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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:52 am
by eslapion
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.

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 5:20 am
by pixel
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Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 9:00 am
by beamrider
awesome!

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 10:59 am
by pixel
beamrider wrote:awesome!
Screenshot of arcade on MAME -> gimp -> VIC-SDD -> asm export :D

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:58 am
by Mayhem
*hums intro music* ;)

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:55 pm
by pixel
In the title screen keys H, J, K and L move the display area. :)

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:11 am
by beamrider
Why not stick to the cursor keys convention like all the commodore cartridges and Tank Battalion ;) ?

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:42 am
by pixel
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.

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 5:23 pm
by tokra
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?

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 5:47 am
by pixel
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.

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:01 am
by pixel
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.)

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:12 am
by beamrider
Why allow cheats takes away the challenge..?

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:40 am
by pixel
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

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 7:48 am
by pixel
Pre-orders are on for those who want a low serial number. Please mail pixel ät hugbox puntur org to get on The List and please do not forget about including your address.

Price tag: £10 + £3.40 shipping (world-wide) for tape + TAP file for VICs with at least +24K, joystick or paddle. Carefully assembled by the innocent hands of a destitute child. (Mine. I don't have kids.)

Targeted release date is the 1st of September, 2017 – then payments can be made via UK wire, PayPal or Bitcoin. No VAT. The NTSC version might show up a little bit later.

Have a lovely weekend!

Re: In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:07 am
by mrr19121970
I pre-ordered 1X99742553518070C