In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

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Ola H wrote:... Almost all of my old Vic and C64 tapes still work fine. ...
From the hundreds of tapes I have which use the standard Commodore (unaccelerated) tape protocol, only one or two of my old VIC and C64 tapes have become unreadable.
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awesome!
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beamrider wrote:awesome!
Screenshot of arcade on MAME -> gimp -> VIC-SDD -> asm export :D
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*hums intro music* ;)
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In the title screen keys H, J, K and L move the display area. :)
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Why not stick to the cursor keys convention like all the commodore cartridges and Tank Battalion ;) ?
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beamrider wrote:Why not stick to the cursor keys convention like all the commodore cartridges and Tank Battalion ;) ?
Just carrying on the Unix tradition. ;) Saves me shift key detection.
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I think the original Commodore-carts only allowed to move right and down with the cursor-keys, just flipping over to leftmost/top-position after a sensible number of moves. HJKL is probably something no one would ever guess without looking at the manual, but they might try using the cursor-keys as with the Commodore-carts.

Oh and what is "VIC-SDD -> asm-export" which you used to convert the MAME-screenshot?
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tokra wrote:I think the original Commodore-carts only allowed to move right and down with the cursor-keys, just flipping over to leftmost/top-position after a sensible number of moves. HJKL is probably something no one would ever guess without looking at the manual, but they might try using the cursor-keys as with the Commodore-carts.
All in all I think HJKL is much more comfortable to use instead of WASD. Should be configurable anyway. :)
tokra wrote:Oh and what is "VIC-SDD -> asm-export" which you used to convert the MAME-screenshot?
beamrider's VIC screen designer did the job. Cleared the charset, selected the right colours and an area on the screen, laid them out as columns, then went into "edit as bitmap", selected all of the selection, picked the screen shot and pasted it into the charset without dithering. Then I did a regular export and slapped the new charset data into the game. Very nice.
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Now one can pause the game by pressing 'P'. 'N' will make it jump to the next level. :)

Still, nothing has been optimised, so you can safely assume that things will get smoother. :D

When the hardware check shows up, Arukanoido actually scans memory for add-ons. (There'll be one for the Ultimem expansion at least.)
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Why allow cheats takes away the challenge..?
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beamrider wrote:Why allow cheats takes away the challenge..?
tokra would crack the secret pass phrase anyway. ;) Well, there'll be add-on #2 (level selection) then. :D
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