces cost.
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Mike wrote:
pixel wrote:Would like to up to +32K.... :)
If you intend to go for a cartridge release, there's no reason not to.

You'd need the autostart signature in BLK5 anyhow, and using a single 27256 EPROM instead of one 27128 and 2764 (or even 3x 2764) definitely reduces cost.
Oh, it'll be 32k anyway. :)
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pixel wrote:Would like to up to +32K.... :)
Definitely do that, 32K expansions are much more common than 24K-setups.
From "Doom" we learned that some people have problems with expanding their VIC with 35K-expansions though.

If you want the cart to sell in numbers however you could also use the 3K-area and even the 2K IO2/3-area, making the game +37K effectively. Only people with UltiMem or very special expansions would be able to soft-load such a game into their VIC-20 :mrgreen:

Obviously, I want a copy either way.

Oh, and a ingame-help-screen, explaining all those options (move screen, digis or not, ...) would be helpful.
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